Shiplake, Oxfordshire

Historical Description

Shiplake, a village and a parish in Oxfordshire. The village stands on an eminence adjacent to the Thames, 1 mile WSW of a station of its own name on the Henley branch of the G.W.R., 3½ miles S by E of Henley, and 4½ NE from Reading, commands a fine view, and has a postal wall-box under Henley-on-Thames; money order and telegraph office, Wargrave. The parish comprises 2740 acres; population of civil parish, 756; of ecclesiastical, 686. There is a parish council consisting of seven members and a chairman. The Loddon enters the Thames near Shiplake lock, and the village is a favourite resort of anglers, boating men, and cyclists. Crowsley Park, a fine ancient mansion of red brick surrounded by a deer park of 250 acres, is the seat of the Baskerville family, who own the manor and most of the land. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Oxford; net value, £266 with residence. Patrons, the Dean and Canons of Windsor. The church, which is a building of flint, stone, and chalk, is in mixed styles from the Transition Norman period downwards. It has a Decorated font and some fine ancient stained glass, originally from the Abbey of St. Bertin at St. Omer. Granger, the author of the " Biographical History of England," was vicar.

Administration

The following is a list of the administrative units in which this place was either wholly or partly included.

Any dates in this table should be used as a guide only.

Church Records

Ancestry.co.uk, in association with Oxfordshire Family History Society and Oxfordshire History Centre, have images of the Parish Registers for Oxfordshire online.

Civil Registration

For general information about Civil Registration (births, marriages and deaths) see the Civil Registration page.

Directories & Gazetteers

We have transcribed the entry for Shiplake from the following:

• Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Shiplake (St. Peter and St. Paul))

Land and Property

A full transcript of the Return of Owners of Land in 1873 for Oxfordshire is available online

Maps

Online maps of Shiplake 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 Oxfordshire newspapers online:

• Oxford Journal
• Banbury Advertiser
• Banbury Guardian
• Oxford University and City Herald
• Oxford Chronicle and Reading Gazette
• Faringdon Advertiser and Vale of the White Horse Gazette
• Oxford Times
• Banbury Beacon
• Ossett Observer

Visitations Heraldic

The Visitations of Oxfordshire, 1566, 1574 &1634 are available on the Heraldry page.