Shiplake
Coordinates: 51°30′11″N 0°53′56″W / 51.503°N 0.899°W
| Shiplake | |
 Shiplake
Shiplake shown within Oxfordshire |
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| Population | 1,878 (2001 census)[1] |
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| OS grid reference | SU7678 |
| Civil parish | Shiplake |
| District | South Oxfordshire |
| Shire county | Oxfordshire |
| Region | South East |
| Country | England |
| Sovereign state | United Kingdom |
| Post town | Henley-on-Thames |
| Postcode district | RG9 |
| Dialling code | 0118 |
| Police | Thames Valley |
| Fire | Oxfordshire |
| Ambulance | South Central |
| EU Parliament | South East England |
| UK Parliament | Henley |
| Website | Shiplake community website |
| List of places: UK • England • Oxfordshire | |
Shiplake is a village and civil parish about 3 miles (4.8 km) south of Henley-on-Thames in Oxfordshire, England on the River Thames.
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[edit] History
The Church of England parish church of St. Peter and St. Paul dates from at least the 13th century, but in 1869 the Gothic Revival architect G.E. Street rebuilt the chancel, north aisle, parts of the south aisle and replaced the tracery of all the windows.[2] The tower has a peal of eight bells.[3]
In 1773 the Thames Navigation Commission built Shiplake Lock on the Thames about 0.5 miles (800 m) downriver from the village. In 1857 the Great Western Railway opened a branch line between Twyford and Henley-on-Thames, crossing the Thames on Shiplake Railway Bridge, about 300 yards (270 m) downstream from Shiplake Lock. The GWR built Shiplake railway station at Lower Shiplake 1 mile (1.6 km) northwest of the village. Lower Shiplake has since grown into the largest settlement in the parish.
In 1889 the author Jerome K. Jerome featured the village in his book Three Men in a Boat.[4]
Shiplake Court was a country house built in Shiplake in 1905 overlooking the Thames. In 1959 it became Shiplake College, an independent boarding school.[5]
In 2003, the village of Binfield Heath and hamlet of Crowsley, which had been within Shiplake civil parish became part of the newly-created civil parish of Binfield Heath.[6]
[edit] Amenities
Shiplake has a village hall,[7] a Women's Institute[8] and an amateur dramatic society.[9]
Shiplake has a bowls club[10] and a lawn tennis club.[11]
[edit] Wargrave & Shiplake Regatta
The Wargrave & Shiplake Regatta was founded in 1867 and is held annually.[12] It is the second largest regatta on the Thames after the Henley Royal Regatta.[citation needed]
[edit] Notable residents
- Barriemore Barlow, former drummer of Jethro Tull lives in Shiplake.
- Vince Hill, singer, lives in Lower Shiplake.
- Henry Constantine Jennings, the antiquarian, was born in Shiplake and on 15 August 1731 he was baptised in the parish church.
- Simon Kernick, best selling author of crime thrillers lives in Shiplake
- Gary Moore used to live in Shiplake.
- George Orwell, author of Animal Farm and Nineteen Eighty-Four, lived in Shiplake.
- Ian Paice, drummer of rock band Deep Purple, lives in Shiplake.
- Brian Paterson, creator of Foxwood Tales and Zigby, lives in Shiplake.
- Urs Schwarzenbach, the financier, has one of his houses in Lower Shiplake.
- Alfred Tennyson and Emily Sellwood were married in the parish church.
[edit] See also
- Baron Phillimore of Shiplake, a local landowning family
[edit] References
- ^ "Area: Shiplake CP (Parish): Parish Headcounts". Neighbourhood Statistics. Office for National Statistics. http://neighbourhood.statistics.gov.uk/dissemination/LeadTableView.do?a=7&b=798679&c=Shiplake&d=16&e=15&g=481006&i=1001x1003x1004&o=1&m=0&r=1&s=1268444404617&enc=1&dsFamilyId=779. Retrieved 13 March 2010.
- ^ Sherwood, Jennifer; Pevsner, Nikolaus (1974). The Buildings of England: Oxfordshire. Harmondsworth: Penguin Books. pp. 755–756. ISBN 0 14 071045 0.
- ^ Oxford Diocesan Guild of Church Bell Ringers, Reading Branch
- ^ The Literature Network: Jerome, J.K., Three Men in a Boat, Chapter 14
- ^ Shiplake College
- ^ Binfield Heath website
- ^ Shiplake Memorial Hall
- ^ Oxfordshire Federation of Women's Institutes
- ^ Shiplake and Dunsden Dramatic Organisation (SHADDO)
- ^ Shiplake Village Bowling Club
- ^ Shiplake Tennis Club
- ^ Wargrave & Shiplake Regatta
[edit] External links
Media related to Shiplake at Wikimedia Commons
