SHERFIELD-UPON-LODDON, a parish, with a village, in Basingstoke district, Hants; adjacent to the Reading and Basingstoke railway, 4 miles NE by N of Basingstoke. Post town, Basingstoke. Acres, 2,236. Real property, £2,257. Pop., 693. Houses, 139. The manor belongs to J. B. Shane, Esq. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Winchester. Value, £680.* Patron, G. Barker, Esq. The church was recently restored. There are chapels for Independents and Primitive Methodists, an endowed school with £25 a year, and charities £7.

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