Honeydon

Staploe is a village and civil parish located in the Borough of Bedford in Bedfordshire, England. Staploe was originally a hamlet of Eaton Socon. Under the Local Government Act 1958, Eaton Socon was merged with the neighbouring town of St Neots in Cambridgeshire. Staploe was therefore created as a civil parish in 1965. The parish of Staploe includes other former parts of Eaton Socon - Duloe, Honeydon, and Upper Staploe. Bushmead Priory and the hamlet of Bushmead are also in the parish.

Upper Staploe is a hamlet located in the Borough of Bedford in the county of Bedfordshire, England. The settlement is close to Honeydon and Staploe, and forms part of the Staploe civil parish. Upper Staploe lies close to the county border with the Huntingdonshire district of Cambridgeshire.

Begwary is a small hamlet in the parish of Staploe in the Borough of Bedford, Bedfordshire, England.

Wyboston, Chawston and Colesden is a civil parish located in the Borough of Bedford in Bedfordshire, in England. The parish includes the village of Wyboston, and the smaller settlements of Chawston and Colesden. These villages used to form part of the Roxton parish, but became independent in May 2007. The small hamlet of Begwary is also within the parish. The hamlet contains Begwary Brook, a marshland nature reserve.

Colesden is a small hamlet located in the English county of Bedfordshire. At the 2011 Census, the population of the hamlet was included in the civil parish of Wyboston, Chawston and Colesden.

Chawston is a hamlet in the civil parish of Wyboston, Chawston and Colesden, a part of the Borough of Bedford in the county of Bedfordshire, England. Although mainly situated on the western side of the A1 trunk road, the settlement does have a number of residential properties on the eastern side. Chawston is some 7.5 miles (12 km) northeast of Bedford and 3.5 miles (6 km) southwest of St Neots.

Duloe is a hamlet in the English county of Bedfordshire. A former spelling of the name may be "Devylho" or "Deuylho", as seen in 1460, in a legal record.Administratively it is part of the civil parish of Staploe that, in turn, forms part of the Borough of Bedford. The nearest town is St Neots two miles to the east over the border into Cambridgeshire.

The Priory Church of Saint Mary, Bushmead, commonly called Bushmead Priory, was a monastic foundation for Augustinian Canons, located at Bushmead (a hamlet in Staploe parish) in the County of Bedfordshire in England. It is a Grade I listed building.

Royal Air Force Little Staughton or more simply RAF Little Staughton is a former Royal Air Force station located 1.7 miles (2.7 km) south of Great Staughton, Cambridgeshire and 4.2 miles (6.8 km) west of St Neots, Cambridgeshire, England.

Church of St Denys is a Grade I listed church in Colmworth, Bedfordshire, England. It became a listed building on 13 July 1964.The four stage west tower is topped by an octagonal spire with lucarnes and is supported by diagonal buttresses. There is a ring of six bells with the earliest two dated 1635. The steel frame was made in 1984.To the left of the altar is an alabaster and black marble monument to Sir William Dyer erected in 1641 by his wife, Katherine Doyley Dyer (d. 1654). It has the following verse inscription: If a large hart, joined with a noble minde Shewing true worth unto all good inclin’d If faith in friendship, justice unto all, Leave such a memory as we may call Happy, thine is; then pious marble keepe His just fame waking, though his lov’d dust sleepe. And though death can devoure all that hath breath, And monuments them selves have had a death, Nature shan’t suffer this, to ruinate, Nor time demolish’t, nor an envious fate, Rais’d by a just hand, not vain glorious pride, Who’d be concealed, wer’t modesty to hide Such an affection did so long survive The object of ’t; yet lov’d it as alive. And this greate blessing to his name doth give To make it by his tombe, and issue live. My dearest dust, could not thy hasty day Afford thy drowsy patience leave to stay One hour longer, so that we might either Have sat up or gone to bed together? But since thy finished labour hath possessed Thy weary limbs with early rest, Enjoy it sweetly, and thy widow bride Shall soon repose her by thy slumbering side, Whose business now is only to prepare My nightly dress and call to prayer. Mine eyes wax heavy, and the day grows old, The dew falls thick, my blood grows cold, Draw, draw the closed curtains and make room, My dear, my dearest dust, I come, I come.

Wyboston is a village in the English county of Bedfordshire, adjacent to the town of St Neots, on the Cambridgeshire border. The eastern part of the village is dominated by the A1 Great North Road. Approaching the Black Cat Roundabout from the Bedford direction, the parish boundary is in the centre of the A421 road. The northern junction of these roads is grade-separated. The Black Cat Roundabout is therefore partly within Wyboston parish. Wyboston is in the civil parish of Wyboston, Chawston and Colesden.The remainder of Wyboston is horticultural and agricultural as a result of the proximity of the River Great Ouse. Wyboston Lakes Resort at the edge of the village includes a golf course, hotel, spa, serviced offices and conference & training facilities. Wyboston is also the location of a conference centre owned and operated by Cambridge University's Robinson College. The public house Wait for the Waggon has closed down indefinitely. There is a service station which includes a BP garage with a Londis shop attached, Subway and a 24-hour McDonald's. The Crown Public House has a more ambitious offer, associated with a Premier Inn hotel. The Crown serves full meals as well as having a bar. It is close to the boundary with St Neots (Eaton Socon) and many passers-by will assume it is in that parish. Wyboston is the location of the Black Cat Roundabout, where the Bedford Road joins the A1 road. In the 1930s the location was the site of a cafe and fuel station, and was a notable stopping point for motorists. The name stuck for the road junction, and when the road system was improved in 2010 a black cat artwork was erected on the roundabout. Notwithstanding some vandalism, the Black Cat stands there today.

Black Cat Roundabout is on the junction between the A1 and A421 (formerly A428) Bedford road just south of St Neots. It was reconstructed in 2005-6 as part of the Great Barford bypass works to allow access to the new dual carriageway bypass. It takes its name from the garage and car repair workshop which opened in the 1920s at the junction called the Black Cat Garage. In later years the garage was converted to a nightclub and then a restaurant, before becoming derelict for many years. In the 1980s, the current large covered petrol station was opened on the site. A metal black cat sign was installed on the roundabout in January 2004, taking its shape from the cat on the original garage clock tower. During construction of the Great Barford bypass the black cat was temporarily relocated to the construction site office, before a second larger cat was returned to the roundabout upon completion in 2006. However, this sign was stolen during the summer of 2007. On 12 August 2008 it was announced that a third replacement Black Cat had been installed on the roundabout. In April 2009 the original sign was returned (albeit to a different location), accompanied by a note saying it had been found in a ditch.The roundabout can regularly be heard being referred to on traffic reports because of the major traffic jams that it causes on the A1.