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, and was estimated to have expanded to 5,770 by 2007. The population at the 2011 Census had actually risen to 5,881. In between 1868 and also 1974 Shefford was the site of St Francis' Boy's Home (orphanage) that was located on High Street alongside the Roman Catholic Church committed to St Francis of Assisi. The church continues to be in use as a church. The orphanage structures, which are seen on the right of the picture, have been become flats. The orphanage structures are the most imposing in the community as well as day from the 1880s. Lots of documents concerning the house can be located at the Bedfordshire as well as Luton Archives and Records Solution at Borough Hall in Bedford. There are Office and Department for Education Inspection Reports available that cover the period from 1962 to 1969. Throughout World War II an entire Jewish kids's neighborhood came into remaining in Shefford as evacuees from Europe were billeted in and around the community as part of "Operation Pied Piper Tomorrow".