Retirement Properties Spotlight in Kempston

Bedford is on the River Ouse and was an important centre in Saxon times and was sacked by the Danes in the early eleventh century. Its name possibly derives from 'ford of a man called Bieda'. The town was mentioned in Domesday as Bedeford and had a church. Although the county town and its only borough Bedford was smaller than either neighbouring Leighton Buzzard or Luton which both had markets. There are several memorials to John Bunyan in the town.