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Religious Site Attractions In Bedfordshire

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Bedfordshire is a county in the East of England. It is a ceremonial county and a historic county, covered by three unitary authorities: Bedford, Central Bedfordshire, and Luton. Bedfordshire is bordered by Cambridgeshire to the east and northeast, Northamptonshire to the north, Buckinghamshire to the west and Hertfordshire to the southeast and south. It is the fourteenth most densely populated county of England, with over half the population of the county living in the two largest built-up areas: Luton and the county town, Bedford . The highest elevation point is 243 metres on Dunstable Downs in the Chilterns.
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Religious Site Attractions In Bedfordshire

  • 1. Whipsnade Tree Cathedral Dunstable
    Whipsnade is a small village and civil parish in the county of Bedfordshire. It lies on the eastward tail spurs of the Chiltern Hills, about 2.5 miles south-south-west of Dunstable. It is the home of Whipsnade Tree Cathedral, as well as the famous ZSL Whipsnade Zoo, and is the namesake of Whipsnade Park Golf club, although it is actually in neighbouring Dagnall.The local Wildlife Trust manages a small nature reserve north of the village called Sallowsprings .Edward John Eyre, explorer of Australia, was born in Whipsnade in 1815.A hill figure can be found in the site. Shaped like a lion, it was made for Whipsnade Zoo. During the Second World War, this chalk image of a lion on Bison Hill, owned by Whipsnade Zoo, was covered with a black sheet in order not to attract attention from the German...
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  • 3. The Church of Saint Mary the Virgin Bedford
    A shrine to the Virgin Mary is a shrine marking an apparition or other miracle ascribed to the Blessed Virgin Mary, or a site on which is centered a historically strong Marian devotion. Such locales are often the destination of pilgrimages.
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