Description
Potsgrove or Pottesgrove, a parish in Beds, 2 1/2 miles S of Woburn, and 4 1/2 S by E of Woburn Sands station on the Bedford and Bletchley branch of the L. & N.W.R. Post town and money order and telegraph office, Woburn. Acreage, 1417; population of the civil parish, 157; of the ecclesiastical, with Battlesden, 238. The Duke of Bedford is lord. of the manor and sole landowner. The living is a rectory,. annexed to the rectory of Battlesden, in the diocese of Ely; ' joint net value, £285 with residence, in the gift of the Duke of Bedford. The church is a small building in the Decorated style, consisting of chancel, nave, S porch, and a western belfry of wood. There is a Congregational chapel.
Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England and Wales, 1894-5
