About Shefford
Shefford is a lively small market town with many advantages for those who live there. The town is situated midway between the A1 and the M1. It has two rail lines and it has an excellent bus service into Hitchin and Bedford. Shefford has its own micro brewery, B&T Ltd, and many good pubs, which serve some interesting real ales. Along the High Street two of these pubs are the Black Swan and the Bridge Hotel, the perfect places to meet with one of our undeniably beautiful Shefford escorts. If you live in Shefford or just visiting the town on business, you will find a fantastic choice of ladies on the tonights escort page of our web site, all you have to do is call us and book your perfect and stunning escort to be your companion for the evening. We will bring the escort of your choice direct to your door so that you can sit back relax and enjoy your evening together.
Typical of many ancient towns and villages in England, Shefford has developed slowly by a process of evolution rather than revolution. The earliest mention recorded is in the 13th century although it is known, through archaeological discoveries, that the Romans were here at about the 1st century A.D. and that one of the two sites discovered yielded pottery of a later Anglo-Saxon period, possibly about the 6th century. At this time, it can be assumed that the immediate area was mainly swampland and, running east to west as it did, afforded few crossing places for travellers or shepherds moving between higher land to the north and south. It was probably around the time of the Danes' invasion of this country in the 9th century that the shepherds found this point the easiest to cross the river with their flocks and the name Sheep Ford was born.
In 1225 a Charter was granted to hold a market at the settlement by the sheep ford thus establishing this tiny hamlet of less than one hundred population as a market town. Eighty seven years later, in 1312, another Royal Charter was granted to Shefford - the right to hold an annual fair. This was held at Michaelmas and although at least two more fairs were established in the town at later dates, only this one, held as a street fair on the 11th October each year, remains today and is one of the oldest links with the towns past.
