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


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    “Hold hard, my county darlings, for a hawk descends,
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    Your sport is summer as the spring runs angrily.”
    —Dylan Thomas (1914–1953)

    “Parental attitudes have greater correlation with pupil achievement than material home circumstances or variations in school and classroom organization, instructional materials, and particular teaching practices.”
    —Children and Their Primary Schools, vol. 1, ch. 3, Central Advisory Council for Education, London (1967)