Shippon is a village in
Oxfordshire, England, 1 mile west of
Abingdon. It is the largest village in the
civil parish
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of
St. Helen Without, in
Vale of White Horse
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District. It was in
Berkshire until it was transferred to Oxfordshire in 1974. The
Dalton Barracks are located in the village. The name was recorded in the
Domesday Book
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as ''Scipene'', meaning "cattle-shed".
[
] It was a
manor in the large parish of
St Helen's, Abingdon, and was held by
Abingdon Abbey
Abingdon Abbey ( '' " St Mary's Abbey " '' ) was a Benedictine monastery located in the centre of Abingdon-on-Thames beside the River Thames.
The abbey was founded c.675 AD in honour of The Virgin Mary.
The Domesday Book of 1086 informs ...
until the
Dissolution
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in 1538. It was then acquired by the
Duchy of Cornwall, which still owns it.
Shippon became a separate
ecclesiastical parish
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in 1865. The parish church of St Mary Magdalene was built in 1855 to a design of
Gilbert Scott.
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References
External links
Wootton and Dry Sandford website
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Villages in Oxfordshire