{{Short description|Village in Oxfordshire, England}} {{Use dmy dates|date=August 2015}} {{Use British English|date=August 2015}} {{infobox UK place |official_name= Shipton-under-Wychwood |static_image_name= St. Mary the Virgin, Shipton under Wychwood - geograph.org.uk - 119885.jpg |static_image_caption= St. Mary the Virgin parish church |coordinates = {{coord|51.860|-1.596|display=inline,title}} |os_grid_reference= SP2717 |population= 1244 |population_ref= (2011 Census) |civil_parish= Shipton-under-Wychwood |shire_district= West Oxfordshire |shire_county= Oxfordshire |region= South East England |country= England |post_town= Chipping Norton |postcode_district= OX7 |postcode_area= OX |dial_code= 01993 |constituency_westminster= Witney |website= [http://www.shiptonunderwychwood.org/ Shipton-u-Wychwood] }}
'''Shipton-under-Wychwood''' is a village and civil parish in the Evenlode valley about {{convert|4|mi}} north of Burford, in the West Oxfordshire district, in the county of Oxfordshire, England. The village is one of three named after the ancient forest of Wychwood. The others are Milton-under-Wychwood immediately to the west of the village and Ascott-under-Wychwood about {{convert|1.5|mi}} to the east. The 2011 Census recorded Shipton-under-Wychwood's parish population as 1,244.<ref>{{cite web |url= http://www.neighbourhood.statistics.gov.uk/dissemination/LeadKeyFigures.do?a=7&b=11128453&c=Shipton-under-Wychwood&d=16&e=62&g=6459880&i=1001x1003x1032x1004&m=0&r=1&s=1418411711376&enc=1 |title=Area: Shipton-under-Wychwood (Parish): Key Figures for 2011 Census: Key Statistics |work=Neighbourhood Statistics |publisher=Office for National Statistics |access-date=12 December 2014}}</ref>
==Manors== ===Langley=== About {{convert|2|mi|0}} southeast of the village is the farmhouse of Langley, a largely mid-19th-century building. It is on the site of a royal hunting lodge that was built for Henry VII. Most of the Tudor monarchs stayed there when hunting in Wychwood Forest.{{sfn|Sherwood|Pevsner|1974|p=760}} King James I stayed at Langley in August 1605, and a French servant who died was buried at Shipton.<ref>John Nichols, ''The Progresses, Processions, and Magnificent Festivities, of King James the First'', vol. 1 (London, 1828), p. 529.</ref> The de Langley family were hereditary keepers of Wychwood Forest, Oxon. The office carried with it the tenancy of the manor of Langley in Shipton-under-Wychwood parish.{{sfn|Macnamara|1895|p=198}} The heir was Simon Verney (d. 1368) whose brother was William Verney of Byfield, Northants., father of Alice Verney, 1st. wife of John Danvers (d. 1449) of Calthorpe, MP for Oxfordshire 1420, 1421, 1423 and 1435.{{sfn|Roskell|Clarke|Rawcliffe|1992|pp=747–748}} The de Langley family held the manor of Shipton, Oxfordshire, and Richard Lee in his ''Gleanings of Oxfordshire'' of 1574 states that these arms of ''"Gules, 2 bars or in chief 2 buck's heads cabossed of the 2nd"'' were then displayed in a stained glass window in St. Mary's parish church at Shipton with a tomb under it. The buck's heads seem to be a reference to the de Langley office of forester of Wychwood. thumb|Arms of de Langley: ''Gules, two bars or in chief two buck's heads cabossed of the second''
===Lacey=== Shipton Court, the estate of the Lacey family, was built in about 1603{{sfn|Sherwood|Pevsner|1974|pp=759–760}} but sold to Sir Compton Reade in 1663. It passed down in the Reade family until 1868 when, on the death of Sir John Reade, it was left to his footman Joseph Wakefield, on condition that he took the name Reade.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://ogt.org.uk/walled-kitchen-gardens/west-oxfordshire/wkg-shipton-court|title= Walled kitchen gardens in West Oxfordshire - Shipton Court |publisher=Oxfordshire Gardens Trust|access-date= 21 August 2018}}</ref>
==Parish church== The Church of England parish church of St. Mary has a tower built in about 1200–1250,{{sfn|Sherwood|Pevsner|1974|p=758}} a 15th-century stone pulpit and font{{sfn|Sherwood|Pevsner|1974|p=759}} and a Tudor wall monument.{{sfn|Sherwood|Pevsner|1974|p=759}} The architect Richard Pace designed Saint Mary's Rectory, which was built in 1818.{{sfn|Colvin|1997|p=764}}
==Sports teams== '''Shipton-under-Wychwood Cricket Club'''
Founded in 1920,<ref name="auto">{{Cite web|title=Club History {{!}} Shipton-Under-Wychwood Cricket Club {{!}} Chipping Norton|url=https://www.shiptoncc.co.uk/club-history|access-date=2020-12-16|website=www.shiptoncc.co.uk|language=en}}</ref> Shipton-under-Wychwood Cricket Club<ref>[http://www.shiptoncc.co.uk/ Shipton-under-Wychwood Cricket Club]</ref> First XI plays in The Home Counties Premier League,<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://hcpcl.com/|title=Stay Mentally and Socially Active -|access-date=2 June 2025}}</ref> and the Second, Third and Fourth XI play in ''The Oxford Times'' Cherwell League.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.cherwellcricketleague.com/|title=Cherwell Cricket League - Home Page|website=www.cherwellcricketleague.com|access-date=2 June 2025}}</ref> The men's first 11 won The National Village Knockout, with the final played at Lord's, in 2002 and 2003.<ref name="auto"/> Oscar-winning film director Sam Mendes played in the team that lost in the final of the Knockout in 1997 <ref>{{Cite web|last=Lynch|first=Steven|date=2000-04-18|title=Village cricketer wins Oscar|url=http://www.theguardian.com/film/2000/apr/18/oscars2000.awardsandprizes|access-date=2020-12-16|website=The Guardian|language=en}}</ref> The First XI won the National Village Knockout at Lords in 2002 and 2003, and was runner-up in 1997 and 2010. It was also Oxfordshire Team of the Year in 2011 after its trip to Lords, winning the Cherwell League title, and winning both the premier Oxfordshire Twenty 20 Competitions, all within 12 months.<ref>{{cite news |url= http://www.oxfordmail.co.uk/sport/othersport/9419929.AWARDS__Shipton_are_team_of_the_year/?ref=rss |title=AWARDS: Shipton are team of the year |date=14 December 2011 |newspaper=Oxford Mail |publisher=Newsquest |access-date=13 February 2014}}</ref> The club launched its first Ladies team in 2014, after several successful seasons running girls' sides.{{citation needed|date=December 2014}} The Women's first 11 won the Oxfordshire Ladies Championship in 2015.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Oxfordshire Cricket Board - News - Shipton-Under-Wychwood Ladies Triumph in Final!|url=http://www.oxfordshire.cricket/news/shipton-under-wychwood-ladies-triumph-in-final-11690/|access-date=2020-12-16|website=www.oxfordshire.cricket|language=en}}</ref>
==Economic and social history== William Langland, the conjectured author of ''Piers Plowman'', is known to have been a tenant in Shipton-under-Wychwood where he died.{{sfn|Godden|1990|p=not cited}} The village has three historic public houses: the Shaven Crown Hotel, The Wychwood and the Lamb Inn. The Shaven Crown Hotel<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://thecrownshipton.com/|title=The Crown|website=The Crown|access-date=2 June 2025}}</ref> overlooking the village green was once a guest house run by the monks of Bruern Abbey. The present building is mainly 15th century.{{sfn|Sherwood|Pevsner|1974|p=760}} The former leader of the British Union of Fascists, Sir Oswald Mosley stayed at the hotel after his release from internment in 1943. The Lamb Inn is 16th century<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.english-inns.co.uk/LambInn-ShiptonUnderWychwood/|title=The Lamb Inn | English Inns|website=www.english-inns.co.uk|access-date=2 June 2025}}</ref> and is controlled by Greene King Brewery.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.greenekinginns.co.uk/oxford/inn_02/index.htm|title=Greene King website for the Lamb Inn|access-date=2 June 2025}}</ref>
==Amenities== Shipton railway station is on the Cotswold Line. Shipton-under-Wychwood is on the Oxfordshire Way footpath, which can be used to walk north-westwards up the Evenlode Valley to Bruern Abbey and Bledington, or eastwards down the valley to Charlbury.
==References== {{reflist}}
==Sources== *{{cite book |last=Colvin |first=H.M. |author-link=Howard Colvin |title=A Biographical Dictionary of British Architects, 1600-1840 |year=1997 |publisher=Yale University Press |location=New Haven |isbn=0-300-07207-4 |page=764 }} *{{cite book |last=Godden |first=Malcolm |title=The Making of Piers Plowman |year=1990 |publisher=Longman |location=London |isbn=0-582-01685-1 }} *{{cite book |last=Macnamara |first=Francis Nottidge |year=1895 |title=Memorials of the Danvers Family |location=London |publisher=Hardy and Page |page=[https://archive.org/details/memorialsofdanve00macn/page/198 198] |url= https://archive.org/details/memorialsofdanve00macn }} *{{cite book |editor1-last=Roskell |editor1-first=J.S. |editor2-last=Clarke |editor2-first=Linda |editor3-last=Rawcliffe |editor3-first=Carole |year=1992 |series=History of Parliament |title=House of Commons 1386–1421 |volume=2 |pages=747–748 |location=Stroud |publisher=Alan Sutton Publishing |chapter=Danvers, John }} *{{cite book |last1=Sherwood |first1=Jennifer |last2=Pevsner |first2=Nikolaus |author-link2=Nikolaus Pevsner |series=The Buildings of England |title=Oxfordshire |year=1974 |publisher=Penguin Books |location=Harmondsworth |isbn=0-14-071045-0 |pages=758–760 }}
==External links== {{Commons category-inline}} *[http://www.thewychwood.co.uk The Wychwood Magazine Online]
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