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Woburn, Bedfordshire
Woburn (pronounced /'waubn/ and meaning twisted or crooked stream)〔http://www.aboutbritain.com/maps/woburn-map.asp〕 is a village and civil parish in Bedfordshire, England. It is situated about southeast of the centre of Milton Keynes, and about south of junction 13 of the M1 motorway and is a tourist attraction. At the 2011 census, it had a population of 933.
==History==
Woburn was first recorded as a hamlet in 969 and is found in the Domesday Book of 1086. It is best known as the location of Woburn Abbey (a stately home), founded by Cistercian monks in 1145 and granted to the first Earl of Bedford in 1538 after the dissolution of the monasteries, and Woburn Safari Park. The village may have been called "Woburne Chapell" in Medieval times, in order to distinguish it from the abbey.〔Plea Rolls of the Common Pleas; National Archives; CP 40 / 677, dated 1430; http://aalt.law.uh.edu/AALT1/H6/CP40no677/bCP40no677dorses/IMG_0870.htm; third entry & http://aalt.law.uh.edu/AALT1/H6/CP40no677/bCP40no677dorses/IMG_0479.htm; first entry.〕 Woburn has been burned down and rebuilt three times. A mediaeval chimney fire spread due to the prevalence of thatched roofs and closely built houses. Then, during the English Civil War, the Cavaliers burned down much of the village and in 1724 a third fire destroyed much of the town, which was re-built in the Georgian style that remains today.〔http://woburnheritagemuseum.co.uk/About%20Woburn.html〕
During the nineteenth century, Woburn was an important staging post on a nationwide coaching network. The town had 27 inns and the first 24 hour post office outside of London. However, with Woburn Sands and not Woburn being selected for a railway station, Woburn's importance attached to its strategic location decreased. The population fell from 2,100 in 1851 to 700 about a century later.
Under the 8th Duke of Bedford, a new parish church was completed in Woburn in 1868. It was equipped with a crypt beneath, which was originally intended as the burial place of the Dukes of Bedford and their family. In the end the dukes continued to use the ancient mausoleum at St Michael's, Chenies, and the crypt of St. Mary's parish church in Woburn is now used for events and meetings. The hatch through which coffins would have been lowered into the crypt is still visible.〔(Saint Mary's Church Woburn ), accessed 26 July 2015〕
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