Market town in Bedfordshire, England

Shefford

Shefford is a town and civil parish in the Central Bedfordshire district of Bedfordshire, England.

Plan a trip to Shefford→From London, Essex

Every way there

London, Essex → Shefford
61 km · quickest by road, 1h 51m · £7–9
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London → Shefford
61 km · quickest by road, 1h 51m · £7–9
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Birmingham, West Midlands → Shefford
117 km · quickest by road, 2h 28m · £13–17
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Road and air are today’s quick answer; timetabled trains, buses and ferries load on the results page from the operators’ feeds.

The field note

What is in and around Shefford, ranked by how widely it is written about, how you reach it, and the nearest places where we have researched how people move.

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What Shefford has

YScheduled flightsLuton, Luton (LTN), 18 km
YTrains and coachesTransitous carries 3 timetable feeds for this country, 2 with real-time
NFerriesno crossing within 25 km
YDriving and taxiOpenStreetMap roads; cab fare from the country band
NBike and scooter shareno share feed known
NCruisesno open itinerary source anywhere

Y routable now · F found, not yet implemented · N no source known.

52.037°, -0.332°

At the 2021 census it had a population of 7,311. It lies 10 miles (16 km) south-east of Bedford.

How locals move

Getting around Shefford the local way

Get aroundA cycle route runs north–south through the town, mostly off-road, following the railway line.

From Wikivoyage: Biggleswade, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us. Last edited 2026-09.

Text adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0. Photograph: Wikimedia Commons (see Commons), Wikimedia Commons.