Sherfield English
Hampshire
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Cllr Nick Adams-King
TVBC Councillor for Blackwater Ward: Wellow, Awbridge, Michelmersh & Timsbury, Sherfield English and Plaitford & Melchet Park
Caroline Nokes MP
Member of Parliament for Romsey and Southampton North
UNDER NEW MANAGEMENT
Your village website is now being managed by Sherfield English District Community Association (possibly better known to you as SEDCA). In addition to delivering your monthly newsletter, we will now be developing this site to serve our community and provide the best level of information to those living here, working here, moving here or visiting here. Or even just those with a passing interest! We want this site to work for you, so please don't be shy in offering feedback on what you'd like to see here by contacting us via sedcanews@gmail.com.
Sherfield English . . . . An Introduction
Sherfield English is a small village in Hampshire, between the Test Valley and the New Forest, on the old Romsey to Salisbury road, now partly rerouted and known as the A27 or Salisbury Road.
For its size it has a surprising range of services and facilities, with a village hall, sports field, caravan & camping park with shop, farm shops, garden centre and tea rooms, garage and an active church. It is still quite largely a farming community.
Most of its houses, cottages and isolated farms are scattered down narrow leafy lanes, unseen by those who pass through on the main road. St Leonard's Church, Grade 2 listed, was built in 1902 by Lady Caroline Ashburton (of Melchet Court) in memory of her daughter. It houses some fine art nouveau style stained glass windows, the old village stocks, a 13th century coffin and various old carvings rescued from the medieval church near Manor Farm, and a particularly fine set of bells.
The Village Hall was built in the early 1920s in memory of the son of a major landowner, Henry Philpot, who was killed in WW1 and it is now run by charitable trust of volunteers. Mill Lane Meadows is a nature reserve run by Test Valley Borough Council and offers an open, but not secure space for dog walkers and others to enjoy.
Sherfield English has about 700 residents and a strong sense of community. There are a wide variety of groups, activities and events in the village, see our Whats On page for details!
And for a very thorough history, read Sherfield English - History in a Nutshell
