Kensworth, Hertfordshire

Description
Kensworth, a village and a parish in Hertfordshire. The village stands near the boundary with Beds, 3 miles SE of Dunstable station on the G.N.R., and 4 from a station of the same name on the L. & N.W.R., and has a post office under Dunstable; money order and telegraph office, Mark-yate. The parish comprises 2553 acres; population, 605. Chalk hills form much of the surface, and one of them has an altitude of 904 feet. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of St Albans; gross value, £240 with residence. Patrons, the Dean and Chapter of St Paul's. The church is Norman, has an embattled tower with five bells, and contains some interesting monuments and inscriptions, the mouldings on the Norman arches being particularly good. There is a Wesleyan chapel.