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Shipton (also known as Shipton-by-Beningbrough) is a village and civil parish in the Hambleton district of North Yorkshire, England, about north-west of York.
In 1655, Ann Middleton, a Yorkshire philanthropist and wife of the Sheriff of York, left £1,000 to build a grammar school in the village. She also left 20 shillings a year to the poor of Shipton. The grammar school stood until 1850, when the Lord of the Manor, the Hon. Payan Dawnay, knocked it down, and built a new one.
The village public house was once known as ''The Bay Horse'', and was originally built in 1730. It became ''The Dawnay Arms'' in Payan's lifetime and shows the family coat of arms over the door. It is a Grade II Listed building.
Land to the north of the village was used as an airfield ( RAF Shipton) during the First World War. In the Second World War it was the base of a crashed aircraft recovery unit and then the site was used between 1953 and 1993 as a location for a government command and control bunker.
History
The village was in existence at the time of theNorman invasion
The Norman Conquest (or the Conquest) was the 11th-century invasion and occupation of England by an army made up of thousands of Normans, Norman, Duchy of Brittany, Breton, County of Flanders, Flemish, and Kingdom of France, French troops, ...
, as shown in the OpenDomesday on-line. In the 11th century it was known as ''Hipton'' from the Old English words ''heope'' and ''-tun'', meaning ''Rose-hip settlement''. Land in the area was held by Count Alan of Brittany around 1086 and by ''Richard de Camera''. Various landowners over the next 150 years gave land to nearby St Mary's Abbey. After the dissolution, John Shipton had leased the manor which John Redman eventually bought from the Crown outright in 1557. By 1625 the manor had passed to ''William Scudamore'' of Overton, who eventually sold it the ''Bouchier'' family of nearby Beningbrough Hall and thence through succession to the ''Dawnay'' family.
In 1655, Ann Middleton, a Yorkshire philanthropist and wife of the Sheriff of York, left £1,000 to build a grammar school in the village. She also left 20 shillings a year to the poor of Shipton. The grammar school stood until 1850, when the Lord of the Manor, the Hon. Payan Dawnay, knocked it down, and built a new one.
The village public house was once known as ''The Bay Horse'', and was originally built in 1730. It became ''The Dawnay Arms'' in Payan's lifetime and shows the family coat of arms over the door. It is a Grade II Listed building.
Land to the north of the village was used as an airfield ( RAF Shipton) during the First World War. In the Second World War it was the base of a crashed aircraft recovery unit and then the site was used between 1953 and 1993 as a location for a government command and control bunker.
Governance
The village lies within the Thirsk and Malton Parliamentary constituency. It also lies within the Shipton ward of Hambleton District Council and the Stillington electoral division of North Yorkshire County Council. This ward had a population at the 2011 Census of 2,672.Police
Shipton falls within the North Yorkshire Police area.Geography
The village lies on what was once the Great North Road, but is now the A19. The nearest settlements are Wigginton to the east; Skelton to the south east and Beningbrough to the west. The 1881 UK Census recorded the population as 430. The 2001 UK Census recorded the population as 691, of which 525 were over the age of sixteen years and 311 of those were in employment. There were 272 dwellings, of which 126 were detached.Religion
There is a church in the village dedicated to the ''Holy Evangelists'' which was built in 1849 by the Dawnay family and is a Grade II Listed building. There used to be a Wesleyan chapel in the village.References
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{{authority control Villages in North Yorkshire Civil parishes in North Yorkshire