Wixams
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Wixams is a new town and civil parish located in Bedfordshire, England, which has been under construction since early 2007. It is expected to become the third largest settlement in the Borough of Bedford after Bedford itself and Kempston, and one of the largest new settlements founded in England since the British new towns movement of the first twenty five years after World War II.
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Within Vinony's link graph, Wixams is referenced by 120 other articles, and connects out to civil parish, Shillington and England.
The entry is geolocated on the map, across 2 mapped points.
It sits within the topics Borough of Bedford, Civil parishes in Bedfordshire and Planned communities established in the 2000s.
Its subject is documented across 14 Wikipedia language editions.
Key facts
- UK place.country
- England
- UK place.static_image
- Lakeview Village Hall, Wixams.jpg
- UK place.static_image_caption
- Lakeview Village Hall
- UK place.official_name
- Wixams
- UK place.population
- 4,669
- UK place.civil_parish
- Wixams
- UK place.unitary_england
- Bedford
- UK place.lieutenancy_england
- Bedfordshire
- UK place.region
- East of England
- UK place.constituency_westminster
- Mid Bedfordshire
- UK place.post_town
- BEDFORD
- UK place.postcode_district
- MK42
- UK place.postcode_area
- MK
- UK place.dial_code
- 01234
- UK place.os_grid_reference
- TL046443
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- civil parish
- Country
- United Kingdom
- Located in
- Bedford
- Population
- 4670
- Time zone
- UTC±00:00
- Official website
- www.wixams.co.uk/index.php
- Image
- LakeviewVillageHall.JPG
- Dialing code
- 01234
Show 5 more facts
- OS grid reference
- TL046443
- postal code
- MK42
- inception
- 2007-00-00
- Commons category
- Wixams
- P8168
- Pys
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Encyclopedic overview
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- History
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- External links
Wixams is a new town and civil parish located in Bedfordshire, England, which has been under construction since early 2007. It is expected to become the third largest settlement in the Borough of Bedford after Bedford itself and Kempston, and one of the largest new settlements founded in England since the British new towns movement of the first twenty five years after World War II.
Part of the site is in Central Bedfordshire. At the 2011 Census the population of the new town was included in the civil parish of Wilstead.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Wixams” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
On the map
2 mapped locations