Willington, Bedfordshire
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Willington is a village in the English county of Bedfordshire. It is west of Moggerhanger on the road from Sandy to Bedford. The village is recorded in the Domesday Book as Welitone and as Wilitona in c. 1150, from Old English tun (homestead) among the willows.[1]
Willington is home to 16th century Willington Dovecote & Stables, both now owned by the National Trust.
Willington used to have a railway station on the Sandy to Bedford railway line, now part of the NCR 51 national cycle route.
[edit] References
The geographic coordinates are from the Ordnance Survey.
- ^ Eilert Ekwall, The Concise Oxford Dictionary of English Place-Names (4th ed.), p. 520.
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- Willington dovecote and stables at the National Trust.
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- Bedfordshire and Luton Archives and Records Service: Willington pages
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