Shipton

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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