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Flitwick

Flitwick is a small town set in the heart of Bedfordshire and is the home to many interesting features, such as Flitwick moor, Flitwick Manor and Flitwick Mill. There has been a settlement on the site since 4000bc and Flitwick has since been occupied by Romans and Saxons. The Romans where the first occupants to really establish Flitwick with the building of the Roman road linking Ermine Street and Watling Street. Today that road is better known as Windmill Road. After the Romans, the Saxons moved into Flitwick building farms near the sites now occupied by Flitwick Manor and Flitwick Mill.

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In more recent times it is claimed that Flitwick moor was the first place to bottle tonic water with “Flitwick Water” securing the highest award from nine scientific judges at the National Health Society's exhibition in 1885. It has also been the site of peat extraction for many centuries up until the 1960s. Today the moor is a site of special scientific interest being largest area of wetland in Bedfordshire.