SHEPHALL, or Sheephall, a parish, with a village, in Hitchin district, Herts ; near the Great Northern railway, 2 ½ 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.
Source: The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales [Wilson, John M]. A. Fullarton & Co. N. d. c. [1870-72].

