1. Actually the exact date of Bunyan’s birth is not known, but he was baptised on November 30, 1628 in his home town of Elstow near Bedford.
2. The date for Bedfordshire Day was agreed in 2015 after a public vote organised by the Friends of Bedfordshire Society.
3. Henry VIII’s marriage to Catherine of Aragon was annulled by a convocation at Dunstable Priory in Bedfordshire in 1533.
4. Inhabitants of Arlesey, Bedfordshire (population 5,584) claim it is the longest town in Britain. Its main street is three miles long.
5. Half the population of Bedfordshire live in either Bedford or Luton.
6. The word “Bedfordshire” has been used as a humorous synonym for “bed” since at least 1665.
7. Bedfordshire comes first in an alphabetical list of English counties.
8. Famous Bedfordshire people include John Le Mesurier, Ronnie Barker and Carol Vorderman.
9. A traditional Bedfordshire dish is the Clanger, a suet pastry with meat at one end, jam the other.
10. “Clangers” also serves in some places as a nickname for inhabitants of Bedfordshire.