|
Heath and Reach is an English village and civil parish near the Chiltern Hills in Bedfordshire. It is two miles north of Leighton Buzzard and three miles south of Woburn and adjoins the county boundary with Buckinghamshire. The parish is bounded in the south-west by the River Ouzel, in the north-east by the A5 (Watling Street), and includes the Kings's Wood nature reserve and the famous 400 acre Rushmere Country Park woods. Heath and Reach is also home to an 18-hole golf course and a heritage narrow gauge railway. Nearby places are Leighton-Linslade, Great Brickhill and the Duke of Bedford's Woburn Abbey, Woburn Safari Park and Woburn Golf Club. There was a sizeable Roman settlement at Heath and Reach. Fragments of pottery, coins and traces of buildings were found in 1971 near Overend Green Farm, by the Roman road, Watling Street.〔http://www.bedfordshire.gov.uk/CommunityAndLiving/ArchivesAndRecordOffice/CommunityArchives/HeathandReach/RomanHeathAndReach.aspx〕〔http://www.heathandreach.org.uk/Home/History/tabid/64/Default.aspx.〕 The village was originally two small hamlets in the Royal Manor of Leighton〔Bedfordshire Archives and Records Service. http://www.bedfordshire.gov.uk/CommunityAndLiving/ArchivesAndRecordOffice/CommunityArchives/LeightonBuzzard/TheRoyalManorOfLeightonBuzzard.aspx〕 and records are found for Heath in 1220 and Reach in 1216.〔Heath and Reach parish web site: http://www.heathandreach.org.uk〕 The village boasts several grade II listed properties.〔Bedfordshire Archives and Records Service. http://www.bedfordshire.gov.uk/CommunityAndLiving/ArchivesAndRecordOffice/CommunityArchives/HeathandReach/71And73WoburnRoadHeathAndReach.aspx〕 St Leonard's Church dates from the 1580s.〔from Heath and Reach.com. http://www.heathandreach.com〕 The village lower school (St Leonard's ) was founded in 1846 by the Church of England and educates 100 children aged 4–9. There is also an on-site pre-school. The school's key stage 1 results remain "exceptionally above national and local averages"〔http://schoolsfinder.direct.gov.uk/8233310/school-profile/〕 and Ofsted rate the school Outstanding.〔Osted assessment November 2011. http://www.ofsted.gov.uk/inspection-reports/find-inspection-report/provider/ELS/109618〕 There are 570 homes in the parish and besides the church, school and golf club, the village has two pubs and a village store and a thriving Royal British Legion.〔 There is also a sports association with tennis courts, playing fields and pavilion and a separate recreation ground. The village benefits from several community use meadows, public footpaths and bridleways. There is also a fishing club at the ten acre Jones Lakes.〔http://www.fisharound.net/location/public/3965/Jones-Pit〕 The highest point is 480 feet above sea level〔Bedfordshire Archives and Records Service. http://www.bedfordshire.gov.uk/CommunityAndLiving/ArchivesAndRecordOffice/CommunityArchives/HeathandReach/TheParishOfHeathAndReachInGeneral.aspx〕 'Heath and Reach' is also included in the postal addresses of properties in nearby Old Linslade. Leighton Buzzard Golf Club lies just to the southwest of the village. Located 40 miles from central London, the village is 6 miles from the M1 and benefits from a non-stop fast train from nearby Leighton Buzzard to Euston in just 32 minutes. The village's annual Pancake Race organised every Shrove Tuesday by the Heath and Reach Women's Institute is a major feature of village life, raising money for charity.〔''Leighton Buzzard Observer'' newspaper, http://www.leightonbuzzardonline.co.uk/news/videos/ready_steady_toss_1_2483871, retrieved 21Mar11.〕 'Heath and Reach' is also the name of the constituency that sends a Councillor to Central Bedfordshire Council. It includes the villages of Heath and Reach, Hockliffe, Eggington, Stanbridge, Tilsworth, Tebworth and Wingfield. The seat has been held by Councillor Mark Versallion since its creation in 2011.〔http://www.markversallion.com/〕〔http://www.centralbedfordshire.gov.uk/modgov/mgUserInfo.aspx?UID=5231〕 ==History== 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「Heath and Reach」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
|