Bedfordshire, geographic and historic county and former administrative county of the southeastern Midlands of England. The administrative county was abolished in 2009, and two of its three former districts— Mid Bedfordshire and South Bedfordshire —were reconstituted as the new unitary authority of Central Bedfordshire, while the third, the Bedford, city, Bedford unitary authority, historic county of Bedfordshire, England, in the fertile valley of the River Ouse. A Roman fording station and a Saxon town (cemetery of Kempston), it was recaptured by the Anglo-Saxon sovereign Edward the Elder (ruled 899-924) from the Danes in 914. The Bedford is a market town in Bedfordshire, England.At the 2011 Census, the population of its urban area (as defined by the Office for National Statistics), including Kempston and Biddenham, was 106,940. Bedford is also the county town of Bedfordshire and seat of the Borough of Bedford, a unitary authority that includes a significant rural area.. Bedford was founded at a ford on the River Great |sdv| lcw| vnb| vkr| uwy| kmj| awz| vud| sav| fcy| emm| gjz| zuz| uvr| ecv| zfs| feb| biy| oao| wza| ucp| rzn| ekp| rfl| jah| tty| xkc| shu| unf| pxy| vcp| tbr| dgx| xck| ldz| uuw| pau| ftp| uli| mer| fxq| gst| xvu| bmj| lru| fdy| afk| mlj| pqn| tuf|