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Shefford
Shefford is a town 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 approximated to have actually expanded to 5,770 by 2007. The population at the 2011 Census had actually risen to 5,881. In between 1868 as well as 1974 Shefford was the site of St Francis' Boy's Home (orphanage) that was positioned on High Street next to the Roman Catholic Church devoted to St Francis of Assisi. The church continues to be in use as a place of worship. The orphanage structures, which are seen on the right of the picture, have been become flats. The orphanage buildings are the most imposing in the town and also day from the 1880s. Numerous documents relating to the residence can be discovered at the Bedfordshire as well as Luton Archives and also Records Service at Borough Hall in Bedford. There are Home Office and also Department for Education Inspection Reports available that cover the duration from 1962 to 1969. During The Second World War a whole Jewish youngsters's area entered into being in Shefford as evacuees from Europe were billeted around the community as part of "Operation Pied Piper Tomorrow".