Henlow

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Henlow

Total population

3,084

Coordinates52.03°, -0.29°

Demographic figures from UK Office for National Statistics. Overview below cites Wikipedia and may reference a different year.

Overview

Henlow is a village and civil parish in the Central Bedfordshire district of the county of Bedfordshire, England, about 11 miles (18 km) south-east of the county town of Bedford. The name Henlow is believed to derive from the old English henna hlaw, meaning in old English "hill of birds" or “hill frequented by birds”.

Geography

Coordinates & boundaries from the US Census TIGER/Line shapefiles.

Notable people from here

Ben Whishaw

British actor and producer (born 1980)

Dorothy Osborne

English letter writer and wife of Sir William Temple, 1st Baronet

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Charles Bunyan, Sr.

English footballer and manager (1869-1922)

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Jack Durston

English cricketer and footballer (1893-1965)

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Arthur Stewart Eve

British physicist (1862–1948)

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Edward Tilley

Mayflower passenger (1588-1620)

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Fred Titmuss

English footballer (1898-1966)

Jack Meyer

educator and cricketer (1905-1991)

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John Carlisle

British Conservative Party politician (1942-2019)

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John Tilley

Mayflower passenger (1571-1620)

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Norman Cooley

cricketer (born 1941)

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Peter Watts

Cricket player (born 1938)

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Theodore Wade-Gery

British classical scholar (1888–1972)

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Henry Samson

Mayflower passenger (1603-1685)

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Thomas Salmon

British historian and geographer

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Jim Watts

English cricketer (born 1940)

People born within ~10 km, from Wikidata (CC0). Click any name for their Wikipedia article.

Nearby places in England

• Ampthill
  8.7 mi away
• Flitwick
  8.9 mi away
• Berden
  19 mi away
• Olney
  19.4 mi away
• Hoddesdon
  22.1 mi away · pop. 20,000
• Berkhamsted
  22.1 mi away
• Bishop's Stortford
  22.4 mi away
• Tring
  22.8 mi away
• Kings Langley
  23.1 mi away
• Cheshunt
  25.3 mi away
• Borehamwood
  26 mi away
• Waltham Cross
  26.3 mi away

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Geography & sun

Elevation, sunrise/sunset and daylight from Open-Meteo. Solar climatology from NASA POWER.

Public attention

Pageview totals from the Wikimedia Pageviews API.

Books about Henlow

Henlow conservation area

Bedfordshire, Eng. County Planning Dept. · 1971

Bedfordshire parish registers

Bedfordshire (England) · 1931

Search results from Open Library.

Official Identifiers