Shepperdine is a small village in the parish of

Oldbury-on-Severn Oldbury-on-Severn is a small village near the mouth of the River Severn in the South Gloucestershire district of the county of Gloucestershire in the west of England. The parish, which includes the village of Cowhill had a population at the 2011 ...

South Gloucestershire South Gloucestershire is a unitary authority area in the ceremonial county of Gloucestershire, South West England. Towns in the area include Yate, Chipping Sodbury, Thornbury, Filton, Patchway and Bradley Stoke, the latter three forming ...

, England, with a border with Stroud District. The land lies wholly on the flood plain of the

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. The name, first recorded in 1215 as ''Shepewardin'', means "sheep enclosure", from the

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''sceāp'' "sheep" and ''worthiġn'' "enclosure or farm".

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. Shepperdine has a

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chapel of ease (small church) dedicated to St Mary next to Manor Farm in Nupdown Road. It is a

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. The

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is Oldbury on Severn, whose cleric is the vicar of Thornbury and that small town was its medieval (ancient) parish; it is centred south-east. Shepperdine House features an early C19 facade, and has "three bays, with cornice and parapet, and square-columned porch". In a field to the northeast of the hamlet items of Roman and early medieval pottery have been unearthed.

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. They formed a joint venture with German power company

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. 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, but in 2014 Horizon bought the former pub, the Windbound, for demolition to make way for the new power station.

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{{South Gloucestershire Populated places on the River Severn Villages in South Gloucestershire District Hamlets in Gloucestershire