Shipton, Gloucestershire
Historical Description
Shipton, a parish in Gloucestershire, with a station (Dowdeswell) on the Midland and South-Western Junction railway, 2 miles S of Andoversford station on the G.W.R., 6 WNW of Northleach, and 7 SE of Cheltenham. Post town, Andoversford (R.S.O.) The parish was formed by the union in 1872 of the parishes of Shipton Oliffe and Shipton Sollars, and comprises 2816 acres; population of the civil parish, 354; of the ecclesiastical, 340. Limestone is abundant. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Gloucester and Bristol; net value, £313 with residence. The church is Norman. The ancient church of Shipton Sollars was restored in 1884 after having been closed for years.
Church Records
The register dates from the year 1655.
The register dates from the year 1653.
The Gloucestershire Parish Registers are available online at Ancestry, in association with Gloucestershire Archives.
Churches
Church of England
St. Mary the Virgin, Shipton Sollars
The church of St. Mary the Virgin is a small building of stone, in the Perpendicular style, consisting of chancel and nave and a small western bell turret containing one bell: after having been closed for 20 years, it was restored in 1884 by Mrs. Pugh, at a cost of £150, and reconsecrated on Wednesday, June 10, 1884: special services are held here on Sunday evenings in the summer months: there are 120 sittings.
St. Oswald (parish church)
The church of St. Oswald is an edifice of stone, in the Early English and Perpendicular styles, consisting of chancel, nave, south transept and a western turret containing 2 bells: there is a piscina and portions of sedilia in the chancel: during 1903-4 the church underwent a complete restoration, under the superintendence of the late Mr. H. A. Prothero, architect, of Cheltenham, at a cost of over £1,000: there are sittings for 100 persons.
Methodist
Primitive Methodist Chapel
Civil Registration
For general information about Civil Registration (births, marriages and deaths) see the Civil Registration page.
Land and Property
The Return of Owners of Land in 1873 for Gloucestershire is available to browse.
Maps
Online maps of Shipton 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)
Newspapers and Periodicals
The British Newspaper Archive have fully searchable digitised copies of the following newspapers covering Gloucestershire online:
- Gloucester Citizen
- Gloucester Journal
- Gloucestershire Chronicle
- Gloucestershire Echo
- Cheltenham Chronicle
- Cheltenham Looker-On
Visitations Heraldic
The Visitation of the county of Gloucester, 1623 is available on the Heraldry page.