Why do we have nine Parish Councillors? Because in 1894 the parish asked that the newly created Parish Council have nine rather than the proposed five.
John Philpott, Compton’s martyr, Archdeacon of Winchester and fiercely Protestant son of the wealthy Catholic Philpott family. He was imprisoned, interrogated and burned at the stake in December 1555�.
Shawford Train derailment: In July 1952, after the driver misread a signal, a northbound train jumped the points just south of Shawford and was derailed.
Jim Newton: the soldier from Georgia who married a Hampshire girl he had met in the war and settled with his family in Shawford
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