This group of nine houses and six flats were built on land given by the Duke of Bedford to the council in the late 1940’s. They are now private residences. In 1949, Joy Atkins moved into No. 2 when she got married.
Behind the (once) council houses in Bedford Close there used to be a foundry which moved to Aylesbury early in the last century. Once called ‘Short Lane’, Claypits Lane had a Blacksmith, Mr Pluckhouse, who operated here in about 1780 with a Mr Blackwell.