Miss A. V. Rickards was a Cambridge history graduate. She wrote the sections on Biggleswade and Clifton hundreds and Luton in VCH Bedford volume 2. Later publications are under her married name Mrs Hilary Jenkinson.
Volume 14:
(1931)
Contents:
'In memoriam F. A. P.-T.' [F. A. Page Turner]
'The windmills of Bedfordshire, past and present', by J. Steele Elliott. [This is a catalogue of the windmills in more than 80 parishes in Bedfordshire. It provides evidence and dates of their ...
Volume 2:
(1914)
Contents:
In memoriam C. G. C. [Clifford Gore Chambers, d. 1913]
‘The Bedfordshire wills and administrations proved at Lambeth Palace and in the archdeaconry of Huntingdon’, by F. A. Page Turner [parallel Latin transcriptions and English translations or abstracts of 23 wills ...
Volume 3:
(1916)
'Roll of the justices in eyre at Bedford, 1227,' by G. Herbert Fowler [Introduction and English translation of the roll]
'The Domesday water mills of Bedfordshire,' by W. Austin [Includes a map of their location]
'The King's larderer of Meppershall,' by Mrs. ...
Volume 8:
(1924)
Contents:
‘Stagsden and its manors’, by J. Steele Elliott [A reconstruction of the location of the manors in 1086, with a map of them and the adjoining manors.]
‘Three records of the alien priory of Grove and the manor of Leighton Buzzard’, ...
Volume 9:
(1925)
Contents:
‘The Shefford beaker’, by Cyril Fox [The beaker, dating to about 1800 BC, was found between Shefford and Campton in 1819. It is stated to be the only authentic example of a beaker-folk artefact found in the upland valley of ...
