WW2/AR/CO2/2

Record of Incidents, loose bound but in the same general form as WW2/AR/CO 2/1 but also including pages headed "Warnings" detailing time given and type of warning; the material includes an index; local incidents include the following, note that reports are often confusing and contradictory and the following should be taken as a guide only:

14 Sep - 31 Dec 1940

From: 1940 To: 1940

- Lower Stondon: 8 HE bombs dropped near railway bridge on the west side of the Henlow - Shefford road; (16 Sep 1940); - Meppershall: unexploded bomb in field on south side of Meppershall Road; bomb dropped 2,300 feet east of The Smithy; (16 Sep 1940); - Henlow: unexploded bomb half a mile NW of Bird in Hand crossroads; (16 Sep 1940); - Haynes: 10 HE bombs dropped either side of A600, one unexploded bomb south of Hammer Hill, 50 yards from Dead Man's Cross; telegraph wires cut; (17 Sep 1940); - Southill: 2 HE bombs dropped in fields SW of Old Rowney Farm; (16 Sep 1940); - Lidlington: HE and incendiary bombs dropped between Rifle Range and Woburn Road; (19 Sep 1940); - Ridgmont: oil, HE and incendiary bombs dropped at Beckerings Park, damaging electricity grid main; (19 Sep 1940); - Chicksands: 9 HE and 1 oil incendiary bomb dropped at Chicksands Farm, one HE bomb striking an outside lavatory, three in a warren and the oil bomb striking the rick yard; (19 Sep 1940); - Southill: 2 unexploded bombs in field at Stanford House Farm, Clifton Road; (19 Sep 1940); - Cockayne Hatley: 3 delayed action bombs exploded in Potton Wood; (19 Sep 1940); - Pulloxhill: crashed British aircraft at Higham Bury one mile SW of church; (21 Sep 1940); - Shillington: bombs dropped at Apsley End; (22 Sep 1940); - Pulloxhill: bombs dropped at Kitchen End Farm, Pulloxhill; (22 Sep 1940); - Westoning: bombs dropped at Sampshill Farm; (22 Sep 1940); - Cranfield: 1 parachute land mine dropped near Rectory, shattering windows, damaging roofs and ceilings, including making Hartwell Farm house uninhabitable; another mine failing to explode; (24 Sep 1940); - Ridgmont: 1 HE bomb dropped at Marston Valley Brickworks; (24 Sep 1940); - Brogborough: 4 HE bombs dropped at the foot of Brogborough Hill; (24 Sep 1940); - Salford: 2 parachute land mines dropped damaging electricity cables, Braystone House, Aspley Guise and Crabtree Farm, Hulcote; (24 Sep 1940); - Hulcote: unexploded parachute mine (probably dropped 24 Sep 1940), discovered by Home Guard in Hulcote Wood and exploded causing damage to Rectory Farm, Wood End Farm, and properties in Wood End Road Cranfield and Cranfield Co-operative Stores; (13 Oct 1940); - Woburn: 2 HE bombs dropped at south end of village; (25 Sep 1940); - Potsgrove: unexploded bomb (25 Sep 1940) at Hill Farm which exploded the next day; - Leighton Buzzard/Eggington: 3 HE bombs and incendiaries dropped near RAF Stanbridge in a direct line from Leighton Buzzard Water Tower to Eggington village; damage to The Elms, Hockliffe Road, Eggington and to Briggington Nurseries, Eggington; (26 Sep 1940); - Cranfield: 2 small HE bombs dropped at RAF station; (26 Sep 1940); - Aspley Guise: 5 HE bombs near The Old House (private school) [and in The Close]; dropped from a Dornier from 500 feet; (26 Sep 1940); - Lower Stondon/Henlow: HE bombs behind villas in Station Road, Lower Stondon; one bomb failed to explode; 1 villa demolished, 2 rendered uninhabitable; gas main damaged; 2 casualties; (26 Sep 1940); - Henlow: 8 HE bombs dropped on RAF Henlow; 3 killed, 6 seriously injured, 2 slightly injured (all RAF personnel), 2 hangers damaged; (26 Sep 1940); - Caddington: unexploded bomb at Cross Bar Manor Farm, Luton Road (probably dropped 30 Aug 1940); (30 Sep 1940); - Harlington: 2 HE bombs dropped north of Harlington Station; (1 Oct 1940); - Tingrith: 1 HE and 1 oil bomb exploded at Tingrith Park lake and 1 HE bomb near Home Farm; (1 Oct 1940); - Chalgrave: 8 HE bombs and 1 oil bomb dropped in fields along Toddington Road; 3 HE bombs and 1 oil bomb dropped in fields near Chalgrave Manor, HE bombs north of Bound Way, oil bomb south of The Lane; (2 Oct 1940); - Houghton Regis: 5 HE bombs dropped on North Field, Sundon Road, Houghton Regis (2 Oct 1940); - Chalgrave: 18 HE bombs dropped including: 1 at Long Row cottages, Wingfield; 1 in field at Sleckney's Farm, Wingfield; 1 demolishing nos 8 and 9 Crabtree Cottages (nos 6 and 7 requiring later demolition), Wingfield; 2 in Sleckney's Park Field, Wingfield; 3 in Beletts Field, Wingfield; 4 at Birds Farm, Wingfield; 2 in Bakers Field, Dunkers Farm, Tebworth; (unexploded); 3 minor casualties and 1 casualty taken to hospital; (3 Oct 1940); - Barton-le-Clay: 2 delayed action bombs dropped on Green Farm, Manor Road and several at Faldo Farm (3 Oct 1940); - Higham Gobion: one delayed action, 1 oil incendiary and 2 incendiary bombs at Beecheners Farm, Higham Road (3 Oct 1940); - Silsoe: 3 delayed action bombs in fields at Upper Sampshill Farm; 2 bombs dropped near Speed the Plough Public House (3 Oct 1940); - Pulloxhill: delayed action bomb at Portobello Farm; (3 Oct 1940); - Dunstable: single plane straffed A5; one casualty (works manager at AC Sphinx); (3 Oct 1940); - Battlesden: single plane dropped 2 bombs on A5 fracturing a water main opposite pumping station; (3 Oct 1940); - Hockliffe: bombs dropped in village causing damage to 4 properties and 4 casualties including Potter's Garage and Tea Rooms (proprietor badly injured); (3 Oct 1940); - Heath & Reach: 5 HE bombs dropped near Sand House in open ground; (3 Oct 1940); - Potsgrove: unexploded bomb near A5; (3 Oct 1940); - Oakley: 12 bombs dropped near West Field Farm; (3 Oct 1940); - Tempsford: 4 HE bombs dropped north of Biggin Farm; 6 HE bombs (1 unexploded) dropped at Goslings Farm; (3 Oct 1940); - Colmworth: HE bomb dropped on Mill Road; oil incendiary bomb dropped in field near Colmworth Mill; (3 Oct 1940); - Streatley: plane flew low, dropping a grey piece of metal with a small electric motor on which was marked "ACHTUNG VERZOG ERUNGSWERK AUFZICHEN" at Bury Farm, Sharpenhoe; (3 Oct 1940); - Colmworth: crashed German Junkers 88 bomber between Netherstead and Manor Farm, 2 crew dead; (6 Oct 1940); - Whipsnade: 11 HE bombs (1 delayed action) dropped in Whipsnade Park; (6 Oct 1940); - Kensworth: 1 oil and 9 HE bombs dropped 1 mile from junction of Lynch Hill with A5, including 2 delayed action bombs, in Big Field; roof of a cottage in Bennett's Drive slightly damaged; (8 Oct 1940); - Sandy: 1 HE bomb dropped 1,000 yards north of Sandy Brickworks; (8 Oct 1940); - Wilden: 4 HE bombs dropped, 1 near Smartwick farm, the others 100 and 150 yards SE and 100 yards NW of Nag's Head Public House; (9 Oct 1940); - Colmworth: unexploded HE bomb at Rootham's Green; (9 Oct 1940); - Wootton: parachute with small metal cylinder attached dropped near Potter's Cross; (9 Oct 1940); - Mogerhanger: 10 HE bombs dropped, one near Charlton Terrace damaging cottages, bursting a water main and cutting phone wires; (9 Oct 1940); - Great Barford: HE bomb dropped 3,500 feet east of The Hoo [part of the line of bombs commencing at Mogerhanger]; (9 Oct 1940); - Clophill: 8 HE bombs dropped (1 unexploded) at Beadlow Top Farm and 2 HE bombs at Beadlow Manor Farm, one 20 feet from the back door of the farm house causing damage but no casualties; (9 Oct 1940); - Stotfold: 2 HE bombs dropped in field 3,200 feet south of Black Lion Public House near county boundary; (9 Oct 1940); - Dunton: 9 HE and 1 oil bomb dropped in a line 1,700 feet NE of New Spring Farm to 1,500 feet west of Thistley Ground Farm; (9 Oct 1940); - Willington: RAF training aircraft force landed in a field 50 yards from railway line and 400 yards west of Willington station, pilot unhurt; (10 Oct 1940); - Lidlington: 2 HE and 1 oil incendiary bombs dropped at Boughton End Farm; (10 Oct 1940); - Wymington: unexploded bomb in Nook Field, 80 yards from railway line; (10 Oct 1940); - Sutton: 1 oil and 5 HE bombs dropped between Warren Farm and Fen Farm damaging the Fen Farm and nearby cottages; (10 Oct 1940); - Stewartby: incendiary bombs dropped aound brickworks setting grass fields alight; (11 Oct 1940); - Eastcotts: 2 HE bombs dropped between Harrowden crossroads and Cardington crossroads damaging phone wires; (11 Oct 1940); - Bedford: 2 HE bombs dropped near Dust Destructor, Barkers Lane; (11 Oct 1940); - Wootton: 2 HE and 2 oil bombs droped at Hoo Fields, Wootton Green; (11 Oct 1940); - Turvey: 2 1,000lb HE bombs dropped, one 250 yards north of Turvey Station the other 250 yards west of Turvey Cottage; (13 Oct 1940); - Dunstable: incendiary bomb dropped on waste land west of Chiltern Road; (13 Oct 1940); - Studham: incendiary bomb dropped in Sexton Field; (13 Oct 1940); - Kensworth: incendiary bomb dropped in Jockey Field; (13 Oct 1940); - Totternhoe: incendiary bomb dropped on waste ground near Totternhoe Public Elementary School and put out by children; (13 Oct 1940); - Hockliffe: 3 HE bombs dropped 200 yards along Woburn Road; (13 Oct 1940); - Potsgrove: unexploded bomb found and dealt with [probably from same stick as those at Hockliffe]; (13 Oct 1940); - Sandy: 1 HE bomb dropped 100 yards north of Stone Arch and 1 on railway line 1,400 yards north of Sandy Station damaging two tracks and overhead power cables; 4 to 6 other HE bombs dropped in fields east of the line; 150 souvenir hunters were reported in the vicinity; (13 Oct 1940); - Ridgmont: 1 HE and incendiary bombs dropped in Gurney's Field near Marston Valley Brickworks; (13 Oct 1940); - Maulden: incendiary bombs dropped on Maulden Woods causing a fire; (14 Oct 1940); - Haynes: 1 oil and 3 HE bombs dropped near Oxley's Farm, Haynes West End; (14 Oct 1940); - Brogborough: HE bombs dropped (one unexploded) in field at Brogborough Hill near road to Lidlington; (14 Oct 1940); - Ampthill: HE bomb dropped 120 yards from southern entrance to Ampthill Tunnel, 1 oil and 2 HE bombs dropped near Little Park Farm; (14 Oct 1940); - Potsgrove: unexploded bomb 100 yards north of junction of Sheep Lane with A5 near Wood Cottage; (14 Oct 1940); - Toddington: HE bomb dropped at Long Lane Farm; (14 Oct 1940); - Eaton Bray: incendiary oil bomb dropped at Roberts Farm; (14 Oct 1940); - Studham: 15 incendiary bombs dropped on Studham Common; (14 Oct 1940); - Melchborne: HE bombs dropped near Melchborne Park; (16 Oct 1940); - Whipsnade: 1 oil and 4 HE bombs dropped on Whipsnade Zoo with 2 more in Dagnall [Buckinghamshire]; (16 Oct 1940); - Northill: 4 HE and 4 oil incendiary bombs dropped between Ickwell and Caldecote, one 500lb HE bomb unexploded; (16 Oct 1940); - Bedford: 1 oil and 3 HE bombs dropped around Putnoe Farm, all delayed action; (16 Oct 1940); - Streatley: HE bomb dropped 200 yards south of Barton Hill Road on Bedfordshire Hertfordshire border; (16 Oct 1940); - Shillington: 2 HE bombs and 1 oil bomb dropped on Mayfield Farm between Holwell Bury and Rosehill Farm; (16 Oct 1940); - Higham Gobion: 1 oil and 2 HE bombs dropped at Manor Farm with one delayed action bomb; (16 Oct 1940); - Keysoe: 8 HE bombs dropped at Park Farm doing slight damage to farm and cottages in Riseley Road; (16 Oct 1940); - Toddington: RAF Wellington bomber P.9276 from No.9 Squadron at Honnington [Suffolk] crashed at Old Park Farm returning from a raid over Kiel, 5 crew injured; (16 Oct 1940); - Studham: bombs dropped; (17 Oct 1940); - Woburn: unexploded bomb at Utcoate Grange Farm; (17 Oct 1940); - Milton Bryan/Battlesden: 240 or more incendiary bombs dropped in the area; (18 Oct 1940); - Battlesden: 3 HE bombs dropped in fields at Centre Farm; (18 Oct 1940); - Oakley: incendiary bombs and 2 unexploded oil bombs dropped in field at Westfield Farm; (19 Oct 1940); -Totternhoe: HE bomb dropped in Costin Field at Eaton Bray Road; (19 Oct 1940); - Heath & Reach: 25 incendiary bombs dropped; (19 Oct 1940); - Eggington: HE bomb dropped in field at Briggington, 3 cyclists on Hockliffe Road injured - A.C.Jones aged 20 and W.H.Jones aged 18 of Council Houses, Tilsworth and F.W.Elkington aged 15 of Woburn View, Hockliffe; (19 Oct 1940); - Caddington: 1 HE bomb dropped at Clay Pits Hill and 1 at Folly Lane allotments causing damage in Chaul End Road and Folly Lane; (19 Oct 1940); - Caddington: 4 incendiary bombs fell in fields at Inion's Farm; (19 Oct 1940); - Swineshead: 3 incendiary bombs dropped in Green Lane, one of them on an empty house; (19 Oct 1940); - Lower Stondon: HE and oil bombs dropped in fields west of A600 near Henlow Camp and Pool Caf; (20 Oct 1940); - Sharnbrook: 4 HE dropped at Antonie Farm; (20 Oct 1940); - Houghton Regis: 10 HE dropped on cricket field in Houghton Park; (21 Oct 1940); - Eggington: oil bomb dropped at Kitelly's Farm, oil bomb dropped at Claridge's Farm, HE bomb dropped at Innards Farm; (21 Oct 1940); - Leighton Buzzard: 5 unexploded bombs along Stanbridge Road between Marley Tiles and George & Dragon Public House; (21 Oct 1940); - Harlington/Toddington/Sundon: 5 HE dropped along railway line; (21 Oct 1940); - Eaton Bray: HE bomb dropped 400 yards north of Plough Inn and 3 oil bombs dropped at Valence End Farm; (21 Oct 1940); - Studham: 3 HE bombs dropped at Sharrett's Farm; 21 Oct 1940); - Clifton: 5 HE bombs dropped in fields near Clifton Manor, 3 HE bombs dropped 300 yards east of Sandford House and 1 unexploded bomb on Shefford Road; (21 Oct 1940); - Sandy: 1 oil and 9 HE bombs dropped west of A1 including one direct hit on railway line; (21 Oct 1940); - Hinwick: 6 HE bombs dropped along road to Podington airfield; (21 Oct 1940); - Eversholt: 2 HE bombs dropped; (21 Oct 1940); - Heath & Reach: 1 HE bomb dropped in chicken run at Pinkle Hill and 1 at bottom of Birds Hill; (22 Oct 1940); - Caddington: 1 HE bomb dropped in field opposite Piper's Farm, Aley Green; (22 Oct 1940); - Willington: 2 HE bombs dropped in field near Sheer Hatch Wood; (23 Oct 1940); - Studham: 5 unexploded HE bombs and 1 oil bomb dropped in Clements End; (24 Oct 1940); -Roxton: German Dornier 17 bomber shot down by RAF fighters and crashed near Crown Public House, Wyboston, 3 crew dead, 1 injured; (24 Oct 1940); - Bolnhurst: thatched cottage badly damaged by fire during dog fight over village [the same as that which ended in the Dornier 17 being shot down over Wyboston?]; (24 Oct 1940); - Woburn: 2 HE and several oil bombs dropped in Woburn Park near Eversholt gate and Abbey Pleasure Grounds; (24 Oct 1940); - Cardington: 2 HE and numerous incendiary bombs dropped; (25 Oct 1940); - Streatley: incendiary bombs dropped near White Hill Farm, Warden Hill; (25 Oct 1940); - Wilstead: incendiary bombs dropped near road to Haynes School; (25 Oct 1940); - Haynes: incendiary bomb dropped in Haynes Park; (25 Oct 1940); - Clophill: 2 incendiary bombs dropped near Pedley Wood; (25 Oct 1940); - Cople: HE and incendiary bombs dropped; (25 Oct 1940); - Toddington: HE bombs dropped behind Council School, near Toddington Marsh at park Close, in Cricket's Field, in Hardestone Meadow, Mill Farm and near Long Lane Farm; oil bombs dropped near Park Close, on cricket pitch in Toddington Park, Hardestone Meadow, Lower Toddington Field and near Long Lane Farm; (26 Oct 1940); -Chalgrave: incendiary bombs dropped in Tebworth; (26 Oct 1940); - Cople: HE and incendiary bombs dropped on Sheer Hatch Wood in a line from Moxhill Farm to Hillfoot Farm and between Middle Farm and Water End Farm; 2 oil bombs dropped, one at Wood End Farm and one at Middle Farm; (26 Oct 1940); - Old Warden: 2 incendiary bombs dropped in field near railway tunnel; (26 Oct 1940); - Shillington: HE bomb dropped near Rose Hill Farm; (26 Oct 1940); - Blunham: HE bombs dropped, one in Blunham Grange grounds; (30 Oct 1940); - Potton: 2 HE bombs dropped at Vicarage Farm; (30 Oct 1940); - Arlesey: 40-50 incendiary bombs dropped near Arlesey Claypits; (31 Oct 1940); - Leighton Buzzard: 1 HE and 1 oil bomb dropped near Grovebury Farm; (1 Nov 1940); - Chicksands: HE bombs dropped near Chicksands Priory, damaging the Priory by blast; (5 Nov 1940); - Totternhoe: 2 HE bombs dropped opposite Memorial Hall, Castle Hill Road, blocking the road; 2 HE bombs dropped on Poplar Farm; 1 HE bomb dropped on Combe Hill; 1 unexploded HE bomb dropped on Quarry Hill; 1 HE bomb and 2 unexploded HE bombs dropped Beggar's Hedge Field; (5 Nov 1940); - Eaton Bray: 1 HE bomb dropped on Yew Tree Farm; 5 HE bombs dropped around Middle Path; 1 HE bomb dropped in orchard of Bellows Mill; (5 Nov 1940); - Cardington: HE bomb dropped on (empty) Shelter No.55, RAF Cardington; (5 Nov 1940); - Cople: 1 HE bomb dropped in field behind Cople Vicarage; (5 Nov 1940); - Pulloxhill: 5 incendiary bombs dropped from centre of village to Westropes Farm; (5 Nov 1940); - Gravenhurst: 3 incendiary bombs dropped at Ion Farm; (5 Nov 1940); - Eversholt: incendiary bomb dropped at Rad's End; (5 Nov 1940); - Tingrith: incendiary bomb droped at Home Farm; (5 Nov 1940); - Eyeworth: 18 bombs dropped around Thistley Ground Farm including one unexploded; (6 Nov 1940); - Shillington: 2 HE bombs droped at Rosehill Farm, 5 at Mayfield Farm and 2 at Chibley Farm; (6 Nov 1940); - Eaton Bray: 6 HE bombs dropped at Hassocks Field, Park Farm; (6 Nov 1940); - Billington: 1 He bomb dropped in Charity Meadow and 1 near Stanbridge Road; (6 Nov 1940); - Toddington: 21 HE bombs dropped (1 unexploded) in fields along Harlington Road; (6 Nov 1940); - Harlington: 3 HE bombs dropped at Lee's Farm, Sundon Road; (9 Nov 1940); - Kempston Rural: 3 HE bombs dropped near Meadows Farm; (9 Nov 1940); - Cranfield: HE bomb dropped near Ayreswood Farm; (9 Nov 1940); - Houghton Conquest: 2 airburst HE bombs dropped near Great Thickthorn Farm and old windmill; (9 Nov 1940); - Pulloxhill: 3 or 4 HE bombs dropped at Kitchen End, Pulloxhill; (9 Nov 1940); - Sundon: 22 HE bombs (4 unexploded) dropped in Lime Kiln Field, Park Field and St.Mary's Church Field; (10 Nov 1940); - Caddington: 2 HE bombs dropped at Zouche's Farm, Blows Downs; (10 Nov 1940); - Eversholt: 2 HE bombs dropped 800 yards south of church; (9 Nov 1940); - Higham Gobion/Silsoe: 9-10 HE bombs dropped from West Hay Manor, Higham Gobion to Fielden House, Silsoe; (9 Nov 1940); - Marston Moretaine: 15 HE bombs, including one unexploded, dropped at Lower Shelton; (9 Nov 1940); - Langford: 1 HE dropped at Poppy Hill Farm; (10 Nov 1940); - Old Warden: 10 HE bombs dropped south of Lower Hill Farm; (9 Nov 1940); - Shillington: 9 HE bombs dropped near Holwell Bury; (13 Nov 1940); - Woburn: unexploded HE bomb dropped at Ape's Field farm; (13 Nov 1940); - Potsgrove: 1 oil and 2 HE bombs dropped at Wood Cottage; (13 Nov 1940); - Kempston: parachute mine dropped in Grange Field allotment, damaging houses in Bedford Road - injured being Trevor Stanley James of 9 Marne Street, Kempston, Mrs.Musgrave of Bedford Road and a baby, David Ham of 40 Bedford Road; (14 Nov 1940); - Turvey: 6 incendiary bombs dropped at Picts Hill; (14 Nov 1940); - Bedford: parachute mine dropped at Cox's Pits, Honey Hill Road; 9 slight casualties; (14 Nov 1940); - Shefford: incendiary bombs dropped in fields at Stanford Bury Farm; (15 Nov 1940); - Sandy: 8 HE bombs dropped in Bedford Road, St.Neots Road and Park House, causing damage; a number of incendiary bombs dropped in fields north of Sandy Station; - Aspley Guise: 6 HE bombs dropped on Wood Lane [and West Hill]; pumping station machinery out of order; 4 houses damaged; (15 Nov 1940); - Bromham/Kempston: 200 incendiary bombs dropped near Bromham House Colony and between Rushy Ford, West End Road and Hanger Wood; 1 HE bomb dropped on Kempston Wood; (15 Nov 1940) - Renhold: large number of incendiary bombs dropped; (15 Nov 1940); - Streatley: 8 HE bombs dropped at New Bedford Road South, Old Bedford Road, Grasmere Road, Waterhall Farm and Bury Farm; (16 Nov 1940); - Cardington: incendiary bombs dropped at Mill Farm; (16 Nov 1940); - Maulden: 4 HE bombs dropped at Green End, one fracturing a water main at A507; (16 Nov 1940); - Pertenhall: incendiary bombs dropped near Manor House, burning stables roof; 2 unexploded bombs found in village(16 Nov 1940); - Keysoe: 43 incendiary bombs dropped south of Keysoe Council School; (16 Nov 1940); - Eastcotts: 2 delayed action HE bombs dropped in Wood Lane; (16 Nov 1940); - Leighton Buzzard: 3 HE and about 40 incendiary bombs dropped over a wide area causing ten casualties - bombs landing in: Beaudesert; Assembly Room, Lake Street; corner of Dudley Street and Lake Street; Methodist Chapel Schoolroom; Iron Foundry; Grove Road; Grove Place; Recreation Ground; Grovebury Road; Gossard's Works; Gas Works; 26 East Street; "14 Tammas Street" [Lammas Walk?]; and Public Assistance Institute; (15 Nov 1940); - Potsgrove: HE bomb dropped near Fox & Hounds Public House; (16 Nov 1940); - Heath & Reach: HE bomb dropped; (16 Nov 1940); - Chalgrave: 10 HE bombs dropped in field between Wingfield and Tebworth; (15 Nov 1940); - Wilstead: HE bomb dropped 400 yards south of Manor Farm; (16 Nov 1940); - Toddington: HE bomb dropped at Happy Land Farm; (16 Nov 1940); - Sundon: numerous incendiary bombs dropped setting 23 Whitefield Road and a house in Fourth Avenue alight; (16 Nov 1940); - Toddington: 7 HE bombs dropped at rear of Star Public House, Chalton and between Tithe Farm and Chalton village; (16 Nov 1940); - Thurleigh: 1 HE bomb dropped at Backnoe End; (18 Nov 1940); - Riseley: 2 HE bombs dropped at Tidbury Farm, Sapwood and Great Ground; (18 Nov 1940); - Keysoe: 6 HE bombs dropped at Fourteen Acres; (18 Nov 1940); - Harrold: 1 HE bomb dropped at New Buildings Farm; (19 Nov 1940); - Harlington: 2 HE dropped at Dyers Hall; (20 Nov 1940); - Bletsoe: 2 HE bombs exploded at Castle Farm; (20 Nov 1940); - Sharnbrook: 2 HE bombs dropped near High Street; (20 Nov 1940); - Sundon: unexploded HE bomb in field at Home Farm, Taylors Lane; (19 Nov 1940); - Thurleigh: HE bomb dropped 500 yards east of Scald End Farm; (20 Nov 1940); - Blunham: HE bomb dropped near cemetery; (21 Nov 1940); - Silsoe: 8 HE bombs dropped in Wrest Park near Hawnes School; (21 Nov 1940); - Haynes: 2 HE bombs dropped at West End; 1 unexploded HE bomb at Oxleys Farm; (21 Nov 1940); - Roxton: 9 HE bombs and 2 unexploded bombs dropped at Chawston; (22 Nov 1940); - Langford: 2 HE dropped east of Methodist Chapel; damage to cottages and searchlight unit hut; (23 Nov 1940); - Odell: several incendiary bombs dropped north of Sharnbrook Road; (28 Nov 1940); - Sharnbrook: 11 incendiary bombs and one unexploded bomb dropped at Brickyard Farm; (28 Nov 1940); - Felmersham: 2 HE bombs dropped at Lord's Farm; (28 Nov 1940); - Cranfield: 20-30 incendiary bombs dropped on Leys Farm near Moulsoe Wood; (29 Nov 1940); - Bedford: bombs dropped at Houghton Field; (29 Nov 1940); - Cranfield: 4 50 lb HE dropped at Cranfield Court near airfield (one unexploded); 14 HE dropped elsewhere in Cranfield in open fields; (3 Dec 1940); - Toddington: 4 HE bombs dropped at Mill Farm; 1 HE bomb dropped at Old Park Farm; 2 HE bombs dropped at Hillside Farm; 1 HE dropped at St.Dunstan's Farm; 3 HE bombs dropped in fields near Harlington Road; properties in Harlington Road slightly damaged; (3 Dec 1940); - Blunham: 2 HE bombs dropped 400 yards west of Blunham Station, one a direct hit on the railway line; (4 Dec 1940); - Melchborne: 3 HE bombs dropped in Melchborne Park; (5 Dec 1940); - Cranfield: 2 HE bombs dropped on Cranfield airfield near Crawley Road; (5 Dec 1940); - Bolnhurst: 9 HE bombs dropped at Manor Farm, damaging farm and other buildings; (14 Dec 1940); - Colmworth: 1 HE bomb dropped 350 yards west of Channels End; (15 Dec 1940)

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Briggington Nurseries,
Marston Valley Brickworks,
AC Sphinx,
Jones, A.C.,
Jones, W.H.,
Elkington, F.W.,
Marley Tiles,
Ham, David,
Musgrave,
James, Trevor Stanley,
Gossards

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Farm, Riseley Tidbury Farm, Harrold New Buildings Farm, Bletsoe Castle Farm, Sundon Home Farm, Thurleigh Scald End Farm, cemeteries, Methodist chapels, Sharnbrook Brickyard Farm, Felmersham Lord's Farm, Cranfield Leys Farm, Toddington Hillside Farm, Toddington St.Dunstan's Farm, Bolnhurst Manor Farm, air raids over UK, MEPPERSHALL, Meppershall The Smithy, HAYNES, SOUTHILL, LIDLINGTON, RIDGMONT, CHICKSANDS, COCKAYNE HATLEY, PULLOXHILL, SHILLINGTON, WESTONING, CRANFIELD, BROGBOROUGH, SALFORD, HOLCOT, WOBURN, LEIGHTON BUZZARD, EGGINGTON, Haynes Hammer Hill, Lidlington Woburn Road, Beckerings Park, Southill Clifton Road, Pulloxhill Higham Bury, Shillington Apsley End, Aspley Guise Braystone House, ASPLEY GUISE, Holcot Wood, Cranfield Wood End Road, Eggington Hockliffe Road, Aspley Guise Old House, Aspley Guise Close, Lower Stondon, HENLOW, STONDON, Lower Stondon Station Road, CADDINGTON, Caddington Luton Road, HARLINGTON, TINGRITH, Tingrith Park, CHALGRAVE, Chalgrave Toddington Road, Chalgrave Manor, Chalgrave Bound Way, Chalgrave Lane, HOUGHTON REGIS, Houghton Regis Sundon Road, Wingfield Long Row, Wingfield, Wingfield Crabtree Cottages, Tebworth, BARTON-LE-CLAY, Barton-le-Clay Manor Road, HIGHAM GOBION, SILSOE, DUNSTABLE, BATTLESDEN, HOCKLIFFE, HEATH & REACH, Houghton Regis fields, Chalgrave fields, Heath & Reach Sand House, POTSGROVE, OAKLEY, TEMPSFORD, COLMWORTH, STREATLEY, WHIPSNADE, KENSWORTH, SANDY, WILDEN, WOOTTON, MOGERHANGER, GREAT BARFORD, CLOPHILL, STOTFOLD, DUNTON, WILLINGTON, LIDLINGTON, Colmworth Mill Road, Sharpenhoe, Whipsnade Park, Kensworth Lynch Hill, Kensworth fields, Kensworth Bennetts Drive, Roothams Green, Wootton Potters Cross, Mogerhanger Charlton Terrace, Great Barford The Hoo, WYMINGTON, Wymington fields, SUTTON, STEWARTBY, EASTCOTTS, Eastcotts Harrowden, Bedford Barkers Lane, BEDFORD, Wootton fields, TURVEY, Turvey Cottage, Dunstable Chiltern Road, STUDHAM, Studham fields, TOTTERNHOE, Hockliffe Woburn Road, RIDGMONT, Ridgmont fields, HAYNES, Haynes West End, Brogborough Hill, Potsgrove Sheep Lane, AMPTHILL, Wootton Green, TODDINGTON, EATON BRAY, MELCHBOURNE, NORTHILL, Ickwell, Caldecote, SHILLINGTON, KEYSOE, WOBURN, MILTON BRYAN, EGGINGTON, Studham Common, Melchbourne Park, Whipsnade Zoo, Dagnall, Streatley Barton Hill Road, Holwell Bury, Keysoe Riseley Road, Honington, Kiel, Totternhoe fields, Eggington Briggington Cottages, Caddington Clay Pits Hill, Caddington Folly Lane, Caddington Chaul End Road, Eggington Hockliffe Road, SWINESHEAD, SHARNBROOK, LEIGHTON BUZZARD, SUNDON, CLIFTON, PODINGTON, Hinwick, EVERSHOLT, WILLINGTON, ROXTON, BOLNHURST, CARDINGTON, Swineshead Green Lane, Houghton Regis Houghton Park, Leighton Buzzard Stanbridge Road, Clifton House, Clifton Sandford House, Clifton Shefford Road, Heath & Reach Pinkle Hill, Heath & Reach Birds Hill, Aley Green, Willington Sheer Hatch Wood, Studham Clements End, Wyboston, Woburn Park, Warden Hill, WILSHAMSTEAD, COPLE, OLD WARDEN, BLUNHAM, POTTON, ARLESEY, CHICKSANDS, Haynes Park, Clophill Pedley Wood, Toddington Marsh, Toddington Park Close, Toddington fields, Blunham Grange, Chicksands Priory (house), Totternhoe Combe Hill, Totternhoe Quarry Hill, Totternhoe Castle Hill Road, Eaton Bray Middle Path, Eaton Bray Bellows Mill, GRAVENHURST, Ion, EYEWORTH, BILLINGTON, KEMPSTON RURAL, CRANFIELD, MARSTON MORETAINE, LANGFORD, Billington fields, Billington Stanbridge Road, Toddington Harlington Road, Harlington Sundon Road, Pulloxhill Kitchen End, Sundon fields, Blows Downs, Higham Gobion West Hay Manor, Silsoe Fielden House, Marston Moretaine Shelton, KEMPSTON, Kempston Bedford Road, Kempston Marne Street, Pictshill, Bedford Honey Hill Road, Sandy Bedford Road, Sandy St.Neots Road, Aspley Guise Wood Lane, Aspley Guise West Hill, Bromham House, Kempston Rural West End Road, Kempston Rural Hanger Wood, Kempston Wood, Luton New Bedford Road, Luton Old Bedford Road, Luton Grasmere Road, Maulden Green End, PERTENHALL, Pertenhall Manor (house), Cotton End Wood Lane, Leighton Buzzard Beaudesert, Leighton Buzzard Lake Street, Leighton Buzzard Dudley Street, Leighton Buzzard Grove Road, Leighton Buzzard Grove Place, Leighton Buzzard Grovebury Road, Leighton Buzzard Lammas Walk, Leighton Buzzard East Street, HARROLD, ODELL, FELMERSHAM, BLETSOE, Sundon Whitefield Road, Sundon Fourth Avenue, Chalton, Backnoe End, Riseley fields, Keysoe fields, Harlington Dyers Hall, Sharnbrook High Street, Sundon Taylors Lane, Wrest Park, Haynes West End, Chawston, Bedford fields, Cranfield Cranfield Court, Melchbourne Park, Channels End