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From
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To
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Details
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4th
Century?
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The
Romans - Pottery and pewter plate found during housing development
in 1950s. The existence of Putnoe Street may date back to Roman
times
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Pre-
10th Century
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An
unknown Anglo Saxon settler - Putta. 'Putta's hoh' - meaning
the hoh, or spur, or heel of land of Putta (Old English name)
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Pre
1066
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Anschil
(or Anshil or Ansketill), a wealthy royal thegn of King Edward
held the Manor of Putnoe at the time of the Norman Conquest.
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1066
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Pre
1086
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Ralph
Tallebosc (or Ralf Taillebois) married to Azelina, from Normandy.
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Pre
1086
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1198
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Hugh
de Beauchamp (Married in 1082 to Adeliza Matilda Tallebosc,
daughter of Ralph, in Bedford) - Listed in the Domesday Book,
first Baron of Bedford, died 1141.
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1198
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1537
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Cisterian
Abbey of Warden received Putnoe as an endowment from the de
Beauchamp family. Comprised of a grange or outlying farm of the
monastry until dissolution in 1537.
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1537
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1539
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Manor
was surrended to the Crown (King Henry VIII). Rented by
Oliver Leader in 1539.
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August
1539
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25th
November 1731
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John
and Joan Gostwick purchased from Oliver Leader the manor of
Putnoe for £760. Held by the Gostwicks of Willington until Sir
William Gostwick, the 5th Baronet.
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25th
November 1731
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1774
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Sarah
Duchess of Marlborough (Sarah Jennings) bought the manor of
Putnoe along with manors of Willington, Ravensden and Goldington
for £51,000.
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1774
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1883
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Francis
Russell, 5th Duke of Bedford
Putnoe
Farm Leased by:
Before
1841 to March 1843 - William Best
April
1843 to pre 1877 - Henry Dyott Boulton
Pre
1877 to 1885 approx. - John Horrell
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1883
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1910
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Charles
Pope, a Miller from Sandy, bought the Putnoe farm and
its 520 acres of pasture land for £25,531 from the 9th Duke
of Bedford. This was kept in the Pope family after his death in
1888 until 1910, when the land was sold in lots.
Putnoe
Farm Leased by:
1886
to 1898 - Thomas John Davies
1903
to 1910 - Charles Hartop and latterly Arthur Edwin Hartop
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1910
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1950,
61 and 69
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The
Hartop family purchased Putnoe farm in 1910 and was occupied
by Arthur Edwin Hartop. He continued to occupy the farm
until after 1939. In 1947 Putnoe farm is occupied by Jack
Hartop. Finally occupied by Harriet Zillah Hartop from
1949 until 1968. Land sold to Bedford Corporation in 1950s for
Housing Estate. Farm house demolished in 1969 to make way for
Old Peoples home and library buildings.
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1951
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1973
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Bedford
Corporation bought land in 2 phases. First phase of 220 acres
in 1951, further 228 acres in 3 stages from 1960 to 1967.
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