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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.
Bedfordshire is the location of a number of notable UK and international companies who have either headquarters or major bases in the county. Autoglass, Boxclever and Charles Wells Pubs are all based in Bedford, while the Kier Group and Kingspan Timber Solutions are based in Sandy, and Jordans Cereals are based in Biggleswade.
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.
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 was laid out as a town and the county seat of Lawrence County, Indiana, United States around 1825.The original county seat was in Palestine, four miles to the south, but was moved, at the urging of the legislature, to a new location as the original location near the White River was deemed unhealthy because of malaria spread by mosquitoes.
The population of the East of England region in 2022 was 6,398,497. [3] 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.
Bedford County is a United States county located in the Piedmont region of the Commonwealth of Virginia. Its county seat is the town of Bedford , which was an independent city from 1968 until rejoining the county in 2013.
Bedford County is a county in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. As of the 2020 census, the population was 47,577. [2] The county seat is Bedford. [3] The county is part of the Southwest Pennsylvania region of the state. [a]