Bedfordshire

Bedfordshire
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
ISO 3166-2:	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
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
Bedford Mid Bedfordshire South Bedfordshire 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 hundreds of Barford, Biggleswade, Clifton, Flitt, Manshead, Redbournestoke, Stodden, Willey, Wixamtree, along with the liberty and borough of Bedford.

Towns and villages

• Ampthill
• Barton-le-Clay, Bedford, Biggleswade, Beeston
• Clophill, Cranfield
• Dunstable
• Eversholt
• Flitwick
• Hockliffe
• Kempston
• Leighton Buzzard
• Marston Moretaine, Millbrook
• Old Warden
• Sandy, Shefford, Stotfold, Studham
• Toddington
• Whipsnade, Woburn, Woburn Sands

Places of interest

• Chicksands
• Dunstable Downs
• Elstow Moot Hall
• Leighton Buzzard Railway, a heritage railway
• Luton Hoo
• RSPB The Lodge, Sandy
• Stevington Windmill
• Stewartby Lake
• Whipsnade Wildlife Park
• Woburn Abbey
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