Sandy (Bedfordshire)

52.129722222222 - 0.29027777777778Koordinaten: 52 ° 8 ' N, 0 ° 17' W

Sandy is a town in the north of the county of Bedfordshire in England. It is located west of Bedford on the River Ivel and has about 11,000 inhabitants ( 2004).

The story Sandys goes back to the time of the Romans. After these had left Britain in the 5th century, the settlement belonged to the kingdom of Mercia. In the Domesday Book of 1086 it is listed as Sandeia. The name comes from the Old English Sandieg (sand island).

With the expansion of the Great Northern Line to Peterborough Sandy was connected mid-19th century to the railway. Another railway line to Cambridge, the Sandy to Potton Railway, (a son of British Prime Minister Robert Peel ) was built by William Peel. Here the first freight train ran in 1857, a year later, a passenger train.