Shepreth

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Shepreth is a small village in South Cambridgeshire. Shepreth railway station is on the Great Northern Line, the main line between Cambridge and London.

It contains a wildlife park (Willers Mill, a.k.a. Shepreth Wildlife Park), a nature reserve, Shepreth L-Moor, and one of the UK's only insect research laboratories.

[edit] Church History

The church of All Saints is an ancient edifice of brick and flint in the Early English style, consisting of nave and a low western tower containing two bells. The chancel arch is pre-Norman; there are some monuments to the Layer family (who formerly possessed property here) dated 1730, 1743 and 1760. There is also an ancient font of Barnack stone, and an old oak treasure chest which was unearthed about 1895. The church was restored in 1870, and affords 120 sittings. The register dates from the year 1569.

There is a Congregational chapel, erected in 1901 and seating 120 persons. A stone cross was erected on Pretty Corner in 1920, in memory of the men from the parish who fell in the Great War, 1914-18.

[edit] Church Records

[edit] Church of England

Shepreth, All Saints: Records of baptisms 1559-1940, marriages 1559-1935, burials 1566-1968 and banns 1754-1812, 1823-1939 reside in the Cambridge Record Office. Indexed transcripts exist in the Cambridge Record Office for baptisms 1559-1837, marriages 1559-1836 and burials 1559-1837. The Bishop's Transcripts for the years 1599-1757, 1773-1871 can be found in the Cambridge University Library.