Bedfordshire County Council

Bedfordshire County Council was the county council of the non-metropolitan county of Bedfordshire in England. It was established in 1889 and was abolished on 1 April 2009. The county council was based in Bedford. It was replaced with three unitary authorities: Bedford Borough Council, Central Bedfordshire Council and (since 1997) Luton Borough Council.


Former county councils of England
  • Avon
  • Bedfordshire
  • Berkshire
  • Cambridgeshire and Isle of Ely
  • Cheshire
  • Cleveland
  • Cornwall
  • Cumberland
  • Durham
  • East Riding
  • East Suffolk
  • Greater Manchester
  • Hereford and Worcester
  • Herefordshire
  • Holland
  • Humberside
  • Huntingdon and Peterborough
  • Huntingdonshire
  • Isle of Ely
  • Isle of Wight
  • Kesteven
  • Lindsey
  • London
  • Merseyside
  • Middlesex
  • North Riding
  • Northumberland
  • Rutland
  • Shropshire
  • Soke of Peterborough
  • South Yorkshire
  • Tyne and Wear
  • West Midlands
  • Westmorland
  • West Riding
  • West Suffolk
  • West Yorkshire
  • Wiltshire


Famous quotes containing the words county and/or council:

    “I believe the citizens of Marion County and the United States want to have judges who have feelings and who are human beings.”
    —Paula Lopossa, U.S. judge. As quoted in the New York Times, p. B9 (May 21, 1993)

    “Daughter to that good Earl, once President
    Of England’s Council and her Treasury,
    Who lived in both, unstain’d with gold or fee,
    And left them both, more in himself content.

    Till the sad breaking of that Parliament
    Broke him, as that dishonest victory
    At Chaeronea, fatal to liberty,
    Kill’d with report that old man eloquent;—”
    —John Milton (1608–1674)