Bedford

Bedford is the province town of Bedfordshire, England. The town has a populace of around 80,000, while the Borough of Bedford had a populace of 169,912 in mid 2017 together with Kempston. Bedford was established at a passage on the River Great Ouse, and is thought to have been the entombment place of Offa of Mercia. Bedford Castle was worked by Henry I, in spite of the fact that it was crushed in 1224.

Bedford was allowed ward status in 1165 and has been spoken to in Parliament since 1265. It is outstanding for its substantial populace of Italian descent. Bedford is on the Midland Main Line, with halting administrations to London and Brighton worked by Thameslink, and express administrations to London and the East Midlands worked by East Midlands Trains. The name of the town is thought to get from the name of a Saxon boss called Beda, and a passage crossing the River Great Ouse.

Bedford was a market town for the encompassing horticultural locale from the early Middle Ages The Anglo-Saxon King Offa of Mercia was covered in the town in 796; this is accepted to be in his new minster, now the Church of St Paul, or on the banks of the Great Ouse where his tomb was before long lost to the river. In 886 it turned into a limit town isolating Wessex and Danelaw. It was the seat of the Barony of Bedford.