Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for SHIDFIELD

SHIDFIELD, a chapelry in Droxfield parish, Hants; 2 miles S by E of Bishops-Waltham r. station. It contains Shirrell-Heath hamlet, and has a post-office under Fareham. Pop., 937. Houses, 201. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Winchester. Value, £200.* Patron, the Rector of Droxford. The church was built in 1829.


(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))

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Feature Description: "a chapelry"   (ADL Feature Type: "countries, 4th order divisions")
Administrative units: Hampshire Ancient County
Place: Shedfield

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