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Bedfordshire 1835

Introduction - Description - Abbreviations - Roads - Surrounding counties - Maps - Home page

Introduction

Graphics linked from the maps section of this page produce a large print map of Bedfordshire in 1835, a tactile map with braille lettering, and a key to the tactile map. This page explains and describes the maps. Towns shown are parliamentary boroughs and polling places in 1835. The Description section says what is on the map. The Abbreviations section gives locations within the county. The Roads section gives a sequence of places along roads through the county. The page Bedfordshire and Parliament 1835 gives information on the parliamentary status of places. The Maps section has links to the maps, which are in pdf (Acrobat) format, and to a page describing the way to produce a tactile map with braille letters from the pdf file. On another page is a general introduction to this series of maps of the English counties which are intended to be accessible to blind and partially sighted people. The Genuki pages for Bedfordshire have more information about the county, its records, and all its towns and parishes.

Description

There is a solid circle at the top left of the map. The title follows it at the top of the map, which is the North.The county boundary is shown by a dotted line. The Chapman County Code BDF is in large letters in the top right corner of the map. Towns are large dots, with a 2 letter abbreviation of the town name nearby. Roads linking the towns are solid lines. A ten mile scale bar is in the bottom right corner. Bedfordshire is an inland county, about 30 miles east to west by about 50 miles north to south.

Abbreviations and locations

In the list below the two letter abbreviation is given first, then the place name, then the position on the map within the county.

AM Ampthill, central

BE Bedford, central

BI Biggleswade, east

LE Leighton Buzzard, south west, near the county boundary

LU Luton, south

SH Sharnbrook, north west

Roads

Roads are shown to link the places on the map, and may not be the most important roads.

3 roads are shown.

from the bottom centre of the map, through Luton, through Bedford, and on to Sharnbrook.
from the bottom left at Leighton Buzzard, through Ampthill to Bedford.
from the right, half way up, through Biggleswade to Bedford.

Surrounding counties

Names of surrounding counties surrounding Bedfordshire are not shown on the map. Going clockwise from the south of the county, on the West are Buckinghamshire, and Northamptonshire. Then from the North of the county, on the East are Huntingdonshire, Cambridgeshire and Hertfordshire.

Maps

Graphic of Tactile map with braille names (pdf file)

Graphic of key in braille (pdf file)

Instructions for making a tactile map

Large print map (pdf file)

A single copy of this page can be made by or for any individual user. If you wish to make multiple copies or modifications, please contact David Hawgood - email david at hawgood dot com - I will normally give permission but I wish to know what use is being made of the maps. I also welcome comments.