What is "bedford"

n. 1 The county town of Bedfordshire, England 2 A truck manufactured by the Bedford company, a subsidiary company of Vauxhall Motors. 3 A city in Indiana 4 A city in Iowa 5 A city in Kentucky 6 A town in Massachusetts 7 A town in New Hampshire 8 Extremely affluent Westchester County town in New York. 9 A community in Nova Scotia, Canada 10 A city in Ohio 11 A borough and county in Pennsylvania 12 A city and township in Quebec, Canada 13 A town in Eastern Cape, South Africa 14 A city in Texas 15 A town and county in Virginia 16 A CDP in Wyoming

Bedford is the county town of Bedfordshire, England.

• Bedford (UK Parliament constituency), related parliamentary constituency
• Borough of Bedford, the local council for Bedford and surrounding villages in north Bedfordshire

Bedford may also refer to:

Bedford is the county town of Bedfordshire, England. It had a population of 81,635 in 2011.

Bedford was founded at a ford on the River Great Ouse, and is thought to have been the burial place of Offa of Mercia. Bedford Castle was built by Henry I, although it was destroyed in 1224. Bedford was granted borough status in 1165 and has been represented in Parliament since 1265. It is well known for its large population of Italian descent, and also an increasingly large Punjabi population, and is home to the largest Sikh Gurdwara in the UK outside London.

Bedford is on the Midland Main Line, with stopping services to London and Brighton operated by Thameslink, and express services to London and the East Midlands operated by East Midlands Trains.

Bedford is a provincial electoral district in Nova Scotia, Canada, that elects one member of the Nova Scotia House of Assembly.

Its current Member of the Legislative Assembly is Kelly Regan.

The electoral district was formed in 2003, and consists mostly of the previous district of Bedford-Fall River and one third of Halifax Bedford Basin. It comprises most of Bedford - all of the community southeast of the Bicentennial Highway.

The district is notable for the electoral loss of Liberal leader Francis MacKenzie, in the 2006 election. MacKenzie attempted to win the seat in 2006 for the Nova Scotia Liberal Party. The party polled less than 24% across the province. He lost by more than 800 votes to Len Goucher.

With the electoral boundary changes announced on September 12, 2012, Bedford-Birch Cove was renamed 'Bedford'. The area of Kearney Lake and Birch Cove moved to Clayton Park West.

Bedford is a constituency represented in the House of Commons of the UK Parliament since 2010 by Richard Fuller of the Conservative Party.

Bedford is an English surname. Notable people with the surname include:

• Brian Bedford, English actor
• David Bedford (1937–2011), British musician
• David Bedford (athlete), British athlete
• Francis Bedford (photographer) (1816–1894), English photographer
• Francis Donkin Bedford (1864–1954), English book illustrator
• Francis Octavius Bedford (1784–1858), English architect
• Fred Bedford, English footballer
• Harry Bedford (footballer), British footballer
• Harry Bedford (cricketer), English cricketer
• Harry Bedford (politician), New Zealand politician
• Ian Bedford (1930–1966), English cricketer
• Jan Bedford (born 1945), Australian gymnast
• James Bedford, psychologist and the first person ever cryonically preserved
• John Bedford, British industrialist
• Luke Bedford, British composer
• Mark Bedford, bassist
• Martyn Bedford, British author
• Paddy Bedford, Australian artist
• Peter Bedford (born 1947), Australian rules footballer and cricketer
• Sybille Bedford, author
• Walter Bedford, English cricketer
• Douglas William Bedford, (1930-), Englishman living in Wales, all round heroic gentleman, father and grandfather.

Category:English-language surnames