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Bedfordshire (/ ˈ b ɛ d f ər d ʃ ɪər,-ʃ ər /; abbreviated Beds) is a ceremonial county in the East of England.It is bordered by Northamptonshire to the north, Cambridgeshire to the north-east, Hertfordshire to the south and the south-east, and Buckinghamshire to the west.
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 the county town of Bedfordshire and seat of the Borough of Bedford local government district.
This is a list of all the towns and villages in the county of Bedfordshire. See the List of Bedfordshire settlements by population for a list sorted by population.
The East of England includes the ceremonial counties of Bedfordshire, Cambridgeshire, Essex, Hertfordshire, Norfolk and Suffolk, of which Essex has the highest population. [6] The northern part of the region, namely consisting of Norfolk, Suffolk and Cambridgeshire, is popularly known as East Anglia .
Bedfordshire was one of the counties that largely supported the Roundheads during the English Civil War. Nearby St Albans in Hertfordshire was the headquarters of the Roundheads, and troops were occasionally stationed at Dunstable.
Central Bedfordshire was created on 1 April 2009 as part of a structural reform of local government in Bedfordshire. The Bedfordshire County Council and all the district councils in the county were abolished, with new unitary authorities created providing the services which had been previously delivered by both the district and county councils.
Bedfordshire Police's Det Ch Insp Sam Khanna said: "This was a truly tragic and shocking case in which three innocent members of the same family have been brutally killed by their son and brother."
This is a list of all the settlements in Bedfordshire.Population figures are taken from the 2001 UK census and 2011 UK Census.Population figures are given for the civil parishes as well as urban areas.