Bedford
Bed·ford
geographical name \ˈbed-fərd\Bedford
geographical name (Concise Encyclopedia)City (pop., 2001: 82,488), southeast-central England. The administrative seat of Bedfordshire, it lies on the River Ouse northwest of London. It was a Roman fording station and a Saxon town. It was recaptured by the Anglo-Saxons from the Danes in 914. John Bunyan is thought to have written A Pilgrim's Progress while imprisoned there in the 17th century.
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