Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for SHIPTON-UPON-CHERWELL

SHIPTON-UPON-CHERWELL, a. parish in Woodstock district, Oxford; on the Oxford and Birmingham railway, 2½ miles E by S of Woodstock. Post town, Kidlington, under Oxford. Acres, 1,220. Real property, £1,022. Pop., 131. Houses, 25. The manor, with S. House, belongs to the Duke of Marlborough. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Oxford. Value, £310.* Patron, the Duke of Marlborough. The church is later English. There is a national school.


(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))

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Administrative units: Oxfordshire AncC
Place: Shipton on Cherwell

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