Sherfield English is a small village and

civil parish In England, a civil parish is a type of administrative parish used for local government. It is a territorial designation which is the lowest tier of local government below districts and counties, or their combined form, the unitary authorit ...

in the

Test Valley Test Valley is a local government district and borough in Hampshire, England, named after the valley of the River Test. Its council is based in Andover. The borough was formed on 1 April 1974 by a merger of the boroughs of Andover and Romsey, a ...

borough of

Hampshire Hampshire (, ; abbreviated to Hants) is a ceremonial and non-metropolitan county in western South East England on the coast of the English Channel. Home to two major English cities on its south coast, Southampton and Portsmouth, Hampshire ...

, England. It is located on the A27 road, around 4 miles (6.4 km) west of Romsey. Sherfield English appears in

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of 1086 as the manor of ''Sirefelle'', derived from the Anglo-Saxon ''scir feld'', which probably means "bright open land". The suffix "English" probably comes from the L'Engleys family, who held the manor in the 14th century. The parish church is dedicated to St Leonard. It was built in 1902 with funds given by Lady Ashburton, and is Grade II listed. The village also contains a

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and a

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, The Hatchet Inn.

Notable people

* Charles Barton (1860–1919), first-class cricketer

References

Villages in Hampshire Test Valley {{Hampshire-geo-stub