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Bolnhurst is a village in the civil parish of Bolnhurst and Keysoe, in the Borough of Bedford in Bedfordshire. The village is about north-northeast of Bedford and about west of St Neots. The toponym is derived from the Old English ''bula-hyrst'', meaning "wooded hill where bulls are kept". ==History== Bolnhurst grew up around the main road between Bedford and Kimbolton, Cambridgeshire. the Domesday Book of 1086 lists it as ''Bulehestre'' or ''Bolehestre''. At that time the manor was held by the Abbot of Thorney, Cambridgeshire. The Abbey retained Bolnhurst until the Dissolution of the Monasteries in the 16th century. After inclosure of the parish in 1778, Arthur Young, despite never having visited the village, described Bolnhurst as: :a wet heavy bad country very disadvantageously circumstanced respecting roads, for every way around they are almost impassable... after inclosing fell into bad hands, they laid much of it down to grass in as bad order as possible, and it has continued so ever since in as rough and ill conditioned and unprofitable a state as can be well conceived... It should seem that corn has there been lessened without making amends for the loss by ample products of new grass. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Bolnhurst」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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