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Bedford

The Nuttall Encyclopedia

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A midland agricultural county of England, generally level, with some flat fen-land; also the county town, on the Great Ouse, clean and well paved, with excellent educational institutions, famous in connection with the life of John Bunyan, where relics of him are preserved, and where a bronze statue of him by Boehm has been erected to his memory by the Duke of Bedford in 1871; manufactures agricultural implements, lace, and straw plaiting; Elstow, Bunyan's birthplace, is not far off.

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Wood, James, ed. Entry for 'Bedford'. The Nuttall Encyclopedia. https://www.studylight.org/​encyclopedias/​eng/​nut/​b/bedford.html. Frederick Warne & Co Ltd. London. 1900.
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