Descriptive gazetteer entries

We have no further entries in our collection of 19th century descriptive gazetteers about Shalbourne, but we do have this information about localities within the associated parish or parishes. You may be able to find further references to Shalbourne in the descriptive gazetteers by doing a full-text search here.

Place	Type of entry	Source
FOSBURY	a chapelry	Imperial
NEWTOWN	a tything	Imperial

Descriptive gazetteer entries

In 1870-72, John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales described Shalbourne like this:

SHALBOURN, a village in Berks, and a parish partly also in Wilts; but all in Hungerford district. The village stands near Wans dyke, 2¾ miles E of Bedwyn r. station, and 4 S S W of Hungerford; and has a post-office under Hungerford. The parish contains also the hamlets of Bagshot and Oxenwood in Berks, and the hamlet of Newtown in Wilts. Acres of the B. portion, 2, 550; of the W. portion, 2, 805. Real property of the whole, £6, 879. Pop., 506 and 506. Houses, 105 and 113. Much of the property belongs ...

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to the Marquis of Ailesbury. Prosperous farm was the scene of the agriculturalexperiments of Jethro Tull. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Oxford. Value, £428.* Patrons, the Dean and Canons of Windsor. The church is good; and there are a parochial school, and charities £13.

This is the only descriptive gazetter entry we have found, but you may be able to find further references to Shalbourne by doing a full-text search here.

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Travel writing

This website includes the complete texts of books describing journeys around Britain, written between the twelfth and nineteenth centuries. Selecting one of the links below will take you to the first reference to Shalbourne within the selected text. This will not always be a description of a visit: travellers often mention places other than where they are, for example as a basis for comparison.

Traveller	Section	No. of Refs.
William Cobbett	Sept. 29th to Oct. 2nd, 1826: Ryall to Burghclere	1

This website includes two large libraries, of historical travel writing and of entries from nineteenth century gazetteers describing places. We have text from these sources available for these places near your location:

Place	Mentioned in Travel Writing	Mentioned in Hist. Gazetteer
Ham	0	2
Buttermere	0	2
Fosbury	0	2
Great Bedwyn	4	3
Tidcombe	0	2
Kinwardstone	0	2
Grafton	0	3
Inkpen	0	2
Little Bedwyn	0	3
Hippenscombe	0	2
Vernhams Dean	0	2
Combe	1	2
Froxfield	1	2
Linkenholt	0	2
Hungerford	14	2
Eddington	0	1
Chute	0	4
Burbage	0	2
West Woodhay	2	2
Kintbury	0	2