There are buses to Shefford about every hour from Bedford, I believe, and there is a very limited bus service (about 1 in the morning and 1 in the afternoon) that travels through Shefford, Clifton, Stanford and Southill. on the way to Biggleswade. I would definitely recommend hiring a car, these are lovely villages to wander through but you wouldn't be able to hop on and off buses. Denise Gibson ----- Original Message ----- From: "Deborah Garrand" <debbiegarrand@hotmail.com> To: <BEDFORD-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Friday, February 10, 2006 11:40 PM Subject: Re: [BDF] Beds Records Locations >I live in Luton and have used local trains regularly on the >Bedford-Gatwick-Brighton route. The easiest and fastest way to get to >Bedford from one of the two larger London airports is to fly to Gatwick and >take the Thameslink train direct to Bedford. There are defniitely buses >that go from Bedford to Biggleswade (I used to live in Biggleswade) and >Sandy - possibly also Shefford. I don't know about Southill or Ireland - >you may need to hire a car particularly to get to Ireland which is tiny. >Ireland does have a lovely pub though which is great for a meal out. > > If you are not hiring a car try looking at the http://www.arrivabus.co.uk/ > website. You will need the Shires & Essex region. Tring and Aylesbury > are listed as destinations there and you can work out bus routes. Buses > to Aylesbury definitely go from Luton - a 20-30 min train ride back south > from Bedford. > > Hope this helps. > > Deb. > > >>From: Dianne.Sutton@Tesco.Net >>Reply-To: BEDFORD-L@rootsweb.com >>To: BEDFORD-L@rootsweb.com >>Subject: Re: [BDF] Beds Records Locations >>Date: Wed, 01 Feb 2006 12:46:01 +0000 >> >>Sandee said: >> >>I will be primarily searching: Bedford, Shefford, Sandy, Hamlet of >>Ireland, Biggleswade, Southill, >>and Wyboston areas in Beds, as well as Hinxworth and Tring in Herts, and >>Winslow and Aylesbury in Bucks. >> >>Sandee, >> >>if you go to Bedford Library in the centre of town and go up to the >>mezzanine they have transcribed parish registers on the shelves, and lots >>of Bedfordshire stuff. I usually go there to see what I can find before >>going to BLARS at County Hall to look at things. >> >>Also for Bucks records you'll probably need to go to Aylesbury. Have a >>look here: http://met.open.ac.uk/genuki/big/eng/BKM/ >> >>Look at http://www.bucksfhs.org.uk/ and select Links it takes you to the >>Centre for Bucks Studies >> >>Also look at http://www.bucksgs.org.uk/ >> >>and perhaps ask further advice on Bucks-L@rootsweb.com >> >> >> >> >>==== BEDFORD Mailing List ==== >>Bedfordshire at Rootsweb >>http://www.rootsweb.com/~engbdf/ >> > > > > ==== BEDFORD Mailing List ==== > Bedfordshire at Rootsweb > http://www.rootsweb.com/~engbdf/ >