Bedfordshire

Tomb at All Saints Churchyard Turvey submitted by Jess

Bedfordshire

County town: Bedford

Other major towns: Luton and Dunstable

The smallest of the 'Shire' counties, Bedfordshire has no cities but is home to the fine market towns of Bedford, Luton, Dunstable and Leighton Buzzard, Whipsnade Park Zoo near Dunstable, the chalky downs, and Woburn Abbey, the home of the Duke of Bedford. The north of the county was mainly agricultural and the south mostly industrial, especially in the town of Luton, which is famous for hat making.

Bedfordshire was the birthplace of John Bunyan, author of 'Pilgrim's Progress' which he wrote whilst imprisoned in Bedford jail.

Register Offices

Bedfordshire District Register Office

Pilgrim Centre
20 Brickhill Drive
Bedford
MK41 7PZ

Tel: 01234 290450

Use caution if you google for this office,the only result found has a link to order a certificate online through a third party certificate supplier.The cost is £25,to ensure you are not paying more than the usual £7 fee please contact the office direct

Luton Register Office

6 George St West
Luton

Tel: 01582 722603
email: registration@luton.gov.uk

Record Office Lookup Requests

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Record Office Lookup Contacts

• Dunstable and Luton. Monthly Willow the Wisp NOT during sch hols

Cemetery Lookup Requests

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Cemetery Lookup Contacts

• Milton Keynes (25/30 mile radius) Geraldine

Links

• Library Link Bedfordshire Library

• Family History society

OPC

Local History Society

• Local History Society Gateway

Archives

• Bedfordshire Archives
• IGI Bedfordshire

• 1841-1901 census on line

• http://www.genogold.com/html/bedfordshire.html Genogold Parish Records for Bedfordshire-on going]

Family and social history

• The Bedfordshire Surnames List

• 19th Century Bedford Gaol

• Bedfordshire Workhouses

Maps & Photographs

• Bedfordshire Towns & Villages Photo Album

Countywide interest

• Bedfordshire Poll Book 1784

• Bedfordshire Poll Book 1722

• Bedfordshire Churches

• Baptist Ministers in Northamptonshire, Bedfordshire and Huntingdonshie 1753-1835

Specific Town Village interest

• Ampthill History Forum

• Eatons Community Association website covering the old village areas of Eaton Socon and Eaton Ford, once in Bedfordshire but now in Cambridgeshire. Includes old maps, photographs and transcripts of censuses, electoral rolls and BMDs

• St Mary's Church, Felmersham, Bedfordshire, Churchyard Survey 1918

• PARISH RECORDS (Gt.Barford)

• Husborne Crawley

• Index to the Leighton Buzzard Observer

• Leighton-Linslade Past Times -Formerly Leighton Buzzard and Linslade - includes Billington, Eggington, Heath & Reach, and Stanbridge

• Woburn Abbey

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