Shipton George is a chapelry of Burton Bradstock Ancient Parish in Dorset.
Other places in the parish include: Broad Sturthill and St Luke.
Alternative names: Burton Bradstock St Martin, Shipton Gorge
Parish church:
Parish registers begin:
Parish registers: 1813
Bishop’s Transcripts: 1745
Nonconformists include: Independent/Congregational and Wesleyan Methodist.
SHIPTON-GEORGE, a parish, with a village, in Bridport district, Dorset; 2 miles E by S of Bridport r. station. Post town, Bridport. Acres, 1,528. Real property, with Burton-Bradstock, £6,436. Pop. of S.-G. alone, 413. Houses, 81.
The manor belongs to the Earl of Ilchester. S.-Beacon is a bill crowned with an irregular ancient camp, supposed to be Saxon.
The living is a p. curacy, annexed to Burton-Bradstock. The church, excepting the tower, was rebuilt in 1862.
Source: The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales [Wilson, John M]. A. Fullarton & Co. N. d. c. [1870-72].
England, Dorset, Shipton-George – Census ( 1 )
OS Grid Reference: SY4963291581 (all-numeric format: 349632 91582)
County: Dorset
Civil Registration District: Bridport
Probate Court: Court of the Archdeaconry of Dorset
Diocese: Salisbury
Rural Deanery: Bridport
Poor Law Union: Bridport
Hundred: Godderthorne
Province: Canterbury