From the records: “A henge, taking the form of a penannular ring ditch, was discovered in the late 1980s, close to the River Ash, to the north of Shepperton Green.”

From the records: “Evidence of late-Iron Age and Saxon settlements was found at Shepperton Green in the late 1960s and early 1970s.”

From the records: “A church is believed to have stood on the site since the 7th century AD, though the majority of the present stone and flint building is thought to date from 1614, with the brick bell tower added in 1714.”

From the records: “Shepperton is recorded in Domesday Book of 1086 as Scepertone.”

From the records: “It is for this reason a bridge and ferry was recorded here from 1274 to 1410.”

From the records: “The River Thames was important for transport from the late 13th century and carried barley, wheat, peas and root vegetables to London's markets; later timber, building materials such as bricks, sand and lime, and gunpowder, see the Wey Navigation.”

From the records: “Also Grade II* listed is the c. 1500 timber framed Old Rectory refronted in the early 18th century, and including a reception hall built in 1498.”

From the records: “During this long period since the conquest the wealth of the local rector and his bishop was great: William Grocyn was rector 1504–1513 and was an Oxford classical academic who corresponded regularly with Erasmus and Lewis Atterbury (1707–31) expended much of the large parish revenues on having the large tower rebuilt.”

From the records: “The main body of the church is thought to date from 1614 and was a reconstruction following destruction of an earlier building by flood some years earlier. (The church is located on the north bank of the River Thames.) However, it is thought that some 12th and 13th century work is incorporated in the present structure.”

From the records: “From the 1760s—1860s a ropery was an industry here then from the 1860s—1870s brick clay was extracted.”

From the records: “While the village was wholly agricultural until the 19th century, there are originally expensive gravestones of the local minor gentry in the churchyard, two of which are dedicated to their naturalised black servants, Benjamin and Cotto Blake who both died in 1781.”

From the records: “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.”

From the records: “Stoner's Gut had posed difficulties to navigation and barges usually went to Weybridge including from the 17th century up the Wey and Godalming Navigations to the south.”

From the records: “Wealthy writers built or expanded homes here in the 19th century, primarily as summer residences, such as Rider Haggard, Thomas Love Peacock, George Meredith and Percy Bysshe Shelley.”

From the records: “The Shepperton branch opened to passengers on 1 November 1864.”

From the records: “The population of Shepperton, according to the census of 1801, was 731.”

From the records: “After re-opening in 1945, the studios changed hands.”

From the records: “Lower Halliford, a completely contiguous so also 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.”

From the records: “The studio was rebuilt and reopened in September 1958.”

From the records: “In July 2019, Netflix announced that it would be opening a hub at the studios.”

From the records: “In May 2026, Shepperton announced they had named one of the stages in honour of Dame Maggie Smith.”