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Great Shefford (or West Shefford) is a village and civil parish on the River Lambourn in West Berkshire, England. The modern civil parish includes the historical parish of Little or East Shefford, a small, much-reduced community downstream.^[2] It also covers the village of Shefford Woodlands, about {{convert|1.5|mi}} south-west of Great Shefford, near Junction 14 on the M4 motorway.

Toponymy

Amenities

Great Shefford village has a primary school. It also has a pub-restaurant, the Swan Inn,^[3] a shop and a petrol station.

Churches

St Mary

The Church of England parish church of Saint Mary is one of two existing round-tower churches in Berkshire. The other one is at St Gregory's parish church at nearby Welford.

Unlike the three round-towered churches in Sussex, where the towers are plain flint cylinders with few openings, the tower at Great Shefford is built up of sections with ample fenestration, more like the East Anglian type. The base of the tower at least seems to date from the 13th century, and it joins the west wall of the nave in such a way that suggests it was constructed at the same time as the nave, which shows early gothic features.

St Mary's belongs to the West Downland Benefice, a group of eight neighbouring churches. There is a service held at St Mary's on the first, second and third Sunday of the month.^[4]

St Stephen

The church of Saint Stephen at Shefford Woodlands is a former Methodist chapel that was consecrated as part of St Mary's Church of England parish in 1911.^[5]

St Thomas

St Thomas' Church, East Shefford is redundant. However, it is listed as a Grade I historical building and contains important monuments to the widespread Fettiplace family.

Demography

The 2011 Census recorded a parish population of 937,^[6] and 880 are listed on the Millennium Stone opposite the petrol station. The population had grown by approximately 5 per cent since the 2011 census.

Notable people

Transport

Public transport

Bus Service 4 (Newbury–Lambourn) serves Great Shefford.^[7] From 1898 until 1960 the parish was served by Great Shefford railway station on the Lambourn Valley Railway. The nearest mainline station today is Newbury (10.5 miles/16 km), where the journey times to London Paddington are 50–67 minutes.

Roads

The A338 between Hungerford to the south and Wantage to the north runs through the village, one-and-a-half miles north of Junction 14 on the M4 motorway.

References

1. ^¹Key Statistics: Dwellings; Quick Statistics: Population Density; Physical Environment: Land Use Survey 2005
2. ^{{cite web |url= http://www.berkshirehistory.com/churches/eastshefford.html |title=Royal Berkshire History |last=Ford |first=David Nash |work=East Shefford St. Thomas' Church |accessdate=24 March 2010}}
3. ^Own site [https://theswan-inn.co.uk/ Retrieved 3 March 2019.]
4. ^¹[https://www.achurchnearyou.com/church/5881/ A Church Near You. Retrieved 5 December 2018].
5. ^{{cite web |url= http://www.greatshefford.org.uk/main.asp?pid=62&child=92,47,90,91,93,121,&pagetitle=History_of_Great_Shefford |title=History of Great Shefford |work=Great Shefford and Shefford Woodlands |publisher=The Parish of Great Shefford |accessdate=23 July 2013}}
6. ^Population site [https://www.citypopulation.de/php/uk-england-southeastengland.php?cityid=E34002485 Retrieved 11 July 2018.]
7. ^{{cite web |url=http://www.newburyanddistrict.co.uk/pdf/jan13/Connect-service-4.pdf |title=Connect Service 4 |work=Timetables |publisher=Newbury and District Buses |format=pdf |accessdate=23 July 2013}}