Shackleford
| Shackleford | |
| Surrey | |
|---|---|
 Shackleford Post Office and Village Centre Sign | |
| Location | |
| Grid reference: | SU941451 |
| Location: | 51°11’51"N, 0°39’15"W |
| Data | |
| Population: | 770 (2011) |
| Post town: | Godalming |
| Postcode: | GU8 |
| Dialling code: | 01483 |
| Local Government | |
| Council: | Guildford |
| Parliamentary constituency: |
Guildford |
Shackleford is a village in Surrey centred to the west of the A3 between Guildford and Petersfield, five miles south-west of Guildford.
Name
The etymology of the "Shackle" element of the name is uncertain. It may be from Old English sceacol 'a shackle', perhaps with reference to a chain used to aid in crossing the river.[1] Alternatively, there may have been an unattested Old English adjective *sceacol 'shaky, loose' from the stem of the Old English verb sceacan 'to shake', perhaps with reference to the bed of the river.[2] It has also been suggested that the element might derive from an unattested Old English noun akin to Old High German scahho 'strip or tongue of land' or to Old Norse skekill as in útskekill 'the outskirts of a field', but there is nothing in the local topography pointing to such meanings.[3]
Parish church
St. Mary's Church was built in 1865, designed by Sir George Gilbert Scott. It stands in the outskirts of the Shackleford village centre at a nearby crossroads in the woodland locality of Norney.
History
The village does not appear in the Domesday Book of 1086; however, Hurtmore manor in the east of the parish and Rodsall manor, just to the west of the parish, a far-south part of Puttenham, do appear. The name first appears in 1220, as Sakelesford, and appears in a variety of mostly quite minor variants thereafter.
In 1349 a John de Shackleford was one of three persons enfeoffed of a nearby manor.[4]
Hall Place was a large house of Richard Wyatt, who built the Mead Row Almshouses in 1619, before Hall Place was rebuilt in the 19th century. For a time the estate office was used as an inn, known as the Cyder House.[5] Hall Place was acquired by Mr. William Edgar Horne, who turned it into a modern mansion. With gardens designed by Gertrude Jekyll, and in the 1940s it was sold and converted into what became Aldro School. Its panelling and overmantel of the dining-room came from the Cock Tavern in Fleet Street, London; its gallery railings in the hall came from the Old Banqueting Hall at Whitehall Palace.[5][6]
Hurtmore Manor was held by Sir Edward More of Odiham who before his death in 1623 left this to his daughter and her husband Sir William Staunton, recusant convict, and stating he should have the house free of rent for life – the manor was sold by later relatives to executors of Simon Bennett of Calverton, one of the daughters of whom married James Cecil, later 4th Earl of Salisbury. James Cecil, 1st Marquess of Salisbury sold the estate with much later belonging to the Richardson, Keen and Frankland families.[5]
Many of the houses that still stand today were built in the 18th century, although there was a further expansion of the village when the railway line was constructed between London and Portsmouth during the mid 19th century, passing through nearby Godalming and Farncombe. At the centre of the village are sixteen listed buildings
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References
- ↑ Victor Watts, ed. (2004) The Cambridge Dictionary of English Place-Names, Cambridge University Press, s.n. Shackleford. ISBN 0-521-36209-1.
- ↑ Place-Names
- ↑ A.H. Smith (1956). English Place-Name Elements, Part II (Jafn-Ytri), English Place-Name Society, Volume XXVI, s.v. sceacol.
- ↑ A History of the County of Surrey - Volume 3 pp 16-24: Parishes: Compton (Victoria County History)
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 5.2 A History of the County of Surrey - Volume 3 pp 24-42: Parishes: Godalming (Victoria County History)
- ↑ National Heritage List 1188841: Dovecot/Cider House to Aldro School (Grade II listing)
