Shepperdine
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Shepperdine is a small village in the parish of
The name, first recorded in 1215 as Shepewardin, means "sheep enclosure", from the Old English sceāp "sheep" and worthiġn "enclosure or farm".[1]
Landmarks
Shepperdine was well known as the location of a pub on the banks of the Severn, known as the Windbound (once formally known as the New Inn). The Windbound closed in 2004 and became a residential home, which itself closed. The building was demolished in 2015.[2]
Shepperdine has a
Shepperdine House features an early C19 facade, and has "three bays, with cornice and parapet, and square-columned porch".[6]
In a field to the northeast of the hamlet items of Roman and early medieval pottery have been unearthed.[7]
Nuclear power plant project
In the summer 2009 the German power company
References
- ISBN 9780521168557
- ^ a b "Former pub to be demolished to make way for new nuclear power station". Gazette. Retrieved 29 August 2016.
- ^ "St Mary's Shepperdine". www.achurchnearyou.com. Retrieved 31 August 2021.
- ^ "St Arilda, Oldbury-on-Severn". The Church of England. Retrieved 29 August 2016.
- ^ Samuel Lewis, ed. (1848). "Ogbourn - Oldham". A Topographical Dictionary of England. Institute of Historical Research. Retrieved 1 December 2014.
- ^ Pevsner, Nikolaus (2002). The Buildings of England: Gloucestershire: The Vale and the Forest of Dream. Penguin Books. p. 668.
- ^ Transactions - Bristol and Gloucestershire Archaeological Society. Bristol and Gloucestershire Archaeological Society. 1992. p. 89.
- ^ "Environmental impact assessment" (PDF). Horizon Nuclear Power. November 2009. Retrieved 29 August 2016.
- ^ "RWE and E.On halt UK nuclear plans at Wylfa and Oldbury". BBC. 29 March 2012. Retrieved 29 August 2016.
External links
Media related to Shepperdine at Wikimedia Commons