Shephall or Sheephall, Hertfordshire
Historical Description
Shephall or Sheephall, a parish, with a village, in Herts, near the G.N.R., 2½ miles SSE of Stevenage, and 2 N from Knebworth stations on the G.N.R. main line. Post town, Stevenage; money order and telegraph office, Knebworth. Acreage, 1156; population, 206. The manor, with Shephall Bury, a fine mansion of red brick, standing in a park of 50 acres, belongs to the Heathcote family. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of St Albans; net value, £170 with residence. Patron, the Lord Chancellor. The church is an ancient building of flint in the Early English style, consisting of chancel, nave, N aisle, S porch, and western bell turret. There are numerous monuments to the Nodes family, who formerly owned Shephall Bury, dating from the 16th century.
Administration
The following is a list of the administrative units in which this place was either wholly or partly included.
| Ancient County | Hertfordshire | |
| Ecclesiastical parish | Shephall St. Mary | |
| Hundred | Cashio | |
| Liberty | St. Albans | |
| Poor Law union | St. Albans |
Any dates in this table should be used as a guide only.
Directories & Gazetteers
We have transcribed the entry for Shephall or Sheephall from the following:
- Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Shephall (St. Mary))
Land and Property
A full transcript of the Return of Owners of Land in 1873 for Hertfordshire is online.
Maps
Online maps of Shephall or Sheephall are available from a number of sites:
- Bing (Current Ordnance Survey maps).
- Google Streetview.
- National Library of Scotland. (Old maps)
- OpenStreetMap.
- old-maps.co.uk (Old Ordnance Survey maps to buy).
- Streetmap.co.uk (Current Ordnance Survey maps).
- A Vision of Britain through Time. (Old maps)
Newspapers and Periodicals
The British Newspaper Archive have fully searchable digitised copies of the following Hertfordshire newspapers online:
- Hertford Mercury and Reformer
- Herts Guardian, Agricultural Journal, and General Advertiser
- Watford Observer
Visitations Heraldic
The Visitations of Hertfordshire, 1572 and 1634. Edited by Walter C. Metcalfe, F.S.A. is available on the Heraldry page.