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Bedford

Bedford is the county town and the transport, social, cultural and administrative centre of the shire-county of in the .
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Places of Interest

Highlights include Bedford Castle and The Higgins Art Gallery & Museum.

Archaeological site
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was a large medieval castle in Bedford, . Built after 1100 by Henry I, the castle played a prominent part in both the civil war of the Anarchy and the First Barons' War.

Museum
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The Higgins Art Gallery & Museum is the principal art gallery and museum in Bedford, Bedfordshire, England, run by Bedford Borough Council and the trustees of the Cecil Higgins Collection.

Railway station
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is the larger of two railway stations in the town of Bedford, in , England. It is on the Midland Main Line, which connects with the , and is the terminus of the Marston Vale line between and .

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Kempston and Castle.

Town
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is a town and civil parish in the Borough of Bedford, , , situated around 2 miles south-west of Bedford town centre. It had a population of 19,330 in the 2011 census, and forms part of the wider Bedford built-up area.

Suburb
is an electoral ward and area of Bedford, , . The area incorporates the site of and the town's historic centre including its market and High Street, as well as nearby residential streets.

Suburb
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is a civil parish and electoral ward within northern Bedford in , . The boundaries of are approximately Kimbolton Road to the east, and the old Bedford to the south, with Cemetery Hill and the Manton Heights Industrial Estate to the west.

Bedford

Latitude
52.1364° or 52° 8′ 11″ north
Longitude
-0.4675° or 0° 28′ 3″ west
Population
80,000
Elevation
98 feet (30 metres)
IATA airport code
XQD
United Nations Location Code
GB BEF
Open location code
9C4X4GPJ+HX
Open­Street­Map ID
node 4085941
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­town
Geo­Names ID
2656046
Wiki­data ID
Q208257
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Yue Chinese—“Bedford” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “بيدفورد”
  • Armenian: “Բեդֆորդ”
  • Asturian: “Bedford”
  • Basque: “Bedford”
  • Belarusian: “Бедфард”
  • Belarusian: “Бэдфард”
  • Bengali: “বােডফোর্ড”
  • Bengali: “বেডফোর্ড”
  • Catalan: “Bedford”
  • Cebuano: “Bedford (kapital sa kondado sa Hiniusang Gingharian, Inglatera, Bedford)”
  • Cebuano: “Bedford”
  • Chinese: “Bedford”
  • Chinese: “百福”
  • Chinese: “貝德福”
  • Chinese: “貝德福德”
  • Chinese: “贝德福德”
  • Czech: “Bedford”
  • Danish: “Bedford”
  • Dutch: “Bedford”
  • Esperanto: “Bedford”
  • Finnish: “Bedford”
  • French: “Bedford”
  • German: “Bedford”
  • Greek: “Μπέντφορντ”
  • Gujarati: “બેડફોર્ડ”
  • Hebrew: “בדפורד”
  • Hindi: “बेडफोर्ड”
  • Hungarian: “Bedford”
  • Icelandic: “Bedford”
  • Irish: “Bedford”
  • Italian: “Bedford”
  • Japanese: “ベッドフォード”
  • Kannada: “ಬೆಡ್ಫೋರ್ಡ್”
  • Korean: “베드퍼드”
  • Korean: “베드포드”
  • Ladin: “Bedford”
  • Latin: “Bedfordia”
  • Latvian: “Bedforda”
  • Lithuanian: “Bedfordas”
  • Lombard: “Bedford”
  • Luxembourgish: “Bedford”
  • Macedonian: “Бедфорд”
  • Malagasy: “Bedford”
  • Malay: “Bedford”
  • Maltese: “Bedford”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Bedford”
  • Moksha: “Бэдфорд”
  • Northern Frisian: “Bedford”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Bedford”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Bedford i Bedfordshire”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Bedford i England”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Bedford”
  • Norwegian: “Bedford”
  • Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Beadanford”
  • Ossetian: “Бедфорд”
  • Persian: “بدفورد، انگلستان”
  • Polish: “Bedford”
  • Portuguese: “Bedford”
  • Romanian: “Bedford”
  • Russian: “Бедфорд”
  • Serbian: “Bedford”
  • Serbian: “Бедфорд”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Bedford”
  • Silesian: “Bedford”
  • Slovak: “Bedford”
  • Slovenian: “Bedford, Anglija”
  • Slovenian: “Bedford”
  • South Azerbaijani: “بدفورد، اینگیلیس”
  • Spanish: “Bedford”
  • Swedish: “Bedford”
  • Tamil: “பெட்டிபோர்ட”
  • Tamil: “பெட்டிபோர்ட்”
  • Tatar: “Бедфорд”
  • Telugu: “బెడ్ ఫోర్డ్”
  • Telugu: “బెడ్ఫోర్డ్”
  • Turkish: “Bedford”
  • Ukrainian: “Бедфорд”
  • Urdu: “بیڈفورڈ”
  • Uzbek: “Bedford”
  • Venetian: “Bedford”
  • Vietnamese: “Bedford”
  • Volapük: “Bedford”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Bedford”
  • Welsh: “Bedford”
  • Welsh: “Rhydwely”
  • Western Frisian: “Bedford”
  • Yiddish: “בעדפארד”
  • Yue Chinese: “百福”
  • “Bedford”

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