Shipley, West Sussex

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Coordinates: 50°59′07″N 0°22′15″W / 50.98539°N 0.37078°W

Shipley
Shipley Church seen from the windmill
Shipley Shipley shown within West Sussex
Area	31.26 km² (12.07 sq mi) ^[1]
Population	1,075 ^[1] 2001 Census
- Density	34 /km² (88 /sq mi)
OS grid reference	TQ144219
- London	37 miles (60 km) NNE
Civil parish	Shipley
District	Horsham
Shire county	West Sussex
Region	South East
Country	England
Sovereign state	United Kingdom
Post town	HORSHAM
Postcode district	RH13
Dialling code	01403
Police	Sussex
Fire	West Sussex
Ambulance	South East Coast
EU Parliament	South East England
UK Parliament	Horsham
List of places UK England West Sussex

Shipley is a village and civil parish in the Horsham District of West Sussex, England. It lies just off the A272 road six miles (9.6 km) north east of Storrington.

Shipley is first mentioned in a charter of 1073 as Scapeleia, and in the Domesday Book of 1086 as Sepelei. The name derives from the Old English scēap ('sheep') and lēah ('open ground, such as meadow, pasture, or arable land'). Thus it means 'sheep-clearing' or 'sheep-pasture'.^[2]

The western River Adur flows through the village, where it meets a significant tributary, Lancing Brook.

The parish has a land area of 3125 hectares (7720 acres). In the 2001 census 1075 people lived in 448 households of whom 596 were economically active.

Shipley was home to Hilaire Belloc^[3] who in 1906 purchased Kings Land, with a house, 5 acres (20,000 m²) and Shipley Windmill, which was used in the television series Jonathan Creek as Creek's residence.^[4]

Hamlets

Other villages located in the parish include:

Broomer's Corner

References

↑ 1.0 1.1 "2001 Census: West Sussex – Population by Parish". West Sussex County Council. Retrieved 12 April 2009.
↑ The Cambridge Dictionary of English Place-Names Based on the Collections of the English Place-Name Society, ed. by Victor Watts (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004), s.v. SHIPLEY.
↑ Schoolnet on Belloc
↑ "Shipley Windmill". www.shipleywindmill.org.uk. Retrieved 2010-07-12.

External links

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Shipley Windmill Website

v t e Settlements in Horsham District

Towns	Horsham Steyning

Villages and hamlets	Adversane Amberley Annington Ashington Ashurst Barns Green Billingshurst Bines Green Blackstone Botolphs Bramber Broadbridge Heath Broadford Bridge Brooks Green Buncton Codmore Hill Coldwaltham Colgate Coneyhurst Coolham Cootham Copsale Cowfold Crabtree Dial Post Dragon's Green Edburton Faygate Five Oaks Gay Street Greatham Hardham Heath Common Henfield Itchingfield Kingsfold Lambs Green Littlehaven Littleworth Lower Beeding Mannings Heath Maplehurst Marehill Monk's Gate North Heath North Stoke Nutbourne Nuthurst Parham Partridge Green Pulborough Rackham Rock Roffey Rowhook Rudgwick Rusper Shermanbury Shipley Slinfold Small Dole Southwater Storrington Sullington Thakeham The Haven Tisman's Common Upper Beeding Warminghurst Warnham Washington Watersfield West Chiltington West Chiltington Common West Grinstead Wiggonholt Wineham Wiston Woodmancote

Civil parishes	List of civil parishes in Horsham district

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