OS grid reference SU4898 Post town Oxford Local time Saturday 7:34 PM | Sovereign state United Kingdom Postcode district OX13 Dialling code 01235 | |
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Weather 12°C, Wind W at 10 km/h, 69% Humidity | ||
Shippon is a village in Oxfordshire, England, 1 mile west of Abingdon. It is the largest village in the civil parish of St Helen Without, in Vale of White Horse District. It was in Berkshire until transferred to Oxfordshire in 1974.
Map of Shippon, Abingdon, UK
Dalton Barracks are located in the village.
The name was recorded in the Domesday Book as Scipene, meaning "cattle-shed". It was a manor in the large parish of St Helen's, Abingdon, and was held by Abingdon Abbey until the Dissolution in 1538. It was then acquired by the Duchy of Cornwall, which still owns it. Shippon became a separate ecclesiastical parish in 1865. The parish church of St Mary Magdalene was built in 1855 to a design of Gilbert Scott.
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