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Upper and Lower Gravenhurst were once known as Over and Under Gravenhurst. Men worked very hard in the fields taking the ‘Bedfordshire Clanger’ to eat cold. This was a suet dumpling with meat, potatoes and onion at one end and jam at the other.
One father of seven children was allowed to eat everything but the meat, which he took home for his wife to re-make another dumpling. On the third day he was allowed to eat all of it.
Probably the oldest house is over 500 years old and known as ‘Little Ion’. Originally one house it was mentioned in the Domesday Book, it was divided into four cottages for the Ion Farm workers. Apparently, one family rife with fleas when they vacated their cottage it was fumigated, sulphur candles were placed in an upstairs room and as they burnt low they set fire to the oak beams below and caused a fire. ‘Little Ion’ was once more restored as a single house.
Location: 10m SE of Bedford off A6
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