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Bedfordshire

Places to visit whilst staying in and around Bedford and Bedfordshire is the Cecil Higgins Art Gallery a recently refurbished art gallery and museum. See some great old vintage aircraft displayed, a historic garden and a birds of prey centre at the Shuttleworth Collection located at Biggleswade. For the railway enthusiast then check out the Leighton Buzzard Railway. One of the great family favourites in the area has got to be Woburn Safari Park and Woburn Abbey at Milton Keynes. Also another historic building around Bedfordshire is Bushmead Priory which has a complete refectory of an Augustinian priory complete with a fine timber roof.

The author of The Pilgrim's Progress was born in the village of Elstow and imprisoned for his religious views in the county town of Bedford, and both places have many reminders of him. Wildlife, native and exotic, has a favoured place in Bedfordshire, At Whipsnade Park Zoo more than 2000 animals roam free, and there is a Wild Animal Kingdom at Woburn Abbey, showplace home of the Dukes of Bedford. The Royal Society for the Protection of Birds is based at Sandy' where visitors ran tour a nature reserve, and there is a garden of rare birds at Stagsden. Other homegrown attractions include a lace museum at Luton and a treasure house at Luton