Close to Lexington and Concord, this small town in Greater Boston participated in the first exchanges of the American Revolutionary War on April 19 1775. Bedford is at the terminus of the Minuteman Commuter Bikeway, a 10-mile rail trail that roughly tallies with the route of Paul Revere’s legendary Midnight Ride. The trailhead is at …
The name of this city in South Central Indiana is practically a byword for Indiana limestone. The pure, dense and uniform stone quarried around Bedford is the sediment from an inland sea that existed some 350 million years ago. Bedford stone has been used for scores of famous American landmarks, from the Empire State Building …
Bedfordshire’s county town is a leafy settlement on the River Great Ouse. That waterway and its Victorian Embankment, gardens and Suspension Bridge all bring sophistication to the town centre. For culture and aviation history, the Higgins Art Gallery & Museum and the Shuttleworth Collection are two top-notch museums in their fields. Bedford has had a …