Shalbourne

File:Medieval coin, Quarter noble of Richard II (FindID 815285).jpg coin of Richard II, minted 1377{{endash}}1399 and found in Shalbourne in 2016{{cite web |url= https://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/record/id/815285 |title= Finds record for: BERK-DD8B11 |author= Byard, A |access-date= 28 Aug 2022 |publisher= The Portable Antiquities Scheme}}]]

Domesday Book of 1086 recorded a settlement of 48 households at Saldeborne or Scaldeburne.{{OpenDomesday|SU3163|shalbourne|Shalbourne}}

Under the Counties (Detached Parts) Act 1844, Oxenwood tithing was transferred from Berkshire to Wiltshire. Bagshot tithing was transferred in 1895, to complete the consolidation of the parish within Wiltshire.{{cite web|url=https://www.british-history.ac.uk/vch/berks/vol4/pp228-234|title=Victoria County History - Berkshire: Vol - pp228-234 - Parishes: Shalbourne|year=1924|website=British History Online|publisher=University of London|access-date=19 January 2020|editor-first1=William|editor-last1=Page|editor-first2=P.H.|editor-last2=Ditchfield}}

The Anglican Church of St Michael and All Angels is Grade II* listed. Built in flint and stone with tiled roofs, it dates from the 12th or 13th century and was partly rebuilt and extended by G.F. Bodley in 1873.{{cite web|url=https://apps.wiltshire.gov.uk/communityhistory/Church/Details/1304|title=Church of St. Michael and All Angels, Shalbourne|website=Wiltshire Community History|publisher=Wiltshire Council|access-date=19 April 2015}}{{NHLE|num=1184401|desc=Church of St Michael and All Angels, Shalbourned|access-date=19 April 2015|fewer-links=yes}}

The nave is either 12th century or a 13th-century rebuilding; reconstruction of the south aisle in the 19th century reused two 12th-century doorways.{{cite web|url=https://www.crsbi.ac.uk/sites?key=WXsiUCI6eyJUZXJtcyI6IlNoYWxib3VybmUifSwiRiI6ImV5SjBJanBiTmwxOSJ9|title=St Michael, Shalbourne, Wiltshire|website=Corpus of Romanesque Sculpture|publisher=King's College London|access-date=21 January 2020}} The chancel was rebuilt around 1300, and the tower added in the 15th century.

Three of the six bells in the tower are from the 17th century.{{cite web|url=http://dove.cccbr.org.uk/detail.php?DoveID=SHALBOURNE|title=Shalbourne|website=Dove's Guide for Church Bell Ringers|access-date=20 January 2020}} The east chancel window has 1871 stained glass by Kempe. A window by Henry Haig was added in 1995, from designs of Karl Parsons, who lived at Shalbourne from 1930 until the onset of ill health in 1933.{{Cite web|url=http://www.stainedglassrecords.org/Ch.asp?ChId=40504|title=Stained Glass Windows at St. Michael, Shalbourne|website=www.stainedglassrecords.org|access-date=2020-01-20|archive-date=26 January 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210126113051/https://stainedglassrecords.org/Ch.asp?ChId=40504|url-status=dead}}{{Citation|last=Loutit|first=Andrew|title=Shalbourne, St Michael. des. Karl Parsons|date=2010-09-16|url=https://www.flickr.com/photos/andrewox13/5081398509/|publisher=Flickr|access-date=2020-01-20}}

The benefice was united with that of Ham with Buttermere in 1956.{{London Gazette

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Also Grade II* listed are West Court farmhouse (15th and 17th centuries) and Shalbourne Manor farmhouse (16th century).{{NHLE|num=1033981|desc=West Court farmhouse, Shalbourne|access-date=19 April 2015|fewer-links=yes}}{{NHLE|num=1184699|desc=Shalbourne Manor farmhouse|access-date=19 April 2015|fewer-links=yes}}

The Shalbourne Stream flows northeast from its spring-fed source near Shalbourne village, to join the River Dun above Hungerford.{{Cite web|url=https://www.kennetcatchment.org/catchment/southern-streams/|title=Southern Streams|website=The Kennet Catchment|language=en-GB|access-date=2020-01-21}}{{Cite web|url=https://environment.data.gov.uk/catchment-planning/WaterBody/GB106039017370|title=Shalbourne|website=Catchment Data Explorer|publisher=Environment Agency|access-date=2020-01-21}}

The civil parish elects a parish council.{{Cite web |last= |first= |title=Shalbourne Parish Council |url=https://www.shalbourne.org/parish-council |website=shalbourne.org |date= |access-date=8 September 2024}} It is in the area of Wiltshire Council, a unitary authority, which is responsible for all significant local government functions.

Shalbourne has a primary school,{{cite web |title=Shalbourne C of E Primary School |url=https://www.shalbourne.wilts.sch.uk/ |access-date=19 April 2015}} and a village hall which was built in 1843 as a schoolroom.{{cite web |title=The Shalbourne Village Hall |url=http://apps.charitycommission.gov.uk/Showcharity/RegisterOfCharities/CharityWithoutPartB.aspx?RegisteredCharityNumber=309309&SubsidiaryNumber=0 |access-date=19 April 2015 |publisher=The Charity Commission}}{{NHLE|num=1365543|desc=Kingston Hall, Shalbourne|access-date=19 April 2015}} It has a cricket pitch and pavilion with a bar. At the centre of the village, near the village green, are the pub (The Plough) and a small post office and shop which sells a variety of products and refreshments. The shop stocks organic vegetables from Shalbourne's community project, a small allotment that sells vegetable boxes to the village and surroundings.

• Alexander Chocke of Shalbourne (1594–1625) was elected to Parliament for Ludgershall in 1621.{{Cite web|url=http://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1604-1629/member/chocke-alexander-ii-15934-1625|title=CHOCKE, Alexander II (1593/4-1625), of Shalbourne, Wilts.; later of Hungerford Park, Berks.|website=History of Parliament Online|access-date=2020-01-20}}
• From 1608 until late 1637, tenants of the parish's Westcourt Manor included William Carpenter and his namesake son, both of whom emigrated to Weymouth, Massachusetts in 1638 on the Bevis from Southampton. The younger William was a founder of Rehoboth, Massachusetts. The Rehoboth Carpenter family's descendants number in the tens of thousands, among whom are two U.S. presidents and a Project Mercury astronaut. William Carpenter [Jr.] married at Shalbourne in 1625 Abigail Briant, whose family had resided in the parish since at least the late 16th century.[http://carpentercousins.com/carplink.htm "Carpenter Sketches"], Eugene Cole Zubrinsky, FASG, (2009; see William1 and William2, Rehoboth section).
• Jethro Tull (1674–1741), agricultural pioneer, from 1709 owned Prosperous farm, close to the northeast boundary of the present parish.{{National Heritage List for England|num=1034015|desc=Prosperous|access-date=20 January 2020|fewer-links=yes}}
• Marguerite de Beaumont (1899–1989), founding member of Girl Guides, biographer of Lord Baden-Powell, and recipient of the Silver Fish Award, Girl Guiding's highest adult honour.

• Botley Down, a biological Site of Special Scientific Interest near Oxenwood

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• {{cite web|title=Shalbourne|url=https://apps.wiltshire.gov.uk/communityhistory/Community/Index/199|website=Wiltshire Community History|publisher=Wiltshire Council|access-date=19 April 2015}}
• [https://www.shalbourne.org/ Shalbourne village website]

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