n.
City (pop., 1995 est.: 81,000), southeast-central England.
The administrative seat of Bedfordshire , it lies on the River Ouse northwest of London. It was a Roman fording station and a Saxon town. It was recaptured by the Anglo-Saxons from the Danes in 914. John Bunyan is thought to have written A Pilgrim's Progress while imprisoned there in the 17th century.