Shefford Hardwick Bedfordshire Family History Guide
Status: Extra-parochial
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The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870
SHEFFORD, a small town and a township-chapelry in Campton parish, Beds.
The town stands on the river Ivel, and on the Midland railway, 9½ miles SE of Bedford; consists of spacious, well-paved, cleanly streets; and has a post-office under Biggleswade, a r. station with telegraph, a good inn, an ancient church restored and enlarged in 1850, Baptist, Methodist, and Roman Catholic chapels, and a weekly market on Friday, chiefly for the sale of straw-plait.
The chapelry comprises 1,120 acres. Real property, £2,454. Pop., 1,015. Houses, 216.
The manor belongs to the Queen. Many fine Roman relics were found in a field adjoining the town, and were purchased for the Fitzwilliam museum in Cambridge. The living is annexed to Campton. The poet Bloomfield died here.
Source: The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales [Wilson, John M]. A. Fullarton & Co. N. d. c. [1870-72].
A Topographical Dictionary of England 1848
SHEFFORD-HARDWICKS, an extra-parochial liberty, in the union of Biggleswade, hundred of Clifton, county of Bedford; containing 13 inhabitants.
Source: A Topographical Dictionary of England by Samuel Lewis 1848
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- County: Bedfordshire
- Civil Registration District: Biggleswade
- Probate Court: Search the courts of the surrounding parishes
- Diocese: Not Applicable
- Rural Deanery: Not Applicable
- Poor Law Union: Biggleswade
- Hundred: Clifton
- Province: Canterbury