Shefford is a community as well as civil church located in the Central Bedfordshire district of Bedfordshire, England. At the 2001 census it had a populace of 4,928, and also was estimated to have grown to 5,770 by 2007. The population at the 2011 Census had risen to 5,881. In between 1868 and 1974 Shefford was the website of St Francis' Boy's Home (orphanage) that was located on High Street next to the Roman Catholic Church dedicated to St Francis of Assisi. The church stays being used as a place of worship. The orphanage structures, which are seen on the right of the picture, have actually been turned into flats. The orphanage buildings are one of the most enforcing in the community as well as day from the 1880s. Many documents concerning the house can be found at the Bedfordshire and Luton Archives as well as Records Solution at Borough Hall in Bedford. There are Office as well as Department for Education Inspection Reports available that cover the period from 1962 to 1969. During World War II an entire Jewish youngsters's community entered being in Shefford as evacuees from Europe were billeted around the town as part of "Operation Pied Piper Tomorrow".