The town has a scout group, and a local Army Cadet Force hut at Chicksands on the Army Intelligence Corps base, which is part of Bedfordshire ACF, in A company.
Great Shefford railway station was a railway station in Great Shefford, Berkshire, UK, on the Lambourn Valley Railway.
Originally designated Shefford & District Upper School, it was as Samuel Whitbread Upper School that it opened on a purpose-built site on 4 September 1973, as part of Bedfordshire County Council's re-organisation into a 3-tier, non-selective school system.
Shefford Woodlands developed where the road linking Hungerford and Wantage (later a turnpike, now the A338) crossed the Roman road of Ermin Street linking Silchester and Gloucester.
Osborne was born on 17 November 1715, at Chicksands village (Shefford, Bedfordshire, England), which was the seat of the Osborn family.