Shalbourne

Coordinates: 51°23′N 1°33′W / 51.38°N 1.55°W / 51.38; -01.55

Shalbourne
St. Michael and All Angels
Shalbourne  Shalbourne shown within Wiltshire
OS grid reference	SU3165
Unitary authority	Wiltshire
Ceremonial county	Wiltshire
Region	South West
Constituent country	England
Sovereign state	United Kingdom
Police	Wiltshire
Fire	Wiltshire
Ambulance	Great Western
European Parliament	South West England
List of places: UK • England • Wiltshire

Shalbourne is a civil parish in the English county of Wiltshire. Besides a village of the same name, the parish includes the widely spaced settlements of Bagshot 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.

Location

Shalbourne is located at grid reference SU315630.

Local government

Shalbourne is a civil parish with an elected parish council. It also falls within the area of the Wiltshire Council unitary authority, which is responsible for all significant local government functions. In the 2001 census the parish had a population of 600.

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 1500s.^[1]

Sources

• Wiltshire County Council Website page on Shalbourne, retrieved 20:15 Oct 29, 2004 (UTC)
• Kennet District Council Website page on Shalbourne Parish, retrieved 20:15 Oct 29, 2004 (UTC)

References

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