February 27, 2009 by admin ·
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February 27, 2009 by admin ·
The Village of Totternhoe is situated in the southwest corner of the county near to the Buckinghamshire and Hertfordshire borders in the lowlands of the Dunstable Downs Chiltern Hills near to Whipsnade Zoo and can be located under the OS Map Ref SP 985215. Other villages close by are Eaton Bray, Edlesborough and Stanbridge with the town of Dunstable about 3 miles away.
Population of the village is about 1090 mainly older people of which some have lived in the Village or close by all their lives, others moving in to the area over the years.
The village name has been recorded as long ago as 1086 when it was pronounced from 2 words and spelt ‘Totene’ ’hou’ meaning a ‘look out house’ and a’spur’. The ‘Knolls’ which form part of the village escarpment at one end had at one time been a fine Norman Keep and was considered a fine Motte and Bailey castle.
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August 25, 2008 by admin ·
The roughly circular parish of Thrupp encompasses the villages of Thrupp and Brimscombe and the hamlets of Upper and Lower Bourne, Lypiatt, Quarhouse, the Heavens and Claypits.
The villages of Thrupp and Brimscombe straddle the Thames and Severn canal, the River Frome and the A419.
There is no church within the Parish.
The Parish is divided ecclesiastically between the Parishes of the Holy Trinity, Stroud, Holy Trinity, Brimscombe, and Christ Church, Chalford.
The congregation from the old Mission Chapel worship regularly at the Social Centre.
A bus runs every Sunday for worshippers at Holy Trinity, Stroud and the Roman Catholic Church at Beeches Green.
The Methodists worship at their chapel in Brimscombe Hill and the Brimscombe Parish Church is situated in the same locality. Other Church of England members worship at Christ Church, Chalford.
The Great Western Railway line bounds the parish on the western side.
The boundary then follows the Toadsmoor road in the East, cutting across farmland to Lypiatt and down to Claypits and crosses the canal to the railway line.
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