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Shepherdswell (also Sibertswold) is a village in the civil parish of Shepherdswell with Coldred, and the Dover District of Kent, England.

Shepherdswell
St Andrew's Church, Shepherdswell
Shepherdswell Location within Kent
Population	1,849 (2011)[1]
OS grid reference	TR259480
Civil parish	Shepherdswell with Coldred
District	Dover
Shire county	Kent
Region	South East
Country	England
Sovereign state	United Kingdom
Post town	Dover
Postcode district	CT15
Dialling code	01304
Police	Kent
Fire	Kent
Ambulance	South East Coast
UK Parliament	Dover
List of places UK England Kent 51.1866°N 1.2312°E / 51.1866; 1.2312

Culture and community

Village social life centres on the local Grade I listed church 'Church of St Andrew',[2] and the village hall which is hosts events including charity jumble sales and a pre-school playgroup. The village pub is the Grade II listed Bell by the village green,[3] near to the church. Additionally the village has a Co-op mini-supermarket.

Shepherdswell is significant for the East Kent Railway, whose terminus is sited there. This was originally one of Colonel Stephens's lines and ran to Wingham. The section as far as Eythorne is now run by a preservation society. It has a mainline railway station named Shepherds Well with direct trains to Dover and London via Faversham.

The village is on the Miner's Way Trail. The trail links the coalfield parishes of East Kent.[4] In the village it links with the North Downs Way, which also passes through the village between Whitfield and Woolage Village.

Sport

Shepherdswell is also home the "Shepherdswell Spartans Football Club". Football has been played in the village of Shepherdswell for at least 98 years. Originally the team was called Shepherdswell FC and played from about 1908 until 1965. The name of the next major club in the village was the Whitehall Spartans, who played for most of the 1970s; they became responsible for the name of today's current team. In 1983–84, a team was formed again and named after their then sponsors A1 Taxis which entered the Dover District Sunday League. By the start of the next season their name had reverted to Shepherdswell Spartans as the main team in the village. They took the name Spartans from the local pub, The Whitehall Inn, which was their social base until the pub was shut down in 1989.

Shepherdswell's cricket team is Shepherdswell C.C. The team plays "friendly" village fixtures from May to September each year against other Kent teams.

Both the football and cricket teams play on Shepherdswell Recreation Ground.

References

External links

Media related to Shepherdswell at Wikimedia Commons

• http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=63577
• http://www.kentchurches.info/church.asp?p=Shepherdswell
• http://www.kentarchaeology.org.uk/Research/Libr/VisRec/S/SIB/Gallery.htm

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