Great Shefford

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Great Shefford
Great Shefford shown within Berkshire
OS grid reference	SU383753
Parish	Great Shefford
Unitary authority	West Berkshire
Ceremonial county	Berkshire
Region	South East
Constituent country	England
Sovereign state	United Kingdom
Police	Thames Valley
Fire	Royal Berkshire
Ambulance	South Central
European Parliament	South East England
UK Parliament	Newbury
List of places: UK • England • Berkshire

Coordinates: 51°28′31″N 1°26′53″W / 51.47515, -1.44798

Great Shefford St. Mary

Great Shefford (or West Shefford) is a village and civil parish in the English county of Berkshire.

It is situated in the district of West Berkshire, on the river Lambourn. The modern civil parish includes the historical parish of Little or East Shefford, a small hamlet downstream. The tiny church there contains important monuments to the widespread Fettiplace family. The parish also includes the village of Shefford Woodlands, approximately a mile to the south of Great Shefford and close to M4 junction 14.

The name of both Sheffords is derived from 'sheep ford'. Great Shefford village has a pub, school, shop and petrol station, and about a thousand inhabitants (880 listed on the 'Millennium Stone' located opposite the petrol station).

Great Shefford St. Mary is one of 2 existing round-tower churches in Berkshire, the other one being Welford St. Gregory, in the nearby village of Welford.

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Settlements in West Berkshire
Towns: Hungerford \| Newbury \| Thatcham
Civil parishes: Aldermaston \| Aldworth \| Ashampstead \| Basildon \| Beech Hill \| Beedon \| Beenham \| Boxford \| Bradfield \| Brightwalton \| Brimpton \| Bucklebury \| Burghfield \| Catmore \| Chaddleworth \| Chieveley \| Cold Ash \| Combe \| Compton \| East Garston \| East Ilsley \| Enborne \| Englefield \| Farnborough \| Fawley \| Frilsham \| Great Shefford \| Greenham \| Hampstead Norreys \| Hamstead Marshall \| Hermitage \| Holybrook \| Inkpen \| Kintbury \| Lambourn \| Leckhampstead \| Midgham \| Padworth \| Pangbourne \| Peasemore \| Purley-On-Thames \| Shaw-cum-Donnington \| Speen \| Stanford Dingley \| Stratfield Mortimer \| Streatley \| Sulhamstead \| Theale \| Tidmarsh with Sulham \| Tilehurst \| Ufton Nervet \| Wasing \| Welford \| West Woodhay \| West Ilsley \| Winterbourne \| Woolhampton \| Yattendon
Other villages and suburbs: \| Aldermaston Wharf \| Ashmore Green \| Bagnor \| Burnt Hill \| Calcot \| Donnington \| Eastbury \| Halfway \| Hell Corner \| Lambourn Woodlands \| Little Heath \| Lower Basildon \| Marsh Benham \| Shaw \| South Fawley \| Stockcross \| Upper Basildon \| Upper Lambourn \| Upper Woolhampton \| Wash Common \| Weston \| Woodlands St Mary \| World's End