Shalbourne

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Shalbourne
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St. Michael and All Angels
Shalbourne is located in Wiltshire
Shalbourne
Shalbourne
 Shalbourne shown within Wiltshire
Population 558 (in 2011)[1]
OS grid reference SU3163
Unitary authority Wiltshire
Ceremonial county Wiltshire
Region South West
Country England
Sovereign state United Kingdom
Post town Marlborough
Postcode district SN8
Post town Hungerford
Postcode district RG17
Dialling code 01672
Police Wiltshire
Fire Wiltshire
Ambulance South Western
EU Parliament South West England
UK Parliament Devizes
Website www.shalbourne.org
List of places
UK
England
Wiltshire

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Shalbourne is a civil parish in the English county of Wiltshire, about 3 miles (4.8 km) southwest of Hungerford, Berkshire. Besides a village of the same name, the parish has a number of widely spaced small settlements including Bagshot and Stype, to the north, and Rivar and Oxenwood to the south. Before 1895, about half of the parish of Shalbourne (including its church) lay in Berkshire.

Local government

The civil parish elects a parish council. It is in the area of Wiltshire Council unitary authority, which is responsible for all significant local government functions.

Amenities

Shalbourne has a primary school[2] and a village hall[3] which was built in 1843 as a schoolroom.[4]

Notable people

  • From 1608 until late 1637, tenants of the parish's Westcourt Manor included William Carpenter and his namesake son, both of whom emigrated to Weymouth, Massachusetts in 1638 on the Bevis from Southampton. The younger William Carpenter was a founder of Rehoboth, Massachusetts. The Rehoboth Carpenter family's descendants number in the tens of thousands, among whom are two U.S. presidents and a Project Mercury astronaut. William Carpenter [Jr.] married at Shalbourne in 1625 Abigail Briant, whose family had resided in the parish since at least the late 16th century.[5]
  • Jethro Tull, agricultural pioneer, owned a farm in the parish.

Notable buildings

The Anglican Church of St Michael and All Angels is Grade II* listed.[6] It dates from the 13th century and was partly rebuilt and extended by G.F. Bodley in 1873.[7] Stained glass by Henry Haig was added in 1995.

Also Grade II* listed are West Court farmhouse[8] and Shalbourne Manor farmhouse.[9]

See also

Sources

References

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  5. Eugene Cole Zubrinsky, FASG, "Carpenter Sketches" (2009; see William1 and William2, Rehoboth section).
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