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

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

Kempston abuts both John Bunyan's home parish of Elstow and Bedford, where he was imprisoned.

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 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 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.

Its headquarters are based in Kempston, Bedfordshire.

According to the former Bedfordshire County Council's estimates, the town had a population of 80, 000 in mid 2005, with 19, 720 in the adjacent town of Kempston.

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

The headquarters of the Bedfordshire Police are in Kempston.

* Bedfordshire Parish Surveys Historic Landscape and Archaeology: Kempston.

* Kempston section of the Victoria County History of Bedfordshire online

* Kempston Hardwick, Bedfordshire

* Kempston Hardwick, a village west of Bedford, Bedfordshire

Following his retirement Clark received a life peerage as Baron Clark of Kempston, of Kempston in the County of Bedfordshire and was an active contributor to House of Lords debates.

Hastingsbury Business & Enterprise College ( formerly Hastingsbury Upper School and Community College ) is a coeducational upper school for 13-18 year olds, located on Hill Rise in Kempston, Bedfordshire, England.

The current constituency covers the towns of Bedford and Kempston in Bedfordshire.

The new constituency ( strictly speaking The Bedford division of Bedfordshire ) covered the northern end of the county and included Kempston and Eaton Socon together with the surrounding rural area.

In 1983, further boundary changes took Kempston out of the constituency, and its name was changed to North Bedfordshire, although it was recognisably still the same constituency and Bedford itself was still much its largest component.

The Forest of Marston Vale is an evolving community forest in Marston Vale, which runs south west from the towns of Bedford and Kempston in Bedfordshire, England towards the M1 motorway.

Kempston Hardwick is a small village on the edge of the town of Kempston in Bedfordshire, England.

* Kempston Hardwick pages at the Bedfordshire and Luton Archives and Records Service

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

Once known as the largest village in England, Kempston is now a town with its own town council.

The better known of these included the Kempston joystick interface, the Morex Peripherals Centronics / RS-232 interface, the Currah Microspeech unit ( speech synthesis ), Videoface Digitiser, RAM pack, the Cheetah Marketing SpecDrum, a drum machine, and the Multiface, a snapshot and disassembly tool from Romantic Robot.

file: Kempston joystick interface. jpeg | Kempston joystick interface

There were numerous disk drive interfaces, including the Abbeydale Designers / Watford Electronics SPDOS, Abbeydale Designers / Kempston KDOS and Opus Discovery.

From Milton Keynes, the canal is planned to pass beneath the M1 utilising an existing cattle creep, then cross over Brogborough Hill, and across the Marston Vale through to the River Great Ouse in Kempston.

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.

The controller uses the prevailing de facto standard Atari-style 9-pin connector and can be connected without modification to all other machines compatible with that standard, including the Atari 2600, Commodore Amiga, Atari ST, Commodore 64, Amstrad CPC and ZX Spectrum with Kempston interface or similar.

It flows through Brackley, Buckingham, Milton Keynes at Stony Stratford, Newport Pagnell, Olney and Kempston, which is the current head of navigation.

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

It featured a Kempston joystick port, and later revisions contained a switch that effectively ' hid ' the device from software.

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.