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| HER Number | MWB6080 |
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| Record Type | Monument |
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| Name | Site of GREAT SHEFFORD STATION |
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Summary
Former location of railway station on Lambourn Valley line, closed in 1960
Other Statuses and Cross-References
- Berkshire SMR No. (pre 2000): 05053.27.100
- National Monuments Record No.: SU 37 NE 71
SU 384 753
Monument Type(s):
- RAILWAY STATION (Late 19th century to Mid 20th century - 1898 AD to 1960 AD)
Full Description
Great Shefford station was opened (originally as West Shefford) in 1898 and closed in 1960 <6>. Subsequently, houses were built on the site, by 1980 as they are shown on the OS Fifth epoch map <7>.
A field visit on 19/4/2015 recorded that there was no trace of the station, except in the names of houses (2-4 The Old Railway Station) which evidently do not use anything of the original station building.
Sources and further reading
| <00> | East Garston Millennium Committee. 1999. East Garston, Past and Present - A Portrait for the Millennium. p33. [Monograph / SWB14034] |
| <01> | Price, M R C. 1977. The Lambourn Valley Railway. [Monograph / SWB148538] |
| <02> | Historic England (previously English Heritage). ?-present. NMR Buildings Files on Historic England Archive. BF005789. [Index / SWB147173]
https://historicengland.org.uk/images-books/photos/ (Accessed 21/04/2020) |
| <03> | Mitchell, V & Smith, K. 2001. Branch Line to Lambourn. [Monograph / SWB14647] |
| <04> | Robertson, K & Simmonds, R. 1984. The Lambourn Branch. [Monograph / SWB14646] |
| <05> | British Rail Western. 1973. Lambourn Valley Railway Scrapbook. [Monograph / SWB13540] |
| <06> | Simmonds, P. 2014. A history of the Berks and Hants line Reading to Westbury. p52, 80. [Monograph / SWB148853] |
| <07> | Ordnance Survey. 1962-1981. Ordnance Survey Epoch 5, 1:2500. 1:2500. [Map / SWB14665] |
| <08> | Page and Ditchfield (eds). 1924. Victoria County History (VCH) Berks IV 1924. Vol 4. p238. [Monograph / SWB10281]
http://www.british-history.ac.uk/vch/berks/vol4 (Accessed 24/09/2015) |
Related Monuments
| MWB6079 | WELFORD TO GREAT SHEFFORD RAILWAY LINE (Monument) |
Associated Excavations and Fieldwork
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