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Anglo-Saxon Bedfordshire. Early 5th century Saxon burial sites have been discovered at Kempston [1] and Sandy, two Bedfordshire towns on the River Great Ouse and its tributary the River Ivel, as well as at Luton, in the south of the county on the River Lea (a tributary of the Thames).
A survey of the advances made in our knowledge of the archaeology of late Saxon and Norman London, particularly of the City of London, between the 1960s and the end of the 20th century.
- Matt Edgeworth
- 2007
5 de jun. de 2014 · Through the late 19th to mid 20th centuries, it was widely assumed that the nucleated row-plan village, and especially the compact and structured variety of it found in the Midlands, was integral to the collective nature of Germanic society and imported by the Anglo-Saxon invaders.
Anglo-Saxon Bedfordshire. En Kempston y Sandy, dos ciudades de Bedfordshire sobre el río Great Ouse y su afluente el río Ivel, así como en Luton, en el sur del condado sobre el río Lea (un tributario del Támesis).
21 de may. de 2024 · Bedford, city, Bedford unitary authority, historic county of Bedfordshire, England, in the fertile valley of the River Ouse. A Roman fording station and a Saxon town (cemetery of Kempston), it was recaptured by the Anglo-Saxon sovereign Edward the Elder (ruled 899–924) from the Danes in 914.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
Bedford town itself is named after a little-known Saxon chief called Beda, whose followers settled at a fordable spot along the River Ouse. From the early Middle Ages it was a market town for the agricultural region, and by 886 AD was a boundary town separating Wessex from the Danelaw.
From its humble beginnings as a Saxon settlement to its present-day status as a thriving commercial and cultural center, Bedford’s story is one of resilience, innovation, and adaptation. Early Beginnings: A Saxon Legacy (5th-11th Centuries) The town’s name itself whispers tales of its past.
