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Two Besfords carried the Olympic torch in 2012: Jack past the Bowes Museum at Barnard Castle, and Siobhan at Aberystwyth.

One of the few timber-framed churches in England, St Peter’s at Besford holds a pre-Reformation rood screen, Jacobean altar rails and monuments to the Harewell and Sebright families.

Sonja Besford has published five books in Serbian and two collections of poetry in English, and is president of the Association of Serbian Writers & Artists Abroad.

Swimming correspondent for the Daily Telegraph and the Daily Mail, Pat Besford wrote the first Encyclopaedia of Swimming in 1971.

Steve Besford is an actor, playwright and screenwriter based in Leeds, writing period drama for the screen.

George Bestford was born at Bensham, Gateshead. He served in the First World War, and later moved to Pretoria where he joined the South African Police.

Built in 1926 to supply Besford Court, the water tower served as a Home Guard observation post in the Second World War and has since been the subject of a planning application.

Mary Turnbull met David Besford while he was preaching in the street. They married in 1887 and had twelve children, eight of whom survived childhood.

Janet Besford married Albert Edward Partland in 1925. In 1928, Janet gave birth to a son, also named Albert Edward Partland. The family later moved to Wakefield and Motherwell.

William James Besford, a Lowestoft trawler skipper who helped clear mines off the Belgian coast in the First World War, was lost with the Bucentaur and all her crew in 1947.