Shippon is a village in
Oxfordshire
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, England, 1 mile west of
Abingdon. It is the largest village in the
civil parish
In England, a civil parish is a type of administrative parish used for local government. It is a territorial designation which is the lowest tier of local government. Civil parishes can trace their origin to the ancient system of parishes, w ...
of
St. Helen Without, in
Vale of White Horse
The Vale of White Horse is a Non-metropolitan district, local government district of Oxfordshire in England. It Historic counties of England, was historically part of Berkshire. The area is commonly referred to as the 'Vale of ''the'' White Hors ...
District. It was in
Berkshire
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until it was transferred to Oxfordshire in 1974. The
Dalton Barracks
Dalton Barracks is a military installation near Abingdon in Oxfordshire, England and home to 4 Regiment Royal Logistic Corps. The site is set to close in 2031.
History
The barracks were established, on the site of the former RAF Abingdon airbas ...
are located in the village. The name was recorded in the
Domesday Book
Domesday Book ( ; the Middle English spelling of "Doomsday Book") is a manuscript record of the Great Survey of much of England and parts of Wales completed in 1086 at the behest of William the Conqueror. The manuscript was originally known by ...
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 (formally Abbey of Saint Mary) was a Order of St. Benedict, Benedictine monastery in Abingdon-on-Thames in the modern county of Oxfordshire in the United Kingdom. Situated near to the River Thames, it was founded in 675 AD and was ...
until the
Dissolution in 1538. It was then acquired by the
Duchy of Cornwall
A duchy, also called a dukedom, is a country, territory, fief, or domain ruled by a duke or duchess, a ruler hierarchically second to the king or queen in Western European tradition.
There once existed an important difference between "sovereign ...
, which still owns it.
Shippon became a separate
ecclesiastical parish
A parish is a territorial entity in many Christianity, Christian denominations, constituting a division within a diocese. A parish is under the pastoral care and clerical jurisdiction of a priest#Christianity, priest, often termed a parish pries ...
in 1865. The parish church of St Mary Magdalene was built in 1855 to a design of
Gilbert Scott Gilbert Scott commonly refers to Sir George Gilbert Scott (1811–1878), a British architect principally known for his church buildings.
Gilbert Scott may also refer to several other British architects:
* George Gilbert Scott, Jr. (1839–1897), s ...
.
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Villages in Oxfordshire