Bedford
Noted for the excellence of the Harpur Trust boys, girls and co-educational independent schools together with the independent preparatory schools, Bedford is a pleasant market town dating from Saxon times and set on the banks of the River Great Ouse. The town’s shopping centre is soon to be redeveloped and, in the longer term, proposed major infrastructure projects such as the linking of the River Great Ouse to the Grand Union Canal www.b-mkwaterway.co.uk and the construction of the international standard Bedford Rowing lake www.bedfordrowing.co.uk/lake/press all promise greater prominence for the county town of Bedfordshire.
London St Pancras International 41 minutes.
