Shepperdine
Shepperdine is a small village in the parish of Oldbury-on-Severn in South Gloucestershire, England, with a border with Stroud District. The land lies wholly on the flood plain of the River Severn.
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OS grid reference | ST6295 |
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Country | England |
Sovereign state | United Kingdom |
Post town | Bristol |
Postcode district | BS35 |
Dialling code | 01454 |
Police | Avon and Somerset |
Fire | Avon |
Ambulance | South Western |
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The name, first recorded in 1215 as Shepewardin, means "sheep enclosure", from the Old English sceāp "sheep" and worthiġn "enclosure or farm".[1]
Landmarks
Shepperdine was well known as the location of a pub on the banks of the Severn, known as the Windbound (once formally known as the New Inn). The Windbound closed in 2004 and became a residential home, which itself closed. The building was demolished in 2015.[2]
Shepperdine has a Church of England chapel of ease (small church) dedicated to St Mary next to Manor Farm in Nupdown Road. It was rebuilt after a fire in 1897, and contains several Grade II listed tombs.[3] The ecclesiastical parish is Oldbury on Severn, whose cleric is the vicar of Thornbury and that small town was its medieval (ancient) parish; it is centred 3 miles (4.8 km) south-east.[4]
Shepperdine House features an early C19 facade, and has "three bays, with cornice and parapet, and square-columned porch".[5]
In a field to the northeast of the hamlet items of Roman and early medieval pottery have been unearthed.[6]
Nuclear power plant project
In the summer 2009 the German power company E.ON started to acquire land from local farmers with the intention of constructing of a 3,300 megawatt nuclear power station on the banks of the River Severn.[7] They formed a joint venture with German power company RWE. The two companies bought the existing Oldbury and Wylfa Magnox Nuclear Power Stations from the NDA for the sum of £500 million. RWE and Eon formed a company called Horizon to proceed with the development. In March 2012 it was announced that they had decided not to go ahead with the construction,[8] but in 2014 Horizon bought the former pub, the Windbound, for demolition to make way for the new power station.[2]
References
- Watts, Victor, ed. (2010), "Shepperdine", The Cambridge Dictionary of English Place-Names, Cambridge University Press, ISBN 9780521168557
- "Former pub to be demolished to make way for new nuclear power station". Gazette. Retrieved 29 August 2016.
- "St Arilda, Oldbury-on-Severn". The Church of England. Retrieved 29 August 2016.
- Samuel Lewis, ed. (1848). "Ogbourn - Oldham". A Topographical Dictionary of England. Institute of Historical Research. Retrieved 1 December 2014.
- Pevsner, Nikolaus (2002). The Buildings of England: Gloucestershire: The Vale and the Forest of Dream. Penguin Books. p. 668.
- Transactions - Bristol and Gloucestershire Archaeological Society. Bristol and Gloucestershire Archaeological Society. 1992. p. 89.
- "Environmental impact assessment" (PDF). Horizon Nuclear Power. November 2009. Retrieved 29 August 2016.
- "RWE and E.On halt UK nuclear plans at Wylfa and Oldbury". BBC. 29 March 2012. Retrieved 29 August 2016.