Ridgmont, Bedfordshire

Description
Ridgmont or Ridgemount, a village and a parish in Beds. The village stands 1 mile SSE of a station of its own name on the Bedford and Bletchley branch of the L. & N.W.R., and 2 1/2 miles NE of Woburn, and has a post office under Bletchley station; money order and telegraph office, Aspley Guise. The parish comprises 2308 acres; population, 658. There is a parish council consisting of seven members. The manor and most of the land belong to the Duke of Bedford. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Ely; net value, £220 with residence. Patron, the Duke of Bedford. The church was built in 1855, and is a handsome building of stone in the Decorated style, erected from designs by the late Sir G. Gilbert Scott, R.A., consisting of chancel, nave, aisles, and western tower with spire. The old church is now used only for burials. There are a large Baptist chapel and a handsome Wesleyan one.