Shipton

Shipton

Shipton is the name of a number of English villages and hamlets (see List of generic forms in British place names):

*Shipton, Gloucestershire
*Shipton, North Yorkshire
*Shipton, Shropshire
*Shipton Bellinger, Hampshire
*Shipton Brook, Buckinghamshire
*Shipton Gorge, Dorset
*Shipton Lee, Buckinghamshire
*Shipton-on-Cherwell, Oxfordshire
*Shiptonthorpe, East Riding of Yorkshire
*Shipton-under-Wychwood, Oxfordshire
*Shipton Hall, an historic house in Shropshire

Shipton is also a person's name:

*Eric Shipton (1907–1977) — mountaineer
*Roger Shipton — Australian politician
*George Shipton (1885–1886) — General Secretary of the T.U.C.
*Mother Shipton (Ursula Southeil) — English seer and prophetess


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