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Ampthill

Ampthill is a town and civil parish in the district of , England. It lies between Bedford and . At the 2021 census it had a population of 8,825.
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  • Type: Town with 20,000 residents
  • Description: town in Central Bedfordshire, England, UK
  • Also known as: “Ampthill, Bedfordshire”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Houghton House and Kings Wood and Glebe Meadows, Houghton Conquest.

Manor estate
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is a ruined mansion house in the parish of , . It is a Grade I listed building, positioned above the surrounding countryside, and commands excellent views.

Nature reserve
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Kings Wood and Glebe Meadows is a 36.1-hectare Site of Special Scientific Interest in in . A local teenage boy, Peter Sollars, discovered many rich communities of plants there, including a number of rare species, e.g.

Church
Photo: Jose Baptista de Sousa, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Flitwick and Maulden.

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is a town in . It is located about ten miles south of Bedford and ten miles north of .

Village
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is a village and civil parish located in the county of . The village is located 1.5 miles east of Ampthill and about 8 miles south of .

Locality
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is a hamlet located in the district of , England. The settlement is close to the larger villages of and . forms part of the Houghton Conquest civil parish.

Ampthill

Latitude
52.0319° or 52° 1′ 55″ north
Longitude
-0.4929° or 0° 29′ 35″ west
Population
20,000
Elevation
312 feet (95 metres)
United Nations Location Code
GB AMP
Open location code
9C4X2GJ4+QR
Open­Street­Map ID
node 27457675
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­town
Geo­Names ID
2657337
Wiki­data ID
Q477350
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In Other Languages

From Asturian to Welsh—“Ampthill” goes by many names.
  • Asturian: “Ampthill”
  • Basque: “Ampthill”
  • Bengali: “এমা্পঠিল”
  • Cebuano: “Ampthill (kapital sa distrito)”
  • Cebuano: “Ampthill”
  • Chinese: “Ampthill”
  • Chinese: “安特希尔”
  • Chinese: “安特希爾”
  • Dutch: “Ampthill”
  • French: “Ampthill”
  • German: “Ampthill”
  • Gujarati: “એમ્પ્થહિલ”
  • Hungarian: “Ampthill”
  • Irish: “Ampthill”
  • Italian: “Ampthill”
  • Japanese: “アムティル”
  • Japanese: “アンプシル”
  • Kannada: “ಆಂಪ್ಥಿಲ್”
  • Korean: “앰프씰”
  • Ladin: “Ampthill”
  • Lithuanian: “Ampthilis”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Ampthill”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Ampthill”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Ampthill”
  • Norwegian: “Ampthill”
  • Persian: “امپتیل”
  • Polish: “Ampthill”
  • Portuguese: “Ampthill”
  • Romanian: “Ampthill”
  • Russian: “Амптхилл”
  • South Azerbaijani: “امپتیل”
  • Spanish: “Ampthill”
  • Swedish: “Ampthill (distriktshuvudort)”
  • Swedish: “Ampthill”
  • Tamil: “ஆம்ப்த்தில்”
  • Telugu: “యాంప్థిల్”
  • Turkish: “Ampthill”
  • Ukrainian: “Амптгілл”
  • Urdu: “امپتھل”
  • Volapük: “Ampthill”
  • Welsh: “Ampthill”

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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Ampthill”. Photo: RobThinks, CC BY-SA 4.0.