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Dist:0.2km<br/>Housing in Elstow as photographed from the "John Bunyan Trail"
©Marcus de Figueiredo
Dist:0.5km<br/>About to pass under Wilstead Road which is also by chance the route of the local John Bunyan Trail.
©Sebastian Ballard
Dist:0.6km<br/>Taken from the John Bunyan trail near Bedford on a glorious spring day.
©michael wilson
Dist:0.8km<br/>Disused Pit filled with water
©Marcus de Figueiredo
Dist:0.8km<br/>Beautiful green belt being devoured by money hungry property developers.This new housing development in the countryside near Bedford is the countryside being 'slaughtered at the altar of greed'.
©michael wilson
Dist:1.0km<br/>This stream runs under a small bridge in the village of Elstow. It's a small village with some wonderful old buildings made famous as the birthplace of John Bunyan. He was a cleric who wrote Pilgrims Progress and was placed in Bedford Gaol for his beliefs. A postcard depicting him was sent to Terry Waite when he was held as a hostage in Beruit. Amazingly it arrived and Terry said it was an inspiration to him.
©michael wilson
Dist:1.0km<br/>The logo at the left of the sign commemorates the 1951 Festival of Britain when the Moot Hall http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/823252 in the village was restored as a contribution to the festival.
©Robin Drayton
Dist:1.0km<br/>As seen from the bridge on Wilstead Road.
©M J Richardson
Dist:1.0km<br/>The A421 runs up the right side of the photo.
©Thomas Nugent
Dist:1.0km north<br/>Looking north over Elstow and the A421.
©Thomas Nugent
Dist:1.0km west<br/>
©John Yaxley
Dist:1.0km northwest<br/>Sir Thomas Hillersden built Hillersden Mansion out of the material of the Abbey in the 1600's, using the buildings standing on the west side of the cloister.
©PAUL FARMER
Dist:1.1km northwest<br/>The once imposing entrance to Sir Thomas Hillersden's mansion, built in 1625 with stone from Elstow Abbey, adapting part of the cloister. It was dismantled between 1767 and 1781.
©M J Richardson
Dist:1.1km northwest<br/>
©PAUL FARMER
Dist:1.1km southeast<br/>The gridsquare is uninhabited, almost entirely flat and all of it looks like this. The high ground in the distance is the Greensand Ridge. Taken from the John Bunyan Trail footpath.
©David Kemp

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