page_title: Shortstown
section_title: Education
hierarchical_section_title: Shortstown / Education
caption_attribution_description: English: Current Shortstown Primary School
context_page_description: Shortstown is a village and civil parish on the outskirts of Bedford, on a ridge above the River Great Ouse, originally called Tinkers Hill.
  This ridge also overlooks the two other parts of Eastcotts – Harrowden to the north and Cotton End to the south.
  The name is taken from Short Brothers. The Admiralty established an airship works for the company in 1916. The company pulled out of airship work just three years later, but the name Shortstown stuck.
context_section_description: Despite houses having been built from 1917 onwards, Shortstown had no school until the mid 1950s. Some children from Shortstown seem to have attended that school as well as going to Cotton End School.
  The first headmaster of this school was Mr Evans. A road in the village was supposedly named after him.
  A new school named Shortstown Primary School was built in New Cardington: starting construction in late 2012 and completed in September 2013. This school replaced the old, and now demolished school named Shortstown Lower School, where new houses now stand.
caption: Current Shortstown Primary School.
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