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Across the Great Ouse we reach Biddenham, now virtually joined to Bedford by housing estates. At the end of a lane near the Ouse the parish church is grouped with Church Farm.

This statue of one of Bedforshire's famous sons was made by the noted sculptor, Boehm, in 1873, and presented to the town by the then Duke of Bedford in June 1874.

Henry VIII awarded Russell Woburn Abbey as a reward for service, and his descendants became Dukes of Bedford.

Inside, Bedford's chief historical treasure is the brass to Sir William Harpur and his wife, Dame Alice. He is in the gown of an Alderman, and he was a Lord Mayor of London.

Situated to the south of Alcester on the Midland Railway line, Broom railway station was the interchange for a cross-country route linking up with the Midland main line from Rugby to Bedford.

In the distance is the Town Hall, which was designed by John Wing of Bedford and built in 1844.

This view was taken from near the Bedford Rowing Club clubhouse just before the buildings on the right were demolished for Swan House in 1960.

Sad to say, the house was largely dismantled by the Duke of Bedford in 1794.

The busy A428 Northampton to Bedford Road winds through the village from west to east, curving round the parish churchyard's rubblestone retaining walls.

Although there are no records of what that might have been, the words 'Villa Bedfordia' - Bedford Town - suggest it was as much an outpouring of civic pride in the town itself.

Another stone plaque commemorates its opening in April 1974 by the then Duke of Bedford. It replaced a Corn Exchange of 1849 which had proved too small; it then became the Floral Hall.

John Howard (1726- 1790) lived at nearby Cardington, and was twice Mayor of Bedford and in 1773 Lord High Sheriff of the county.

To its left and out of view are the late 1880s gables of the Bedford Rowing Club.

By an ancient tradi- tion he is supposed to have stopped at a well on the Bedford Road for a drink before continuing on his way, eventually tak- ing ship for France and exile.

The gates were presented to the town by the Duke of Bedford, and the park was opened by his eldest son, the Marquess of Tavistock, in July 1888 during Joshua Hawkins's fourth mayoralty.

Its foundation stone was laid by the Marquess of Tavistock, the eldest son of the Duke of Bedford, in 1811. The costs proved high.

The 1960s were a decade of great change in Bedford's skyline.

Horwood's fancy goods shop is on the corner with Bedford Street (right). The street nameplate, of which several survive, is a peculiarity of Stroud.

On the left, behind the trees, is the south entrance to Bedford School; the gates bear the inscription 'Floreat Schola Bedfordiensis'.

The Lloyds TSB bank (right) in Bedford Park style of 1879 promised greater things than its dismal surroundings in the High Road.

The Market Place is dominated by the Moot Hall, rebuilt by the Bedford Estate in 1852 in Jacobethan style with the re-used clock cupola from the 18th-century predecessor bursting from the roof in a bizarre

Woburn Sands, right on the Bedfordshire border and bleeding across it, grew up when the railway arrived in 1846; its delightful station in Tudor cottage style is on the Bedford to Bletchley junction

The church tower was built in the 15th century on the instructions of Jasper Tudor, Duke of Bedford and uncle of Henry VII.

The slipway indicates that the river was the main transportation method, barges bringing in grain from the northern and eastern wheat-growing areas and removing the flour to merchants' storage in Bedford