Shepperdine

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Shepperdine
Gloucestershire
Old stone-built farmhouse at Shepperdine. - geograph.org.uk - 314762.jpg
Location
Grid reference: ST620954
Location: 51°39’23"N, 2°32’59"W
Data
Post town: Bristol
Postcode: BS35
Dialling code: 01454
Local Government
Council: South Gloucestershire
Parliamentary
constituency:
Thornbury and Yate

Shepperdine is a small village in the parish of Oldbury-on-Severn in Gloucestershire, close to the shore of the Severn Estuary, and the whole village is on the flood plain of the River Severn.

The name, first recorded in 1215 as Shepewardin, means "sheep enclosure", from the Old English sceap ("sheep") and worþign "enclosure or farm".[1][2]

Landmarks

Shepperdine was well known as the location of a pub on the banks of the Severn, known as the Windbound (once formally known as the New Inn). The Windbound closed in 2004 and became a residential home, which itself closed. The building was demolished in 2015.[3]

Shepperdine has a Church of England chapel of ease dedicated to St Mary next to Manor Farm in Nupdown Road. It was rebuilt after a fire in 1897, and contains several Grade II listed tombs.[4] The chapel is part of the parish of Oldbury-on-Severn, whose cleric is the vicar of Thornbury: the ancient parish of Thornbury encompassed Shepperdine.[5]

Shepperdine House features an early C19 facade, and has "three bays, with cornice and parapet, and square-columned porch".[6]

In a field to the northeast of the hamlet items of Roman and early mediæval pottery have been unearthed.[7]

Nuclear power plant project

In the summer 2009 the German power company E.ON started to acquire land from local farmers with the intention of constructing of a 3,300 megawatt nuclear power station on the banks of the River Severn.[8] They formed a joint venture with German power company RWE. The two companies bought the existing Oldbury and Wylfa Magnox Nuclear Power Stations from the NDA for the sum of £500 million. RWE and Eon formed a company called Horizon to proceed with the development. In March 2012 it was announced that they had decided not to go ahead with the construction,[9] but in 2014 Horizon bought the former pub, the Windbound, for demolition to make way for the new power station.[3]

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References