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Bedford was a market town for the surrounding agricultural region from the early Middle Ages. [citation needed] The Anglo-Saxon King Offa of Mercia was buried in the town in 796; [4] this is believed to be in his new minster, now the Church of St Paul, [5] or on the banks of the Great Ouse where his tomb was soon lost to the river.
St Paul's Church, Bedford is a Church of England parish church and the Civic Church of the Borough of Bedford and the County of Bedfordshire. Located on St Paul's Square, it is a large medieval and later church of cathedral proportions and spire. St Paul's was the church of the BBC during the Second World War. [citation needed]
The Bedford flag on display at the Bedford Free Public Library is the oldest known surviving intact battle flag in the United States. It is celebrated for having been the first U.S. flag flown during the American Revolutionary War, as it is believed to have been carried by Nathaniel Page's outfit of Minutemen to the Old North Bridge in Concord for the Battle of Concord on April 19, 1775.
Bedford, Luton, Basildon, Peterborough, Southend-on-Sea, Norwich, Ipswich, Colchester, Chelmsford and Cambridge are the region's most populous settlements. [8] According to Census 2021 , Peterborough is the largest city in the East of England at 215,000.
The Bedford built-up-area is the 71st largest in the United Kingdom and also includes Kempston and Biddenham. [3] Away from the Bedford built-up area the borough includes a large rural area with many villages. 75% of the borough's population live in the Bedford built-up and the five large villages which surround it, which makes up slightly less ...
Bedford is a borough, spa town, and the county seat of Bedford County in the U.S. state of Pennsylvania. [4] It is located 102 miles (164 km) west of Harrisburg, the state capital, and 107 miles (172 km) east of Pittsburgh. Bedford's population was 2,865 at the 2020 census. [5] [6]
Google Maps' location tracking is regarded by some as a threat to users' privacy, with Dylan Tweney of VentureBeat writing in August 2014 that "Google is probably logging your location, step by step, via Google Maps", and linked users to Google's location history map, which "lets you see the path you've traced for any given day that your ...
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