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Shefford

The small town of Shefford grew up, as the name suggests, around a sheep ford across the Rivers Hitt and Flitt and enjoyed a brief status as an inland port on the Ivel Navigation. This waterway was built primarily to bring coal from Kings Lynn by way of the River Ouse. In North Bridge Street a wall plaque marks the house of the pastoral poet Robert Bloomfield, a poor farm labourer and shoemaker who found fame when he published The Farmer’s Boy in 1800. The poet, who died, as he had lived, in extreme poverty, is buried in the churchyard at nearby Campton, Shefford’s mother church. Shefford is also the starting point of the 21-mile-long cycle route, the Jubilee Way, a circular route that passes through undulating landscape and picturesque villages.