Bolnhurst, a parish in the county of Bedford, 7 miles W of St Neots station on the G.N.R., and 6 1/2 NNE of Bedford. It has a post office under St Neots; money order and telegraph office, Great Staughton. Acreage, 2334; population of the civil parish, 233; of the ecclesiastical, 223. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Ely; gross value, £182 with residence. The church is a building of stone in the Early Decorated and Perpendicular styles. It was restored in 1884. the dedication of the church (St Dunstan) is the only dedication of the kind in the diocese. There is a good rood screen and a wall-painting of St Christopher, and monuments to the Franklin and Harvey families. There are some small charities.
