Bedford

Bedford is name of two places, one in the United Kingdom, and the other in the United States.

The city in the United States is situated in northeastern Texas, northeast of Fort Worth.

Bedford in the United Kingdom is a 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; Elstow, Bunyan's birthplace, is not far off.

The county town gives its name to the county, which is a midland agricultural county of England, generally level, with some flat fen-land. It traditionally manufactures agricultural implements, lace, and straw plaiting. It is also famous for producing Bedford cord.