Shalbourne

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Shalbourne
St. Michael and All Angels
Shalbourne shown within Wiltshire
OS grid reference	SU3165
Shire county	Wiltshire
Region	South West
Constituent country	England
Sovereign state	United Kingdom
Police	Wiltshire
Fire	Wiltshire
Ambulance	Great Western
European Parliament	South West England
List of places: UK • England • Wiltshire

Coordinates: 51°23′N 1°33′W / 51.38, -1.55

Shalbourne is a village and civil parish in the English county of Wiltshire. Besides Shalbourne itself, the parish includes the widely spaced settlements of Bagshot to the north, and Rivar and Oxenwood to the south. Before 1895, Shalbourne was in Berkshire.

1 Location
2 Local government
3 Notable people
4 Sources

[edit] Location

Shalbourne is loacted at grid reference SU315630.

[edit] Local government

Shalbourne is a civil parish with an elected parish council. It falls within the areas of Kennet District Council and Wiltshire County Council. All three councils are responsible for different aspects of local government. In the 2001 census the parish had a population of 600.

[edit] Notable people

From 1608 until 1638, the village's Westcourt Manor was the residence of a William Carpenter senior and junior who emigrated to Weymouth, Massachusetts in 1638 on the ship Bevis from Southampton. William Carpenter junior was a founder of Rehoboth, Massachusetts. The Rehoboth Carpenter Family descendants number in the tens of thousands, among them two US presidents and a Project Mercury astronaut. William Carpenter junior married in 1625 an Abigail Bryant whose family were residents of the village from the 1500s.