Bedfordshire Guide, Meaning , Facts, Information and Description
| Bedfordshire | |
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| Geography | |
| Status: | Ceremonial & (smaller) Administrative County |
| Region: | East of England |
| Area: - Total - Admin. council - Admin. area | Ranked 41st 1,235 km² Ranked 34th 1,192 km² |
| Admin HQ: | Bedford |
| : | GB-BDF |
| ONS code: | 09 |
| NUTS 3: | UKH22 |
| Demographics | |
| Population: - Total (2002 est.) - Density - Admin. council - Admin. pop. | Ranked 36th 570,831 462 / km² Ranked 32nd 384,652 |
| Ethnicity: | 86.3% White 8.3% S.Asian 2.9% Afro-Carib. |
| Politics | |
Bedfordshire County Council http://www.bedfordshire.gov.uk/ | |
| Executive: | Conservative |
| Members of Parliament | |
| Alistair Burt, Patrick Hall, Kelvin Hopkins, Margaret Moran, Jonathan Sayeed, Andrew Selous | |
| Districts | |
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Bedfordshire is a county in England. Its county town is Bedford. It borders on the ceremonial counties of Cambridgeshire, Northamptonshire, Buckinghamshire (with Milton Keynes), and Hertfordshire . Luton was part of Bedfordshire until 1997 when it was made a unitary authority, it is however still part of Bedfordshire for some ceremonial purposes.
The county motto is "Constant Be".
The first recorded use of the name was in 1011 as Bedanfordscir meanig Beda's ford or river crossing.
The highest point is 801 feet on the Dunstable Downs.
Bedfordshire was historically divided into the nine hundredss of Barford, Biggleswade, Clifton, Flitt, Manshead, Redbournestoke, Stodden, Willey, Wixamtree, along with the liberty and borough of Bedford.
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2 Places of interest 3 External links |
Towns and villages
For the full list see List of places in Bedfordshire.
- Ampthill
- Barton-le-Clay, Bedford, Biggleswade, Beeston
- Clophill, Cranfield
- Dunstable
- Eversholt
- Flitwick
- Hockliffe
- Kempston
- Leighton Buzzard
- Luton
- Marston Moretaine, Millbrook
- Old Warden
- Sandy, Shefford, Stotfold, Studham
- Toddington
- Whipsnade, Woburn, Woburn Sands
Places of interest
- Chicksands
- Dunstable Downs
- Elstow Moot Hall
- Leighton Buzzard Railway, a heritage railway
- Luton Hoo
- RSPB The Lodge, Sandy
- Stevington Windmill
- Stewartby Lake
- Whipsnade Wildlife Park
- Woburn Abbey
- Woburn Wildlife Park
External links
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