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Bedfordshire

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Bedfordshire
Image:EnglandBedfordshire.png
Geography
Status: Ceremonial & (smaller) Administrative County
Region: East of England
Area:
- Total
- Admin. council
- Admin. area
Ranked 41st
1,235 km²
Ranked 34th
1,192 km²
Admin HQ: Bedford
GB-BDF
ONS code: 09
NUTS 3: UKH22
Demographics
Population:
- Total (2002 est.)
- Density
- Admin. council
- Admin. pop.
Ranked 36th
570,831
462 / km²
Ranked 32nd
384,652
Ethnicity: 86.3% White
8.3% S.Asian
2.9% Afro-Carib.
Politics
Arms of Bedfordshire County Council

Bedfordshire County Council
http://www.bedfordshire.gov.uk/
Executive: Conservative
Members of Parliament
Alistair Burt, Patrick Hall, Kelvin Hopkins, Margaret Moran, Jonathan Sayeed, Andrew Selous
Districts
Image:Bedfordshire_Ceremonial_Numbered.png
  1. Bedford
  2. Mid Bedfordshire
  3. South Bedfordshire
  4. Luton (Unitary)

Bedfordshire is a county in England. Its county town is Bedford. It borders on the ceremonial counties of Cambridgeshire, Northamptonshire, Buckinghamshire (with Milton Keynes), and Hertfordshire . Luton was part of Bedfordshire until 1997 when it was made a unitary authority, it is however still part of Bedfordshire for some ceremonial purposes.

The county motto is "Constant Be".

The highest point is 801 feet on the Dunstable Downs.

Bedfordshire was historically divided into the nine hundredss of Barford, Biggleswade, Clifton, Flitt, Manshead, Redbournestoke, Stodden, Willey, Wixamtree, along with the liberty and borough of Bedford.

Table of contents
1 Towns and villages
2 Places of interest
3 External links

Towns and villages

Places of interest

External links


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