Upper Gravenhurst

Upper Gravenhurst is a village in the civil parish of Gravenhurst, in the Central Bedfordshire district of Bedfordshire, England.

Upper Gravenhurst
Cottages in Upper Gravenhurst, viewed from the churchyard next to the church
Upper Gravenhurst Location within Bedfordshire
OS grid reference	TL113360
Civil parish	Gravenhurst
Unitary authority	Central Bedfordshire
Ceremonial county	Bedfordshire
Region	East
Country	England
Sovereign state	United Kingdom
Post town	BEDFORD
Postcode district	MK45
Dialling code	01462
Police	Bedfordshire
Fire	Bedfordshire
Ambulance	East of England
UK Parliament	Mid Bedfordshire
List of places UK England Bedfordshire 52.01141°N 0.37851°W / 52.01141; -0.37851

The Church of St Giles has been established in the village since the 12th Century. The first school in the village was built in 1870, today known as Gravenhurst Academy.^[1]

Upper Gravenhurst and neighbouring Lower Gravenhurst were historically separate parishes. They were merged into a single civil parish called Gravenhurst in 1888.^[2] At the 1881 census (the last before the abolition of the parish), Upper Gravenhurst had a population of 354.^[3]