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Shefford

Shefford is a town and civil parish in the district of , England. At the 2021 census it had a population of 7,311. It lies 10 miles south-east of .
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  • Type: Town with 10,800 residents
  • Description: town and civil parish in Central Bedfordshire, UK
  • Also known as: “Shefford, Bedfordshire”

Places of Interest

Highlights include St Francis of Assisi Church, Shefford and Church of All Saints, Campton.

Church
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St Francis of Assisi Church is a Catholic church in Shefford, Bedfordshire. The church was built from 1882 to 1884 and designed by Samuel Joseph Nicholl in the Gothic Revival style, and includes the remains of a chapel built in 1791.

Church
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The Church of All Saints is the Anglican in the village of , Shefford, , . Its official title is Parish and encompasses the villages of Campton and Chicksands and the nearby military base, despite the base having its own church dedicated to Saint Gilbert of Sempringham.

Church
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Places in the Area

Nearby places include Henlow and Chicksands.

Village
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is a village and civil parish in the district of the county of , England, about 11 miles south-east of the county town of .

Locality
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is a village in the civil parish of in the district of , England. It gives its name to , a military base which was developed from the 1930s on the estate.

Village
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is a village and civil parish in the county of . The original hundred of is named after it. The original "hundred" comprised: The Parishes of ; -Cum-Shefford; ; Clifton; ; Holwell; ; part of ; Lower ; Little Holwell; ; Upper .

Shefford

Latitude
52.0384° or 52° 2′ 18″ north
Longitude
-0.3355° or 0° 20′ 8″ west
Population
10,800
Elevation
131 feet (40 metres)
Open location code
9C4X2MQ7+9Q
Open­Street­Map ID
node 33695192
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­town
Geo­Names ID
2638074
Wiki­data ID
Q2174929
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In Other Languages

From Asturian to Welsh—“Shefford” goes by many names.
  • Asturian: “Shefford”
  • Basque: “Shefford (Bedfordshire)”
  • Basque: “Shefford”
  • Bengali: “শেফোর্ড”
  • Cebuano: “Shefford”
  • Chinese: “Shefford”
  • Chinese: “設福德”
  • Chinese: “设福德”
  • Czech: “Shefford”
  • Dutch: “Shefford”
  • French: “Shefford”
  • German: “Shefford”
  • Gujarati: “શેફર્ડ”
  • Irish: “Shefford, Bedfordshire”
  • Irish: “Shefford”
  • Italian: “Shefford”
  • Japanese: “シェフォード”
  • Kannada: “ಶೆಫರ್ಡ್”
  • Korean: “쉐포드”
  • Ladin: “Shefford”
  • Lithuanian: “Šefordas”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Shefford”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Shefford i Bedfordshire”
  • Persian: “شفورد، بدفوردشر”
  • Polish: “Shefford”
  • Portuguese: “Shefford”
  • Russian: “Шефорд”
  • Slovak: “Shefford”
  • South Azerbaijani: “شفورد، بدفوردشر”
  • Spanish: “Shefford”
  • Swedish: “Shefford, Bedfordshire”
  • Swedish: “Shefford”
  • Tamil: “ஷெபோர்ட”
  • Telugu: “షెఫ్ఫోర్డ్”
  • Turkish: “Shefford, Bedfordshire”
  • Urdu: “شیفورڈ”
  • Volapük: “Shefford”
  • Welsh: “Shefford, Swydd Bedford”
  • “Shefford”

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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Shefford”. Photo: RobThinks, CC BY-SA 4.0.