Place:Shephall, Hertfordshire, England

source: Family History Library Catalog

Shephall was a village and parish in Hertfordshire, England. In 1946 its territory was included within the New Town of Stevenage. The modern borough of Stevenage is approximately equivalent to the two ancient parishes of Stevenage and Shephall.

A Vision of Britain through Time provides the following description of Shephall from John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales of 1870-72:

"SHEPHALL, or Sheephall, a parish, with a village, in Hitchin [registration] district, Herts; near the Great Northern railway, 2½ miles SSE of Stevenage. Post town: Stevenage. Acres: 1,142. Real property: £1,671. Population: 243. Houses: 47. [Shephall] 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."

Research Tips

• Hertfordshire Archives and Local Studies, Register Office Block CHR002, County Hall, Hertford SG13 8EJ. Indexes and Catalog
• GENUKI on Hertfordshire (individual parishes covered separately)
• Hertfordshire Family History Society
• The hundred of Cashio: Introduction as provided by British History Online in the Victoria County History of Hertfordshire, volume 2, pp 319-322
• The parish of Shephall ibid, volume 2, pp 443-446
• Ordnance Survey map of Hertfordshire 1900 provided by A Vision of Britain through Time
• Ordnance Survey map of Hertfordshire 1944 provided by A Vision of Britain through Time