SHEFFORD (West or Great), a village and a parish in Hungerford district, Berks. The village stands on the river Lambourn, 5½ miles N by W of Kintbury r. station, and 5½ NE by N of Hungerford; and has a post-office, of the name of Great S., under Hungerford. The parish contains also the hamlet of Shefford-Woodlands, which like wise has a post-office under Hungerford. Acres, 2,196. Real property, £3,806. Pop., 538. Houses, 123. The manor and most of the land belong to the Marquis of Downshire. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Oxford. Value, £856.* Patron, Brasenose College, Oxford. The church is ancient but good; and has a round Norman tower, with octagonal perpendicular upper story. There are chapels for Wesleyans and Primitive Methodists, a parochial school, and charities £12.

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