Where did Captain Tom Live? Location of Bedfordshire village Marston Moretaine where Sir Tom Moore completed his famous walk

The UK is in mourning today following the death of Captain Sir Tom Moore.

His death comes ten months after he united a nation in lockdown by walking 100 lengths of his garden and raising £32.8m in the process for the NHS.

Following his efforts in the depths of the first national lockdown the 100-year-old has travelled the country, recorded a number one single, been knighted and been made an honorary colonel.

But it was an unassuming English village where Captain Sir Tom Moore’s year to remember began.

Where is Marston Moretaine?

Marston Moretaine is an English village and civil parish situated between Milton Keynes and Bedford.

The origins of the Bedfordshire village can be traced back to the tenth century where it was listed in an Anglo-Saxon charter as Mercstuninga.

The village has a population of 4,556.

Where did Captain Tom’s Birthday Walk take place?

Captain Sir Tom Moore lived in Kent for many years before moving to Bedfordshire to be with his family in 2007.

after suffering a broken hip in 2018 and requiring treatment for skin cancer of the head Captain Tom decided to embark on his fundraising effort.

He decided to walk 100 laps of his garden in Marston Moretaine before his 100th birthday to raise funds.

Sir Tom started his challenge in early April 2020 with the initial target of raising £1,000 for NHS Charities Together.

Ten days later, assisted by his walking frame, he had completed 100 laps and raised more than £20 million.

“It really is absolutely enormous isn’t it?” he said at the time.

“That sum of money is very difficult to imagine but it’s coming in so well.”

Where was Captain Tom raised?

Sir Tom was born in Keighley, West Yorkshire, on April 30 1920.

He attended Keighley Grammar School and later completed an apprenticeship as a civil engineer before joining the Army.

He enlisted into the eighth battalion of the Duke of Wellington’s Regiment (8 DWR), an infantry unit that was converted to operate Churchill tanks as part of the Royal Armoured Corps (RAC).

In 1940, he was selected for officer training and rose to the rank of captain, later being posted to 9 DWR in India.

He served and fought in the Arakan in western Burma, since renamed Rakhine State, and went with his regiment to Sumatra after the Japanese surrender.

After the war, he returned to the UK and worked as an instructor at the Armoured Fighting Vehicle School in Bovington, Dorset.

He previously made a foray into television when he appeared on gameshow Blankety Blank, hosted by Terry Wogan, in 1983.