BEDFORD

Jack's Reference Book for Home and Office : An Encyclopaedia of General Information: General Information · 1909 · p. 3

the county town of Bed for dire is a well-built town on the Great use, 50 miles N.N.W. of London. It ites back to early times, but its present portance is due to its educational stitutions, which owe their origin to a ft made by Sir W. Harpur in 1561; ypulation over 36,000. ‘The county noted for ita market-garden a. [s. 66]