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Shefford has given Roman treasure to the famous Fitzwilliam Museum at Cambridge, and has known a famous man; but it has little save its memories for us now. Its 15th century church stands in the broad street with no gravestones about it, for Shefford folk were carried a mile or two away to Campton. From here they carried Robert Bloomfield, the shoemaker poet who wrote The Farmer’s Boy; after a life of extreme poverty he came here to spend his old age, and they laid him in a grave at Campton.
The church has a massive tower arch and memorial window to Sir George Osborne, to whom all lovers of ancient things are grateful for the collection of antiquities, old glass and great paintings which were still in his home at Chicksands Priory when we called.
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