Bedford campus
Our Bedford campus has lots of green open spaces while being close to Bedford town centre and local amenities. Alongside Gateway and the Campus Centre - where you will find high-quality teaching spaces, informal learning spaces, lecture theatres and our student services - there are also bespoke facilities for our range of courses in sport and physical activity, education and teacher training, English, and nursing and allied health.
Bedford location
Bedford is a riverside town with a mixture of lively traditional pubs and restaurants, shops and first-class sports facilities. The Corn Exchange in the town centre shows regular music and comedy gigs, plus there are museums, landscaped parks, and a cinema.
Bedford is well-placed with its main train station linking London and Brighton to the south and Leicester, Nottingham and Sheffield to the north.
The surrounding area has a wealth of parks and open spaces including Bedford Park near the Bedford campus which is ideal for walks, cricket, tennis and basketball. Slightly further afield are 206 acres of open country for lake and river walks, angling, wildlife and conservation areas.
Also close by is Woburn Abbey and Safari Park, and the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds (RSPB) nature reserve at Sandy.
Bedford Campus address
University of Bedfordshire Bedford Campus
Polhill Ave
Bedford, MK41 9EA
United Kingdom
Find directions to Bedford Campus
- From the north, leave the M1 at Junction 14.
- Take the A422, following signs for Bedford.
- From the south leave the M1 at junction 13, then follow the A421 to Bedford.
- From the A1, south of St Neots, take the A428 to Bedford.
Bedford campus is next to the A428 on the eastern side of Bedford (Polhill Avenue).
There are frequent trains operated by Thameslink from London St Pancras International station - journey time about 50 minutes.
East Midlands Railway (EMR) trains also run from London St Pancras International station - journey time about 40 minutes. There are direct trains on this route to/from Leicester, Derby, Nottingham and Sheffield.
There is also a London Northwestern Railway branch line between Bedford town centre and Milton Keynes/Bletchley, opening up services to/from the West Midlands, Liverpool and Birmingham.
Our Bedford Campus is very close to the centre of town, being only 15 minutes by bicycle from the train station using the A4280.
On campus, there is parking for bicycles outside the Campus Centre.
See sustrans.org.uk for more details on cycle routes and maps.
Total Parking Solutions (TPS) is authorised by University of Bedfordshire to operate parking enforcement across our car parks. TPS is a member of the British Parking Association Approved Operator Scheme and follows the BPA agreed code of practice. TPS install signage setting out the terms and conditions of parking, issue parking charges for a breach of those terms and conditions and recover parking charges.
All students and visitors will need to pay to park at the Bedford Campus: You can apply for a monthly permit or pay the advertised tariff charges.
To sign up for the monthly parking scheme please email carparking@beds.ac.uk where you will be sent a link to register for parking.
Q: How do I pay for parking?
A: If you are signing up for the monthly permit scheme you will need to enter payment details once your application has been approved. Please note just adding billing information will not authorise total parking to take payments for the permit you have applied for. Click the “my permits and applications” section of the site and click on the £ symbol to pay now. Please make sure you application is marked as active before you park onsite.
If you are not signing up for the permit scheme you will need to pay the daily tariff charges, please scan the QR code on the tariff boards with your smart phone and select the length of parking you need and pay the charges shown.
Students permits will last a set amount of time and once these have expired, a new permit will need to be purchased.
Payments can be made by visiting totalparking.co.uk enter the location code 1300. You can then pay for the length of time you need and adjust the start time to reflect when you arrived.
If you have issues with monthly permits, please contact carparking@beds.ac.uk. For all issues with paying the daily tariff charges please contact Total Parking Solutions on 01536 680107 info@totalparking.co.uk
Parking charges are applicable 24 hours a day 7 days a week.
You can cancel your monthly permits at any point. Refunds for part months cannot be given. To cancel your permit sign into your account at totalpark.cloud
Permits can be put on hold however they will remain active for the remainder of the billing cycle. Refunds for part months cannot be given. Please remember to reinstate your permit and authorise payments before parking on our site. To place your permit on hold or reinstate a permit please email carparking@beds.ac.uk
The Bedford campus is easily accessible from Bedford town centre, with several Stagecoach services running along the A4280 (Goldington Road) to Polhill Avenue - a journey of around 15 minutes.