Bedfordshire

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Bedfordshire

County of south central England

Area:

1,192 sq km/460 sq mi

Towns and Cities:

Bedford (administrative headquarters), Dunstable

Physical:

The Great Ouse river and its tributary, the Ivel; the county is low lying with the Chiltern Hills in the southwest

Features:

Whipsnade Zoo, near Dunstable (200 ha/494 acres), belonging to the London Zoological Society; Woburn Abbey, seat of the duke of Bedford

Agriculture:

Cereals (especially wheat and barley); vegetables

Industries:

Agricultural machinery; cement manufacture (using local chalk); clay; electrical goods; gravel; motor vehicles and parts; packaging; sand; brickworks (one of the world's largest), at Stewartby

Population:

(1995 est) 373,000 Famous people: John Bunyan, John Howard, Joseph Paxton