Sherfield Park, also known as Taylor's Farm, is a

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in the

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district of

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, England. It is situated about northeast of central

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, to the west of the

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that runs between Basingstoke and

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. The civil parish covers a housing estate that was built between 2004 and 2014 and now has 1,000 dwellings. The

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had until then mainly been part of Taylor's Farm, a name which has sometimes been used for the estate. The estate was originally part of the parish of

Sherfield on Loddon Sherfield on Loddon—formerly ''Sherfield upon Loddon''—is a village and civil parish in the English county of Hampshire. It is located at , approximately south of Reading and north of Basingstoke. At the 2001 census it had a pop ...

. Between 2008 and 2016, the area was a ward of this parish which was named Taylor's Farm.

History

The development was opened by the

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Keith Hill in March 2004. Councillors on

Basingstoke and Deane Borough Council Basingstoke ( ) is a town in Hampshire, situated in south-central England across a valley at the source of the River Loddon on the western edge of the North Downs. It is the largest settlement in Hampshire without city status in the United King ...

voted to create a separate Sherfield Park Parish Council on 26 March 2015 with 85% of councillors in favour. On 1 April 2016, Sherfield Park was separated to form a parish of its own,Parish review: Basingstoke and Deane borough council
/ref> with its first parish council being elected a month later. Sherfield Park is in the borough electoral ward of

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and the county council division of Loddon.

References

External links

Parish Council website

Community Centre website
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