Shefford
Shefford is a community and also civil parish located in the Central Bedfordshire district of Bedfordshire, England. At the 2001 census it had a population of 4,928, as well as was estimated to have grown to 5,770 by 2007. The population at the 2011 Census had actually risen to 5,881. Between 1868 and 1974 Shefford was the website of St Francis' Boy's Home (orphanage) that was located over Street beside the Roman Catholic Church devoted 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 developed into flats. The orphanage structures are the most enforcing in the town as well as day from the 1880s. Numerous documents pertaining to the house can be discovered at the Bedfordshire and also Luton Archives and also Records Solution at Borough Hall in Bedford. There are Office as well as Department for Education Inspection Reports offered that cover the period from 1962 to 1969. Throughout The Second World War an entire Jewish kids's community came into being in Shefford as evacuees from Europe were billeted in and around the town as part of "Operation Pied Piper Tomorrow".
