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SHEFFORD HARDWICKE, formerly extra-parochial, is now a parish, half a mile from the Shefford railway station, 8½ miles south-east from Bedford, in the Northern division of the county, petty sessional division, hundred, union and county court district of Biggleswade : it is mostly comprised in one farm, the property of Samuel Whitbread esq. of Southill Park, Biggleswade : the Midland railway runs through the parish. The area is 339 acres; rateable value, £387; the population In 1891 was 65. This place is included in the Shefford United School Board District & the children attend the school there.
[Extracts from Kelly's Directory - Bedfordshire - 1898]
The 1851 Census Index for Shefford Hardwick can be found in the 1851 Index to Census of Bedfordshire, Volume 3, Book 5 available from the Bedfordshire Family History Society.
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