Evidence of Anglian occupation has been found at a cemetery at Kempston, where both male and female graves dating from the fifth century have been discovered as well as a settlement near Biggleswade.

Grange School, Ridgeway School and St John ’ s School are all located in Kempston.

* John Grey manor of Kempston

Kempston was recorded as " camestone " in the Domesday Book and had a 6th-century Anglo Saxon burial site, now home to the Saxon Centre.

Kempston Micro Electronics was an electronics company specialising in computer joysticks and related home computer peripherals during the 1980s.

It used the Atari 2600 standard DE-9 connector and was primary designed to work with the ZX Spectrum Kempston joystick interface but also with the compatible ports built into other home computers such as the Amstrad CPC, Commodore 64 (& Vic-20 ) and later Commodore Amiga and Atari ST.

In the early hours of 22 August 2009, Davenport and his mother were stabbed at her home in Kempston, Bedfordshire.

Kempston is a town and civil parish located in Bedfordshire, England.

Until the 19th century Kempston was a mainly rural parish.

In 1896 the parish was divided into Kempston Urban District 1, 255 acres ( 5. 1 km² ) and the civil parish of Kempston Rural 3, 770 acres ( 15 km² ).

Kempston in 1908The Urban District was based on East End, Up End and Kempston New Town all of which are in the north eastern part of the parish close to Bedford, and had 86. 8 % of the total population at the 1901 census.

Church End, with its original parish church, remains a small hamlet in the rural part of Kempston.

In 1974 Kempston Urban District was abolished and Kempston reverted to being a civil parish, in the Borough of Bedford but with a separate town council with minor powers.

Kempston Rural remains a civil parish and is part of Turvey Ward for borough election purposes.

Historically it was one of the hamlets or " ends " scattered across the parish of Kempston.

This is a consequence of the division of the old larger Kempston parish in 1896 into Kempston town and Kempston Rural.

However, modern boundary changes have meant that Kempston Hardwick is now part of the rural parish of Stewartby.

Today, Stewartby parish also includes Kempston Hardwick.

The Bedford Urban Area which includes Kempston, Elstow and Biddenham forms the 71st largest Urban Area in the UK with a population of 101, 928.

* Kempston and Elstow Halt railway station

The river is navigable from the Wash to Kempston Mill, which is just beyond Bedford, a distance of.

42 ( Grant Palmer ) provides an hourly daytime service Mondays to Saturdays providing a connection to: Weston, Harlington, Toddington, Ampthill, Houghton Conquest, Kempston and Bedford.

J2 ( Stagecoach ) provides an hourly daytime service Mondays to Saturdays to Ampthill, Houghton Conquest, Kempston and Bedford.

Kempston serves principally as a dormitory town for Bedford and for Milton Keynes, which is about ten miles away.

In 1870 developers began to attempt to develop land on the road from Kempston to Bedford under the name " Kempston New Town ".

Kempston East Methodist Church in Bedford Road was opened in 1904 to serve the new parts of Kempston in the direction of Bedford.

The Bedford church now known as the Bunyan Meeting had members in Kempston from at least 1657, and ministers from the church sometimes preached in private houses in Kempston.

Up until the Second World War Roman Catholics who lived in Kempston were obliged to worship at a church in Bedford.

The first resident Catholic priest in Kempston was appointed in 1965 and the present small and plain Catholic church in Bedford Road was built at around this time.

The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints was first introduced in Bedford and Kempston by a missionary called Willard Richards on the 1st August 1837.

The Bedford Southern Bypass on the A421, was constructed in the 1990s and links with the Kempston relief road, built in the 1980s.

Patrick Hall ( born 20 October 1951 ) is a British Labour Party politician, who was the Member of Parliament ( MP ) for Bedford and Kempston from 1997 to 2010.

He was elected to the House of Commons at the 1997 General Election for the new seat of Bedford and Kempston with a majority of 8, 300.

BBC Three Counties Radio broadcasts on 90. 4FM ( Epping Green, near Hertford ), 92. 1FM ( Bedmond, near Hemel Hempstead ), 94. 7FM ( Quainton Hill, near Aylesbury ), 95. 5FM ( Sandy Heath ), 98. 0FM ( High Wycombe ), 103. 8FM ( Zouches Farm, near Luton ), 104. 5FM ( Bow Brickhill, near Milton Keynes ), 630kHz MW ( Lewsey Farm, near Luton ), 1161kHz ( Kempston, near Bedford ), and streaming from the BBC 3CR website.

Sessions was born in Largs, and spent some of his earliest years in Kempston, Bedfordshire and St Albans, Hertfordshire.

Construction was slow at first, but the new district soon began to expand steadily and Kempston acquired a more urban feel.

Kempston Rural was three times larger, but remained sparsely populated.

For many centuries, All Saints ' Church in Church End, which was first Catholic and later Anglican, was the only place of worship in Kempston.

The burgeoning population of Kempston New Town was served by St Stephen's, a temporary iron church in Spring Road which was built in 1888.

The first Congregationalist church building in Kempston was opened in the High Street in 1813.

A replacement church was built in Kempston New town in 1871.

The plot was previously the location of the Kempston Liberal Club.

Grange House was later donated by the Kempston branch of the Howard family to the people of Kempston.