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Bedfordshire
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Bedfordshire

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Locator map for the English administrative region of Bedfordshire.

County of south central England (since April 1997 Luton has been a separate unitary authority).

Area

1,192 sq km/460 sq mi

Towns and cities

Bedford (administrative headquarters), Dunstable

Physical

the Great Ouse River and its tributary, the Ivel; the county is low lying with the Chiltern Hills in the southwest

Features

Whipsnade Wild Animal Park, near Dunstable (200 ha/494 acres), belonging to the London Zoological Society; Woburn Abbey(18th century), seat of the duke of Bedford; Cranfield Institute of Technology

Agriculture

cereals (especially wheat and barley); vegetables

Industries

agricultural machinery; cement manufacture (using local chalk); clay; electrical goods; gravel; motor vehicles and parts; packaging; sand; brickworks at Stewartby

Population

(2001) 381,600

Famous people

John Bunyan, John Howard, Joseph Paxton

Topography

Bedfordshire is bounded on the northeast by Cambridgeshire; on the northwest by Northamptonshire and Milton Keynes; on the west by Buckinghamshire; and on the southeast by Luton and Hertfordshire. The Great Ouse, flowing through the centre of the county to the east, is navigable to Little Barford.


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The vultures' decline fueled rising populations of feral dogs, says Rhys Green of the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds in Bedfordshire, England.
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