Renhold, Bedfordshire

Description
Renhold, a parish, with a straggling village, in Bedfordshire, on an affluent of the river Ouse, 3 1/2 miles NE of Bedford railway station. It has a post, money order, and telegraph office under Bedford. Acreage, 2211; population, 481. There is a parish council consisting of seven members. The manor, with Howbury Hall, a fine mansion standing in well-wooded grounds, belongs to the Polhill-Turner family. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Ely; net value, £133 with residence. The church is a building of stone in the Decorated and Perpendicular styles, consisting of chancel, nave, N aisle, S porch, and an embattled tower, which has a fine peal of bells. It was restored in 1863, and contains an altar-tomb of 1510 to W. Wayte, and four ancient marble monuments to the Polliills and the Beechers. There is an endowed school with £20 a year.