Great Barford

GREAT BARFORD is a large scattered village on the river Ouse, which is here crossed by a bridge of 17 arches to Blunham, and is on the road from Bedford to St. Neots, 1½ miles north-west from Blunham station on the Bletchley and Cambridge branch of the London and North Western railway, 51 north-east from Bedford, 6 south-west from St. Neots, 7 north-west from Biggleswade and 52 from London by road and 68 by rail, in the Northern division of the county, hundred of Barford, petty sessional division, union and county court district of Bedford, rural deanery of Eaton, Bedford archdeaconry and St. Albans diocese.