Shipton under Wychwood, Oxfordshire : Historical writing

Descriptive gazetteer entries

These other entries in our collection of descriptive gazetteers are also about Shipton under Wychwood. You may be able to find further references to Shipton under Wychwood in the descriptive gazetteers by doing a full-text search here.

Place Type of entry Source
Shipton under Wychwood parish, township, and village with railway station Bartholomew
SHIPTON-UNDER-WYCHWOOD a village Imperial

This additional information from our descriptive gazetteers is for locations within the parish or parishes associated with Shipton under Wychwood.

Place Type of entry Source
Langley township Bartholomew
LANGLEY a hamlet Imperial
Leafield township and village Bartholomew
LEAFIELD a chapelry Imperial
Lyneham township Bartholomew
LYNEHAM a hamlet Imperial
Milton township and village Bartholomew
MILTON a village and a township Imperial
PRATLEYS-LODGE a quondam extra-parochial tract Imperial
Ramsden township Bartholomew
RAMSDEN a township-chapelry Imperial

Travel writing

Sorry, but no mentions of this place can be found.

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Place Mentioned in Travel Writing Mentioned in Historical Gazetteer
Langley 0 3
Ascott under Wychwood 0 2
Leafield 0 2
Milton under Wychwood 0 2
Wychwood 2 2
Chilson 0 2
Lyneham 0 2
Swinbrook 0 2
Widford 0 2
Fulbrook 0 2
Bruern 3 2
Shorthampton 0 2
Asthall 0 2
Fifield 3 2
Sarsden 0 2
Crawley 0 2
Taynton 0 2
Idbury 0 2
Cornbury 1 2
Ramsden 0 2

Names from historical writing

The following appear as names for Shipton under Wychwood. Follow the links for what the author actually said:

Name Author Source
SHIPTON UNDER WYCHWOOD John Bartholomew Gazetteer of the British Isles (Edinburgh: Bartholomew, 1887).
John Marius Wilson Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (Edinburgh: A Fullarton & Co., 1870-72).

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  • Some names may derive from research by antiquarian writers such as William Camden and Thomas Pennant into the Roman, Saxon and medieval names of places. Their claims are not always supported by modern place-name researchers.
  • References by travel writers to the place using its "normal" name are not included. Descriptive gazetteer entries are included only if the name does not appear anywhere else.