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In 1870-72, John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales described Shippon like this:
SHIPPON, a township-chapelry in Abingdon-St. Helen parish, Berks; 1 mile WNW of Abingdon r. station. Post town, Abingdon. Real property, £2,983. Pop., 211. Houses, 44. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Oxford. Value, not reported. Patron, the Bishop of Oxford.
Shippon is now part of VALE OF WHITE HORSE District. Click here for graphs and data of how VALE OF WHITE HORSE has changed over two centuries. For statistics about Shippon itself, go to Statistics.
How to reference this page:
GB Historical GIS / University of Portsmouth, History of Shippon, in Vale of White Horse and Berkshire | Map and description, A Vision of Britain through Time.
URL: https://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/place/23591
Date accessed: 09th April 2026
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