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SHIPSTON-ON-STOUR, a small town and a parish in Worcestershire, a sub-district partly also in Warwickshire, and a district partly likewise in Gloucestershire, but all registrationally in Warwickshire. The town stands on the river Stour, 6 miles E of Chipping-Campden r. station; is a seat of petty sessions and a polling place; had once a large manufacture of shag; and has now a head post-office,‡ a banking office, two chief inns, a church built in 1855, three dissenting chapels, an endowed school with £42 a year, a workhouse, and charities £124. A weekly market is held on Saturday; a cattle-market, once a-month; and cattle fairs, on the 3d Tuesday of April, 22 June, and the Tuesday after 10 Oct. The parish was a township of Tredington till the time of George I., and comprises 1,198 acres. Real property, £7,228; of which £83 are in gasworks. Pop. in 1861, 1,760,-of whom 99 were in the workhouse. Houses, 376. The manor belongs to the Ecclesiastical Commissioners. A superior breed of sheep is reared. The living is a rectory, united with Tidmington, in the diocese of Worcester. Value, £700.* Patrons, Jesus College, Oxford, two turns, and the Dean and Chapter of Worcester, one turn.—The sub-district contains nine parishes. Acres, 17,021. Pop., 5,064. Houses, 1,114.—The district comprehends also the sub-districts of Halford, Moreton, and Campden; and comprises 78,899 acres. Poor rates in 1863, £9,676. Pop. in 1851, 20,651; in 1861, 19,852. Houses, 4,468. Marriages in 1863, 130; births, 645,-of which 56 were illegitimate; deaths, 314,-of which 119 were at ages under 5 years, and 15 at ages above 85. Marriages in the ten years 1851-60, 1,388; births, 6,353; deaths, 3,986. The places of worship, in 1851, were 34 of the Church of England, with 10,234 sittings; 2 of Independents, with 365 s.; 7 of Baptists, with 1,226 s.; 3 of Quakers, with 840 s.; 14 of Wesleyans with 1,625 s.; 4 of Primitive Methodists, with 466 s.; and 2 of Roman Catholics, with 172 s. The schools were 36 public day schools, with 2,422 scholars; 22 private day schools, with 349 s.; 34 Sunday schools, with 2,615 s. and 1 evening school for adults, with 8 s.
(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))
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| Feature Description: | "a small town and a parish" (ADL Feature Type: "cities") |
| Administrative units: | Shipston on Stour Ch/CP Shipston on Stour RegD/PLU Gloucestershire AncC Warwickshire AncC Worcestershire AncC |
| Place: | Shipston on Stour |
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