Upper Shelton is a hamlet

Hamlet (place)

A hamlet is usually a rural settlement which is too small to be considered a village, though sometimes the word is used for a different sort of community. Historically, when a hamlet became large enough to justify building a church, it was then classified as a village...

 located in the Central Bedfordshire

Central Bedfordshire

Central Bedfordshire is a unitary authority in the ceremonial county of Bedfordshire, England. It was created from the merger of Bedfordshire County Council, Mid Bedfordshire and South Bedfordshire on 1 April 2009...

 district of Bedfordshire

Bedfordshire

Bedfordshire is a ceremonial county of historic origin in England that forms part of the East of England region.It borders Cambridgeshire to the north-east, Northamptonshire to the north, Buckinghamshire to the west and Hertfordshire to the south-east....

, England

England

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Upper Shelton contains a pub called "The Exhibition" (with a trojan horse in the back garden of the pub). There is also a lower school called "Shelton Lower School", as well as a butchers shop, village farm, and several bed and breakfast

Bed and breakfast

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 establishments.

The settlement is close to Cranfield

Cranfield

Cranfield is a village and civil parish in north west Bedfordshire, England, between Bedford and Milton Keynes. It has a population of 4,909, and is in Central Bedfordshire District....

, Stewartby

Stewartby

Stewartby is a model village and civil parish in Bedfordshire, originally built for the workers of The London Brick Company. The village housing and town community centre was designed by the noted neo-Georgian architect Sir Albert Richardson a later and more modern development than such...

 and Marston Moreteyne

Marston Moretaine

Marston Moretaine is a large village and civil parish located on the A421 between Bedford and Milton Keynes. It has a population of 3,684, and is served by Millbrook railway station, which is about a mile away, on the Marston Vale Line....

. Upper Shelton (along with Lower Shelton

Lower Shelton

For other settlements with the name Shelton in Bedfordshire, see Shelton, BedfordshireLower Shelton is a village in Bedfordshire county of England, In the parish of Marston Moreteyne....

) forms part of the Marston Moreteyne civil parish

Civil parish

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. The nearest large town to Upper Shelton is Bedford

Bedford

Bedford is the county town of Bedfordshire, in the East of England. It is a large town and the administrative centre for the wider Borough of Bedford. According to the former Bedfordshire County Council's estimates, the town had a population of 79,190 in mid 2005, with 19,720 in the adjacent town...

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