Shipton-under-Wychwood
| Shipton-under-Wychwood | |
 St. Mary the Virgin parish church |
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  Shipton-under-Wychwood Shipton-under-Wychwood shown within Oxfordshire | |
| Population | 1,280 (2001 census)[1] |
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| OS grid reference | SP2717 |
| Civil parish | Shipton-under-Wychwood |
| District | West Oxfordshire |
| Shire county | Oxfordshire |
| Region | South East |
| Country | England |
| Sovereign state | United Kingdom |
| Postcode district | OX7 |
| Dialling code | 01993 |
| Police | Thames Valley |
| Fire | Oxfordshire |
| Ambulance | South Central |
| EU Parliament | South East England |
| UK Parliament | Witney |
| Website | Shipton-u-Wychwood |
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Shipton under Wychwood is a village and civil parish in the Evenlode valley about 4 miles (6.4 km) north of Burford, Oxfordshire. The village is one of several named after the ancient forest of Wychwood. The others are Milton-under-Wychwood immediately to the west of the village and Ascott-under-Wychwood about 1.5 miles (2.4 km) to the east.
Manors
Langley
About 2 miles (3 km) southeast of the village is the farmhouse of Langley, a largely mid-19th-century building. It is on the site of a royal hunting lodge that was built for Henry VII. Most of the Tudor monarchs stayed there when hunting in Wychwood Forest.[2]
The de Langley family were hereditary keepers of Wychwood Forest, Oxon., which office carried with it the tenancy of the manor of Langley in Shipton-under-Wychwood parish.[3] Their heir was Simon Verney (d. 1368) whose brother was William Verney of Byfield, Northants., father of Alice Verney, 1st. wife of John Danvers (d. 1449) of Calthorpe, MP for Oxfordshire 1420, 1421, 1423 and 1435.[4] The de Langley family held the manor of Shipton, Oxfordshire, and Richard Lee in his Gleanings of Oxfordshire of 1574 states that these arms of "Gules, 2 bars or in chief 2 buck's heads cabossed of the 2nd" were then displayed in a stained glass window in St. Mary's parish church at Shipton with a tomb under it. The buck's heads seem to be a reference to the de Langley office of forester of Wychwood.
Lacey
Shipton Court, the estate of the Lacey family, was built in about 1603.[5]
Parish church
The Church of England parish church of St. Mary has a tower built in about 1200–1250,[6] a 15th-century stone pulpit and font[7] and a Tudor wall monument.[7]
The architect Richard Pace designed Saint Mary's Rectory, which was built in 1818.[8]
Economic and social history
William Langland, the conjectured author of Piers Plowman, is known to have been a tenant in Shipton-under-Wychwood where he died.[9]
The village has three historic public houses: the Shaven Crown Hotel, The Red Horse and the Lamb Inn. The Shaven Crown Hotel[10] overlooking the village green was once a guest house run by the monks of Bruern Abbey. It is claimed to have had a licence since 1384 but the present building is mainly 15th century.[2] The Lamb Inn is 16th century[11] and is controlled by Greene King Brewery.[12]
Amenities
Wychwood Church of England Primary School is in Shipton.
Shipton railway station is on the Cotswold Line.
Shipton-under-Wychwood Cricket Club[13] first XI plays in The club's second XI plays in The Oxford Times Cherwell League[14] Division One and won the National Village Knockout in 2002 and 2003. The club's second XI plays in The Oxford Times Cherwell Cricket League Division Three.
Shipton-under-Wychwood is on the Oxfordshire Way footpath, which can be used to walk north-westwards up the Evenlode Valley to Bruern Abbey and Bledington, or eastwards down the valley to Charlbury.
References
- ↑ "Area selected: West Oxfordshire (Non-Metropolitan District)". Neighbourhood Statistics: Full Dataset View. Office for National Statistics. Retrieved 23 March 2010.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Sherwood & Pevsner 1974, p. 760.
- ↑ Macnamara 1895, p. 198.
- ↑ Roskell, Clarke & Rawcliffe 1992, pp. 747–748.
- ↑ Sherwood & Pevsner 1974, pp. 759–760.
- ↑ Sherwood & Pevsner 1974, p. 758.
- ↑ 7.0 7.1 Sherwood & Pevsner 1974, p. 759.
- ↑ Colvin 1997, p. 764.
- ↑ Godden 1990, p. not cited.
- ↑ Shaven Crown Hotel
- ↑ English Country Inns webpage for The Lamb Inn
- ↑ Greene King website for the Lamb Inn
- ↑ Shipton-under-Wychwood Cricket Club
- ↑ Cherwell Cricket League
Sources
- Colvin, H.M. (1997). A Biographical Dictionary of British Architects, 1600-1840. New Haven: Yale University Press. p. 764. ISBN 0-300-07207-4.
- Godden, Malcolm (1990). The Making of Piers Plowman. London: Longman. ISBN 0-582-01685-1.
- Macnamara, Francis Nottidge (1895). Memorials of the Danvers Family. London: Hardy and Page. p. 198.
- Roskell, J.S.; Clarke, Linda; Rawcliffe, Carole, eds. (1992). "Danvers, John". House of Commons 1386–1421. History of Parliament 2. Stroud: Alan Sutton Publishing. pp. 747–748.
- Sherwood, Jennifer; Pevsner, Nikolaus (1974). Oxfordshire. The Buildings of England. Harmondsworth: Penguin Books. pp. 758–760. ISBN 0-14-071045-0.
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