Bedford
Bedford is a town and former independent city in the county of the same name in Central Virginia of the Southern United States of America. With an estimated population of 6,585 as of 2018, the town – which is the county seat of Bedford County – is part of the Lynchburg Metropolitan Statistical Area.Photo: SchuminWeb, CC BY-SA 3.0.
- Type: Town with 6,220 residents
- Description: town in Bedford County, Virginia, United States
- Postal code: 24523
Notable Places in the Area
National D-Day Memorial
Photo: RebelAt, Public domain.
The National D-Day Memorial is a war memorial located in Bedford, Virginia.
Bedford Museum & Genealogical Library
Museum
Photo: Truck writer, CC BY-SA 4.0.
The Bedford Museum & Genealogical Library is the county museum and genealogical library for Bedford County, Virginia It was started in 1932 by the General William R.
Elks National Home
Building
Photo: LeeG7144, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Spring Oak Senior Living Community - Elks Home is a retirement home and national historic district located at Bedford, Virginia.
Bedford
- Categories: independent city, town of Virginia and locality
- Location: Bedford, Central Virginia, Virginia, South, United States, North America
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
37.3345° or 37° 20' 4" northLongitude
-79.5235° or 79° 31' 25" westPopulation
6,220Elevation
306 metres (1,004 feet)United Nations Location Code
US XBYOpen Location Code
87928FMG+QHOpenStreetMap ID
node 158539015OpenStreetMap Feature
place=townGeoNames ID
4746265Wikidata ID
Q505704Bedford Satellite Map
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Also Known As
- Arabic: Bedford, Virginia
- Arabic: بيدفورد
- Bavarian: Bedford, Virginia
- Bavarian: Bedford
- Bishnupriya: বেডফোর্ড সিটি, ভার্জিনিয়া
- Cebuano: Bedford (kapital sa kondado sa Estados Unidos, Virginia)
- Cebuano: Bedford
- Chechen: Бедфорд (Виргини)
- Chechen: Бедфорд
- Chinese: 貝德福
- Chinese: 贝德福
- Dutch: Bedford
- English: Bedford, VA
- English: Bedford, Virginia
- French: Bedford
- German: Bedford
- Greek: Μπέντφορντ
- Haitian: Bedford, Vijini
- Haitian: Bedford
- Hungarian: Bedford
- Indonesian: Bedford, Virginia
- Italian: Bedford
- Japanese: ベッドフォード
- Korean: 베드퍼드
- Ladin: Bedford (Virginia)
- Ladin: Bedford
- Low German: Bedford
- Old English (ca. 450-1100): Bedford
- Old English (ca. 450-1100): Bēdesford
- Persian: بدفورد، ویرجینیا
- Polish: Bedford
- Portuguese: Bedford
- Russian: Бедфорд
- Serbian: Бедфорд
- Serbo-Croatian: Bedford, Virginia
- Serbo-Croatian: Bedford
- Slovak: Bedford
- South Azerbaijani: بدفورد، ویرجینیا
- Spanish: Bedford
- Spanish: Bedford (Virginia)
- Swedish: Bedford, Virginia
- Swedish: Bedford
- Talysh: Bedford
- Tatar: Бедфорд (Виргиния)
- Tatar: Бедфорд
- Ukrainian: Бедфорд
- Urdu: بیڈفورڈ، ورجینیا
- Uzbek: Bedford
- Vietnamese: Bedford
- Volapük: Bedford
- Waray (Philippines): Bedford
- Welsh: Bedford, Virginia
- Bedford City
- Bedford Court House
- Liberty
- Liberty Court House
Other Places Named Bedford
Localities in the Area
- Town and CountryNeighbourhood
- Northwood HeightsHamlet
- North HillsHamlet
- CentervilleHamlet, 5 km northeast
- Five ForksHamlet, 6 km south
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About Mapcarta. Thanks to Mapbox for providing amazing maps. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License. Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, excluding photos, directions and the map. Description text is based on the Wikivoyage page Bedford. Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY 2.0.