Shefford

From Old English sċēap (“sheep”) + ford (“ford”).

Shefford (countable and uncountable, plural Sheffords)

1. A town and civil parish in Central Bedfordshire district, Bedfordshire, England (OS grid ref TL1439). ^[1]
2. A habitational surname from Old English.

• Great Shefford

• According to data collected by Forebears in 2014, Shefford is the 20991^st most common surname in England, belonging to 211 individuals.

• Survey of English Place-Names

• Hanks, Patrick, editor (2003), “Shefford”, in Dictionary of American Family Names, volume 3, New York: Oxford University Press, →ISBN.
• Forebears