Difference between revisions of "Bedfordshire"

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Tomb at All Saints Churchyard Turvey submitted by Jess

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 I have 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

Links

Library Link Bedfordshire Library

FAMILY HISTORY SOCIETY

OPC

Local History Society

Local History Society Gateway

Archives

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

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.

Eaton Socon Very useful site with online searchable census, electoral roll, marriages, burials, school register, photographs, etc.

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

PARISH RECORDS (Gt.Barford)

Husborne Crawley

Index to the Leighton Buzzard Observer

Woburn Abbey

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-'''Bedfordshire''' (abbreviated Beds) is a county in England that forms part of the East of England region.
+'''Bedfordshire''' (Beds) a county in England that is part of East England region.
 Its county town is Bedford. It borders Cambridgeshire, Northamptonshire, Buckinghamshire (with the Borough of Milton Keynes) and Hertfordshire.
-The highest elevation point is 243 metres (797 feet) on Dunstable Downs in the Chilterns.
+[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bedfordshire for more Information see wikipedia- the free encyclopedia]
-The county motto is "Constant Be", which is taken from the hymn To Be A Pilgrim by John Bunyan.
-As part of a 2002 marketing campaign, the plant conservation charity Plantlife chose the Bee Orchid as the county flower.[1]
-The traditional nickname for people from Bedfordshire is "Bedfordshire Bulldogs" or "Clangers", this last deriving from a local dish comprising a suet crust dumpling filled with meat or jam or both. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bedfordshire Information from wikipedia- the free encyclopedia]