AMPTHILL, urban district, Bedfordshire, England, 44m. N.N.W. of London by the L.M.S.R. Pop. (1931) 2,167: It lies on the southern slope of a low range of hills, in a well-wooded dis trict. The church of St. Andrew contains a monument to Richard Nicolls who received the submission of New Amster dam (later New York) in 1664, and became its first English governor. Ampthill Park became in 1818 the seat of Lord Hol land. In the park a cross marks the site of Ampthill Castle, the residence of Catherine of Aragon while her divorce from Henry VIII. was pending. Lace-makingViii. was pending. Lace-making is said to have been introduced by Catherine of Aragon, but is now practically extinct. Straw plaiting for hat-making survives to some extent, but the interests of the town are in the main purely agricultural.