Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for SHEPHALL, or Sheephall

SHEPHALL, or Sheephall, a parish, with a village, in Hitchin district, Herts; near the Great Northern railway, 2½ miles SSE of Stevenage. Post town, Stevenage. Acres, 1,142. Real property, £1,671. Pop., 243. Houses, 47. S. Bury is the seat of U. Heathcote, Esq. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Rochester. Value, £306.* Patron, the Lord Chancellor. The church is ancient. There are a national school, and charities £26.


(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "a parish, with a village"   (ADL Feature Type: "populated places")
Administrative units: Shephall CP/AP       Hitchin RegD/PLU       Hertfordshire AncC
Place names: SHEEPHALL     |     SHEPHALL     |     SHEPHALL OR SHEEPHALL
Place: Shephall

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