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Shipton-under-Wychwood

 
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Coordinates: 51°52′N 1°36′W / 51.86°N 1.60°W / 51.86; -1.60

Shipton-under-Wychwood
Shipton-under-Wychwood is located in Oxfordshire
Shipton-under-Wychwood

 Shipton-under-Wychwood shown within Oxfordshire
OS grid reference SP2717
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
List of places: UK • England • Oxfordshire

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.

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History

The Church of England parish church of St. Mary has a tower of circa 1200-1250,[1] a 15th century stone pulpit and font[2] and a Tudor wall monument.[2]

The village has two historic public houses: the Shaven Crown Hotel and the Lamb Inn.

The Shaven Crown Hotel[3] 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[by whom?] but the present building is mainly 15th century.[4]

The Lamb Inn is 16th century.[5] It is controlled by Greene King Brewery.[6]

William Langland, the conjectured author of Piers Plowman, is known to have been a tenant in Shipton-under-Wychwood where he died.[7]

Shipton Court, the estate of the Lacey family, was built in about 1603.[8]

The architect Richard Pace built Saint Mary's Rectory in 1818.[9]

About 2 miles (3.2 km) southeast of the village is the farmhouse of Langley, a largely mid-19th century building on the site of a royal hunting lodge built for Henry VII. Most of the Tudor monarchs stayed there when hunting in the Wychwood Forest.[4]

Amenities

Wychwood Church of England Primary School is in the village.

Shipton railway station is on the Cotswold Line.

Shipton-under-Wychwood Cricket Club[10] first XI plays in The Oxford Times Cherwell League[11] Division One and won the National Village Knockout in 2002 and 2003. The club's second XI plays in The Oxford Times Cherwell League Division Five.

Shipton-under-Wychwood is on the Oxfordshire Way footpath, and this can be used to walk north-westwards up the Evenlode Valley to Bruern Abbey and Bledington, or eastwards down the valley to Charlbury.

Sources

References

  1. ^ Sherwood & Pevsner, 1974, page 758
  2. ^ a b Sherwood & Pevsner, 1974, page 759
  3. ^ Shaven Crown Hotel
  4. ^ a b Sherwood & Pevsner, 1974, page 760
  5. ^ English Country Inns webpage for The Lamb Inn
  6. ^ Greene King website for the Lamb Inn
  7. ^ Godden, 1990, page not cited
  8. ^ Sherwood & Pevsner, 1974, pages 759-760
  9. ^ Colvin, 1997, page 764
  10. ^ Shipton-under-Wychwood Cricket Club
  11. ^ Cherwell Cricket League

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