Shipton Bellinger, Hampshire
Historical Description
Shipton Bellinger, a parish, with a village, in Hants, 3 miles NW of Grateley station on the L. & S.W.R., and 9½ W of Andover. It has a post office under Andover; money order office, Ludgershall; telegraph office, Cholderton. Acreage, 2561; population, 236. The manor belongs to the Kelk family. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Winchester; net value, £75 with residence. The church is a building of tiint in the Early English style of architecture, and has been restored.
Administration
The following is a list of the administrative units in which this place was either wholly or partly included.
| Ancient County | Hampshire | |
| Ecclesiastical parish | Shipton-Bellinger St. Mary | |
| Hundred | Thorngate | |
| Poor Law union | Andover |
Any dates in this table should be used as a guide only.
Directories & Gazetteers
We have transcribed the entry for Shipton Bellinger from the following:
- Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Shipton-Bellinger (St. Mary))
Land and Property
The Return of Owners of Land in 1873 for Hampshire (County Southampton) is available to browse.
Maps
Online maps of Shipton Bellinger 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 Hampshire newspapers online:
- Portsmouth Evening News
- Hampshire Telegraph
- Hampshire Advertiser
- Hampshire Chronicle
- Aldershot Military Gazette
Visitations Heraldic
The Visitations of Hampshire, 1530, 1575, & 1622-34 is available to view on the Heraldry page.