Shepperton Middlesex Family History Guide
Shepperton is an Ancient Parish in the county of Middlesex.
Other places in the parish include: Lower Halliford.
Alternative names:
Parish church:
Parish registers begin:
- Parish registers: 1574
- Bishop’s Transcripts: 1629-30; 1829
Nonconformists include:
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Adjacent Parishes
- Addlestone, Surrey
- Chertsey, Surrey
- Weybridge, Surrey
- Walton-on-Thames, Surrey
- Littleton
- Sunbury on Thames
Parish History
The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870
SHEPPERTON, a village and a parish in Staines district, Middlesex. The village stands on the river Thames, at the terminus of the Thames Valley railway, 2 miles E of Chertsey; was known, at Domesday, as Scepertone; and has a station with telegraph on the railway, and a post-office under Chertsey.
The parish contains also the hamlet of Lower Halliford, and comprises 1,541 acres. Real property, £6,132. Pop., 849. Houses, 188. The manor belonged, at Domesday, to Westminster abbey; and passed to the Beauchamps and others. There are several fine villas. An oak canoe, 12 feet long, was found in 1812, near the river, 7 feet below the surface.
The living is a rectory in the diocese of London. Value, £590. Patron, the Rev. J. Govett. The church dates from 1310, is cruciform, and has a tower of about 1760. There are a mission chapel of 1867, and a national school. Grocyn, the friend of Erasmus, was rector.
Source: The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales [Wilson, John M]. A. Fullarton & Co. N. d. c. [1870-72].
Parish Records
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Administration
- County: Middlesex
- Civil Registration District: Staines
- Probate Court: Court of the Archdeaconry of Middlesex
- Diocese: London
- Rural Deanery: Not created until 1858
- Poor Law Union: Staines
- Hundred: Spelthorne
- Province: Canterbury