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Bedford (inhabited place) |
Coordinates: |
| Lat: 52 08 00 N degrees minutes |
Lat: 52.1333 decimal degrees |
| Long: 000 27 00 W degrees minutes |
Long: -0.4500 decimal degrees |
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Note: Located in River Great Ouse valley; first mentioned in 571, when Cuthwulf defeated Britons; burned by King Canute in 1015; was refuge for Puritans during the 17th-century Puritan Revolution; John Bunyan was imprisoned here for 12 years; noted for St. Paul's Cathedral and Bunyan Meeting House (1850); Bedford Museum is on site of the Norman castle; Cecil Higgins Art Gallery located here. |
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| Bedford (preferred,C,V,English,U)
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| Bedanforda (H,O)
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| Bedcanforda (H,O)
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| Bedeford (H,O,Anglo-Saxon,U,N)
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............ | recorded in the Domesday Book in 1086 |
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Bedford (inhabited place) (P) |
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Mercia (historical region) (P,H) |
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Bedford (inhabited place) (P,H) |
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| inhabited place (preferred, C) |
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as early as the Paleolithic Age |
| town (C) |
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| county seat (C) |
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| agricultural center (C) |
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| industrial center (C) |
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| transportation center (C) |
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| regional capital (C) |
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