Shefford
Shefford is a community as well as civil parish situated in the Central Bedfordshire district of Bedfordshire, England. At the 2001 census it had a populace of 4,928, as well as was approximated to have expanded to 5,770 by 2007. The population at the 2011 Census had actually risen to 5,881. In between 1868 and 1974 Shefford was the site of St Francis' Boy's Home (orphanage) that was located on High Street beside the Roman Catholic Church devoted to St Francis of Assisi. The church continues to be being used as a church. The orphanage structures, which are seen on the right of the picture, have actually been become flats. The orphanage structures are the most enforcing in the community and also day from the 1880s. Several data regarding the house can be discovered at the Bedfordshire and also Luton Archives as well as Records Solution at District Hall in Bedford. There are Home Office and Department for Education Inspection Reports readily available that cover the period from 1962 to 1969. Throughout The Second World War an entire Jewish kids's area came into remaining in Shefford as evacuees from Europe were billeted around the community as part of "Operation Pied Piper Tomorrow".