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Bedfordshire | |
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 Flag | |
| Sovereign state | United Kingdom |
| Constituent country | England |
| Region | East of England |
| Time zone | UTC±00:00 (Greenwich Mean Time) |
| • Summer (DST) | UTC+01:00 (British Summer Time) |
| Ceremonial county | |
| Area | Error in convert: Needs the number to be converted (help) |
| • Ranked | of 48 |
| • Ranked | of 48 |
| Density | Error in convert: Needs the number to be converted (help) |
| Ethnicity | 86.3% White 8.3% S.Asian 2.9% Afro-Carib. |
Bedfordshire is a county of England. Its county town is Bedford. It borders Cambridgeshire, Northamptonshire, Buckinghamshire (with the Borough of Milton Keynes) and Hertfordshire. The highest elevation point is 243 m (797 ft) on Dunstable Downs in the Chilterns.[1] The county motto is "Constant Be", which is taken from the hymn To Be A Pilgrim by John Bunyan.