Shefford Town F
Shefford can mean the following: *Shefford, Bedfordshire, a town in Bedfordshire, England ** Shefford Town F.C., the football (soccer) club based in that town *Great Shefford, a village in Berkshire, England *Shefford, Quebec, a township in Eastern Quebec, Canada *Shefford County, Quebec, a historic county in Quebec *Shefford (electoral district), a federal electoral district in Southern Quebec *Shefford (provincial electoral district) Shefford is a former provincial electoral district in the Montérégie region of Quebec, Canada. As of its final election, it included the cities of Granby and Waterloo. It was created for the 1867 election (and existed prior to that in th ...

Shefford, Bedfordshire
Shefford is a town and civil parish located in the Central Bedfordshire district of Bedfordshire, England. At the 2001 census it had a population of 4,928, and was estimated to have grown to 5,770 by 2007. The population at the 2011 Census had risen to 5,881. The town gives its name to Shefford, Quebec. History 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, ...
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Shefford Town F
Shefford can mean the following: *Shefford, Bedfordshire, a town in Bedfordshire, England ** Shefford Town F.C., the football (soccer) club based in that town *Great Shefford, a village in Berkshire, England *Shefford, Quebec, a township in Eastern Quebec, Canada *Shefford County, Quebec, a historic county in Quebec *Shefford (electoral district), a federal electoral district in Southern Quebec *Shefford (provincial electoral district) Shefford is a former provincial electoral district in the Montérégie region of Quebec, Canada. As of its final election, it included the cities of Granby and Waterloo. It was created for the 1867 election (and existed prior to that in th ...

Great Shefford
Great Shefford (or West Shefford) is an English village and Civil parishes in England, civil parish on the River Lambourn in the West Berkshire district of Berkshire. The present civil parish includes the historical parish of Little or East Shefford, a small, reduced community downstream. It also covers the village of Shefford Woodlands, about south-west of Great Shefford, near Junction 14 on the M4 motorway. Toponymy The Toponymy, toponym of the Sheffords derives from the Old English for sheep ford. Amenities Great Shefford village has a primary school that belongs to Chaddleworth St. Andrew's and Shefford Church of England Federated Primary Schools. It also has a pub-restaurant, The Great Shefford, a shop and a petrol station. Churches St Mary The Church of England parish church of St Mary is one of two existing round-tower churches in Berkshire. The other is St Gregory's parish church at nearby Welford, Berkshire, Welford. Unlike the three round-towered churches in Sussex ...
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Shefford, Quebec
Shefford is a township municipality located in the province of Quebec. It is part of the Haute-Yamaska Regional County Municipality in the administrative area of Estrie. The population as of the Canada 2021 Census was 7,253. The township completely encircles the city of Waterloo. Demographics In the 2021 Census of Population conducted by Statistics Canada, Shefford had a population of living in of its total private dwellings, a change of from its 2016 population of . With a land area of , it had a population density of in 2021. Population trend:Statistics Canada: 1996, 2001, 2006, 2011, 2016, 2021 census Mother tongue language (2006) See also *List of township municipalities in Quebec This is a list of municipalities that have the Quebec municipal type township municipality, an administrative division defined by the Ministry of Municipal Affairs, Regions and Land Occupancy. Township municipalities (area is in km², populatio ... References External links ...
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Shefford County, Quebec
Shefford County is an historical county in southern Québec, Canada. It is named after Shefford, a small town in Bedfordshire county, England of the same name and is in the Eastern Townships region of Québec. Topographically, part of the county is situated on the western foothills of the Appalachian Mountains. The county contains four small lakes, Lake Waterloo near Waterloo, Lake Boivin in Granby Township, Lake Roxton in Roxton Township, and Lake Stukely in Stukely Township. All of the lakes flow into the Yamaska River, except for Lake Stukely which feeds into the St-François River, both of which flow northwards and are tributaries to the Saint Lawrence River. A prominent feature of the county is Mount Shefford in the Township of Shefford, one of a series of the Monteregian Hills that lie in a line between the Appalachian Mountains and the Saint Lawrence River. The county is shaped almost like a trapezoid. It is bounded in the south by Brome County (48 km; 45°17' N ...
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Shefford (electoral District)
Shefford is a federal electoral district in Quebec, Canada, that has been represented in the House of Commons of Canada since 1867. Its population in 2006 was 100,000. Demographics Ethnic groups: 99.2% White Languages: 95.2% French, 3.2% English Religions: 90.3% Catholic, 3.8% Protestant, 4.7% No religious affiliation Average income: $25,354 Geography This southern Quebec riding extends from Sherbrooke in the east to Montreal in the west, straddling the Quebec regions of Montérégie and Estrie. The district includes the central and eastern Rouville Regional County Municipality, all of La Haute-Yamaska (except Bromont) and southwestern Le Val-Saint-François Regional County Municipality. The main communities are Granby, Roxton Pond, Saint-Césaire, Saint-Alphonse, Valcourt, Waterloo, Saint-Paul-d'Abbotsford, Shefford, Granby Township, and Rougemont. The Area is 1,428 km2. The neighbouring ridings are Brome—Missisquoi, Saint-Jean, Chambly—Borduas, Saint- ...
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