Shalbourne facts for kids
Quick facts for kids Shalbourne |
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St. Michael and All Angels |
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Population | 558 (in 2011) |
OS grid reference | SU3163 |
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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 |
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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.
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
In Spanish: Shalbourne para niños