Bedfordshire
Bedfordshire was an English county. (AUDIO: The Hourglass Killers)
Locations[[edit] | edit source]
Bedford and Kempston Hardwick were located there, (AUDIO: The Hourglass Killers) as was the RAF base Cardington. (AUDIO: Storm Warning)
History[[edit] | edit source]
In the 1890s, the Sixth Doctor, Leela, and George Litefoot visited the county while investigating Kempston and Hardwick. (AUDIO: The Hourglass Killers)
In 1951, a portal to the Divergent Universe was opened from Cardington. (AUDIO: Zagreus)
Barbara Wright knew the route to Bedfordshire from London. She began to explain to Jenny how she knew the route, explaining that "[she] used to live...", but cut herself off before finishing the sentence.
During the 22nd century Dalek invasion, the Daleks established a huge mining facility there as part of their plan to remove the Earth's core and replace it with a power system that would allow the Daleks to pilot the planet anywhere in the universe. Thanks to the First Doctor's intervention, the plan failed, and the mines were destroyed in a volcanic eruption. (TV: The Dalek Invasion of Earth)
References[[edit] | edit source]
The Fourth Doctor recalled people complaining when he freed them from the Dalek mines in Bedfordshire. (PROSE: The Pirate Planet)
While in Gabriel Chase, the Seventh Doctor used the phrase "up the wooden hill to Bedfordshire", meaning to go to bed. (TV: Ghost Light)
