Shipton Lee, Buckinghamshire
Historical Description
Shipton Lee, a hamlet in Quainton parish, Bucks, 5½ miles SSW of Winslow, and 1 mile NW from the village of Quainton.
Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England & Wales, 1894-5
Administration
The following is a list of the administrative units in which this place was either wholly or partly included.
Ancient County | Buckinghamshire | |
Civil parish | Quainton | |
Hundred | Ashendon | |
Poor Law union | Aylesbury |
Any dates in this table should be used as a guide only.
Directories & Gazetteers
We have transcribed the entry for Shipton Lee from the following:
- Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Shipton-Lee)
Land and Property
The Return of Owners of Land in 1873 for Buckinghamshire is available to browse.
Maps
Online maps of Shipton Lee are available from a number of sites:
- Bing (Current Ordnance Survey maps).
- Google Streetview.
- National Library of Scotland. (Old maps)
- OpenStreetMap.
- old-maps.co.uk (Old Ordnance Survey maps to buy).
- Streetmap.co.uk (Current Ordnance Survey maps).
- A Vision of Britain through Time. (Old maps)