Biggleswade

BIGGLESWADE is a market and union town, head of a petty sessional division and county court district, with a station on the Great Northern railway, 45 miles from London by the high road and 41 by rail, 10½ southeast from Bedford and 11 north from Hitchin, in the Northern division of the county, hundred and rural deanery of Biggleswade, Bedford archdeaconry and St. Albans diocese, bordered on the west by the river Ivel, formerly navigable from its junction with the Ouse at Tempsford, about 4 miles distant, but in pursuance of the "Ivel Navigation Act" of 1876, the locks have been allowed to fall into disuse.