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A midland county of England, county town Bedford, bounded by Northamptonshire, Cambridgeshire, Hertfordshire and Buckinghamshire
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{i} county in England
a county in southern England, whose main town is Bedford. Administrative (pop., 2001: 381,571), geographic, and historic county, southeast-central England. Much of the county is occupied by the River Ouse valley; its capital is Bedford. Settled 1800 BC by the Beaker culture, the valley was resettled by the Romans in the 1st-5th centuries AD. First mentioned as a political unit in 1010, the county has survived virtually unchanged within its present boundaries. Its architectural masterpiece is Woburn Abbey, seat of the dukes of Bedford

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Bedfordshire clanger
A dish originating from the English county Bedfordshire, an elongated suet pudding with meat in one side and jam in the other
Bedfordshire clangers
plural form of Bedfordshire clanger
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