Bedfordshire

            Bedfordshire, geographic and historic county and former administrative county of the southeastern Midlands of England. The administrative county was abolished in 2009, with two of its three former districts—Mid Bedfordshire and South Bedfordshire—reconstituted as the new unitary authority of Central Bedfordshire, with the third, the borough of Bedford, also designated as a unitary authority.The geographic county of Bedfordshire also includes the unitary authority of Luton.The historic county coincides roughly in area with the geographic county.