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• If you are looking for hills, rivers, castles ... or pretty much anything other than the "places" where people live and lived, you need to look in our collection of Historical Gazetteers. This contains the complete text of three gazetteers published in the late 19th century — over 90,000 entries. Although there are no descriptive gazetteer entries for placenames exactly matching your search term (other than those already linked to "places"), the following entries mention "SHELFORD":

  Place name	County	Entry	Source
  BARRINGTON	Cambridgeshire	Shelford r. station, and 7 SSW of Cambridge. It has a post office under Royston. Acres, 2,129. Real property	Imperial
  BINGHAM	Nottinghamshire	Shelford, Tythby, Cropwell-Bishop, Colston-Basset, Owthorpe, Kinoulton, Hickling, Widmerpool, Stanton-on-the-Wolds, Plumtree, Edwalton, Tollerton, Cotgrave, and Holme	Imperial
  CHESTERTON	Cambridgeshire	Shelford, containing the parishes of Great Shelford, Little Shelford, Stapleford, Hauxton, Newton, Harston, Haslingfield, Harleton, Comberton, Barton, Madingley, Coton, Grantchester	Imperial
  ELY	Cambridgeshire	Shelford-Parva, and Wimpole; and the vicarages of Arrington, Barrington, Barton, Comberton, Foxton, Harston, Haslingfield, Hauxton, Newton, Shelford-Magna, Shepreth	Imperial
  Great Shelford	Cambridgeshire	Great Shelford , in co. and 4 miles S. of Cambridge; P.O., T.O. See SHELFORD, GREAT.	Bartholomew
  LINCOLN	Lincolnshire Nottinghamshire	Shelford; and the donative of Tithby. The deanery of Bingham-third contains the rectories of Barton-in-Fabis, West Bridgeford	Imperial
  Little Shelford	Cambridgeshire	Little Shelford , par., Cambridgeshire, adjacent to Great Shelford; P.O. See SHELFORD, LITTLE.	Bartholomew
  Newton	Nottinghamshire	Newton , hamlet, Shelford and Bingham pars., Notts, 2 miles NW. of Bingham; P.O.	Bartholomew
  NEWTON	Nottinghamshire	NEWTON , a hamlet in Shelford and Bingham parishes, Notts; 2 miles N W of Bingham. Acres, 800. Pop., 100.	Imperial
  NOTTINGHAMSHIRE or Notts	Nottinghamshire	Shelford, Stapleford, and Stanford. The Fosse way comes in from Leicestershire at atumulus near Willoughby, and goes north-east by northward	Imperial
  Saxondale	Nottinghamshire	Saxondale , township and vil., Shelford par., Notts, 1½ mile W. of Bingham, pop. 98.	Bartholomew
  SAXONDALE	Nottinghamshire	Shelford parish, Notts; 1½ mile W of Bingham. It has a post-office under Nottingham. Pop., 95. Houses, 22.	Imperial
  Shelford	Nottinghamshire	Shelford , par., township, and vil., Notts - par., 3560 ac., pop. 535; township, pop. 437; vil., 3 miles NW. of Bnigham	Bartholomew
  SHELFORD	Nottinghamshire	SHELFORD , a village, a township, and a parish, in Bingham district, Notts. The village stands near the river Trent, 2 miles	Imperial
  Shelford, Great	Cambridgeshire	Shelford, Great , par. and vil. with ry. sta. (Shelford), Cambridgeshire - par., 1900 ac., pop. 972; vil., 3 miles S. of Cambridge	Bartholomew
  SHELFORD (Great)	Cambridgeshire	SHELFORD (Great) , a village, a parish, and a sub-district, in Chesterton district, Cambridge. The village stands adjacent to the London	Imperial
  Shelford, Little	Cambridgeshire	Shelford, Little , par. and vil., Cambridgeshire - par., 1200 ac., pop. 516; vil., in W. vicinity of Great Shelford; P.O.; near	Bartholomew
  SHELFORD (Little)	Cambridgeshire	SHELFORD (Little) , a parish, with a village, in Chesterton district, Cambridge; ½ a mile WSW of Shelford r. station, and 4½ S of Cambridge	Imperial
  STAPLEFORD	Cambridgeshire	Shelford r. station, and 4½ miles SSE of Cambridge. It has a post-office under Cambridge. Acres, 1,400. Real	Imperial
  TRENT (The)	Derbyshire Leicestershire Lincolnshire Nottinghamshire Staffordshire	Shelford, Hoveringham, East Stoke, Newark, and Carlton-on-Trent, to the boundary with Lincoln near Dunham, and receives, in that	Imperial

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