Shepperton'spperton is equidistant between the towns of Chertsey and Sunbury-on-Thames.
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14 Facts About Shepperton
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In 1930 on the rural district's abolition, Shepperton became part of the Sunbury-on-Thames Urban District until its dissolution into a reduced and reconfigured county of Surrey in 1965.
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Old parts of Shepperton are said to be haunted by the ghost of a headless monk.
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Shepperton'spperton has a traditional high street, shorter than that at nearby Ashford with two medium-size supermarkets, village hall, library, shops, optician, hairdressers, a wide range of restaurants, several cafes, with the railway terminus at the northern end.
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Thames Water manages Shepperton's drinking and waste water; water supplies being sourced from the London sources including several reservoirs fed by the River Thames locally.
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Shepperton'spperton has a long boundary with the River Thames in its southernmost salient, which almost surrounds Spelthorne.
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Old Shepperton is almost surrounded by the extreme southern meander within this.
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The towpath is the official route of three passing through the Shepperton reaches as heading upstream from Hampton Court Palace another marked version takes Walton Bridge, the official version takes the Shepperton-Weybridge Ferry and another marked version crosses to the north bank at Chertsey Bridge.
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Lower Halliford, a completely contiguous so integral part of Shepperton, used to be home to Halliford Film Studios, opposite the Manygate Lane conservation area, built in 1955 and one of the first film studios devoted to TV commercial production.
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Shepperton'spperton was the home of author J G Ballard, the so-called "Seer of Shepperton'spperton", and provides the setting for his novels Crash and The Unlimited Dream Company.
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Shepperton'spperton is mentioned in the novel The War of the Worlds by H G Wells, in which its destruction is described along with nearby settlements.
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Turner painted in 1805 two scenes of the shimmering river and fishermen on the far banks of the Lower Halliford part of Shepperton including the wide landscape work Walton Bridges widely exhibited in 1807 following a previous similar work by Canaletto of the scene in 1754.
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Shepperton'spperton has a thriving cricket club, which has teams in the Fullers Surrey County League.
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Jubilee Church, Shepperton was formed as a new church in 1982 to celebrate in modern "mainstream Christianity" being less focussed on ceremony than the two oldest UK churches.
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