Box End

Box End
Box End is located in Bedfordshire
Box End
Box End
Location within Bedfordshire
OS grid referenceTL0048
Civil parish
Unitary authority
Ceremonial county
Region
CountryEngland
Sovereign stateUnited Kingdom
Post townBEDFORD
Postcode districtMK43
Dialling code01234
PoliceBedfordshire
FireBedfordshire and Luton
AmbulanceEast of England
UK Parliament
List of places
UK
England
Bedfordshire
52°07′N 0°32′W / 52.12°N 00.54°W / 52.12; -00.54

Box End (or Kempston Box End) is a village in the Borough of Bedford in Bedfordshire, England. It is in the civil parish of Kempston Rural.

The settlement was one of the hamlets (or "Ends") of Kempston. Today, Box End forms part of the Kempston Rural civil parish.

Box End has a family-owned watersports and activity leisure centre.[1] The village pub, the Slaters Arms, began as a beerhouse with the first reference to it being one of six cottages settled on Thomas Mitchell and his wife Sarah Ann in 1853. It closed in December 2013.[2][3]

Box End House has been a Grade II* listed building since 1977. It is a late-16th-cenetury timber-framed house, probably originally of H-plan. The right-hand cross wing has been removed, however, and a gable end built up with stone rubble. In 1847 a new principal range was built, parallel with the original, facing south. In 1977 an early 17th-century wall painting was uncovered in a first floor room showing bull-baiting and was the main catalyst for listing the entire building.[4]

  1. ^ "Box End Park". boxendpark.com. Retrieved 28 May 2024.
  2. ^ https://www1.camra.org.uk/pubs/slaters-arms-kempston-box-end-118491).
  3. ^ "The Slaters Arms Public House Kempston Rural". bedsarchives.bedford.gov.uk. 21 June 2019.
  4. ^ https://bedsarchives.bedford.gov.uk/CommunityHistories/KempstonRural/BoxEndHouse.aspx