Upper Gravenhurst
Village in Bedfordshire, England
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Upper Gravenhurst is a village in the civil parish of Gravenhurst, in the Central Bedfordshire district of Bedfordshire, England.
| Upper Gravenhurst | |
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Cottages in Upper Gravenhurst, viewed from the churchyard next to the church | |
  Upper Gravenhurst Location within Bedfordshire | |
| OS grid reference | TL113360 |
| Civil parish | |
| Unitary authority | |
| Ceremonial county | |
| Region | |
| Country | England |
| Sovereign state | United Kingdom |
| Post town | BEDFORD |
| Postcode district | MK45 |
| Dialling code | 01462 |
| Police | Bedfordshire |
| Fire | Bedfordshire |
| Ambulance | East of England |
| UK Parliament | |
The Church of St Giles has been established in the village since the 12th Century. The first school in the village was built in 1870, today known as Gravenhurst Academy.[1]
Upper Gravenhurst and neighbouring Lower Gravenhurst were historically separate parishes. They were merged into a single civil parish called Gravenhurst in 1888.[2] At the 1881 census (the last before the abolition of the parish), Upper Gravenhurst had a population of 354.[3]
