Shefford is a town and civil parish located in the Central Bedfordshire district of Bedfordshire near to Luton and serviced by Luton borough council England. At the 2021 census it had a population of 7,311. The town gives its name to Shefford, Quebec. Roman remains were discovered in Shefford in the early nineteenth century. The labouring-class poet Robert Bloomfield (the shoemaker poet) died in Shefford after his publishers went bankrupt and Bloomfield was forced to move from London into a cottage rented to him by a friend. In Shefford one of his daughters died in 1814 and his wife became insane. In order to support himself he tried to carry on business as a bookseller but failed, and in his later years was reduced to making Aeolian harps which he sold among his friends. With failing eyesight, his own reason threatened by depression, he died in great poverty in the town in 1823. He was buried at Campton, as was usual for those dying in Shefford. More information...
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