Little Barford is a village

Village

A village is a clustered human settlement or community, larger than a hamlet with the population ranging from a few hundred to a few thousand , Though often located in rural areas, the term urban village is also applied to certain urban neighbourhoods, such as the West Village in Manhattan, New...

 and civil parish located in Bedfordshire

Bedfordshire

Bedfordshire is a ceremonial county of historic origin in England that forms part of the East of England region.It borders Cambridgeshire to the north-east, Northamptonshire to the north, Buckinghamshire to the west and Hertfordshire to the south-east....

, England

England

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. It lies on the county boundary with Cambridgeshire

Cambridgeshire

Cambridgeshire is a county in England, bordering Lincolnshire to the north, Norfolk to the northeast, Suffolk to the east, Essex and Hertfordshire to the south, and Bedfordshire and Northamptonshire to the west...

, adjacent to the town of St Neots

St Neots

St Neots is a town and civil parish with a population of 26,356 people. It lies on the River Great Ouse in Huntingdonshire District, approximately north of central London, and is the largest town in Cambridgeshire . The town is named after the Cornish monk St...

. The village itself is very small and is close to the east bank of the River Great Ouse

River Great Ouse

The Great Ouse is a river in the east of England. At long, it is the fourth-longest river in the United Kingdom. The river has been important for navigation, and for draining the low-lying region through which it flows. Its course has been modified several times, with the first recorded being in...

.

The village contains a small church, a manor house

Manor house

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, several cottages and a farmhouse, while almost a kilometre away to the north is Little Barford Power Station

Little Barford Power Station

Little Barford Power Station is a 680MWe gas-fired power station just north of the village of Little Barford in Bedfordshire. It lies just south of the A428 St Neots bypass and east of the Wyboston Leisure Park. The River Great Ouse runs alongside.-History:It is built on the site of a former...

 feeding the National Grid.

The parish church

St Denys' Church, Little Barford

St Denys' Church, Little Barford, is a redundant Anglican church in the village of Little Barford, Bedfordshire, England . It has been designated by English Heritage as a Grade II* listed building, and is under the care of the Churches Conservation Trust...

 is dedicated to Saint Denys. Nicholas Rowe

Nicholas Rowe

Nicholas Rowe may refer to:*Nicholas Rowe , English dramatist and Poet Laureate*James N. Rowe, James Nicholas "Nick" Rowe, , American military officer and prisoner of war during the Vietnam War...

, the dramatic poet, was born in "Rowe's Cottage", 1673.

Artist Mike Chaplin

Mike Chaplin

Michael James Chaplin NDD, RWS, RE, FRSA is a British artist, known primarily for his work in the mediums of etching and watercolour. He was guest art expert on the Channel 4 art programme Watercolour Challenge with Hannah Gordon.-Life:Mike was born at Little Barford, to the south of St...

, known to many as resident art expert on Watercolour Challenge

Watercolour Challenge

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was born in the village in 1943.