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Shalbourne
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Shalbourne is located in Wiltshire
Shalbourne
Shalbourne
Population 558 (in 2011)
OS grid reference SU3163
Unitary authority
  • Wiltshire
Ceremonial county
Region
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 Great Western
EU Parliament South West England
UK Parliament
  • Devizes
List of places
UK
England
Wiltshire
51°22′05″N 1°33′00″W / 51.368°N 1.550°W / 51.368; -1.550

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.

Amenities

Shalbourne has a primary school and a village hall which was built in 1843 as a schoolroom.

Notable people

Alexander Chocke of Shalbourne (1594–1625) was elected to Parliament for Ludgershall in 1621.

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 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.

Jethro Tull (1674–1741), agricultural pioneer, from 1709 owned Prosperous farm, close to the northeast boundary of the present parish.

See also

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