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It is a village of Medieval origins, established around Shipton Court, the estate of the Lacey family. The parish church of St. Mary has a tower of circa 1200-1250 and a 15th century vaulted porch. It contains a 15th century stone pulpit, a large font of the same period and a Tudor wall monument . The mainly 15th Century Shaven Crown Hotel overlooks the wide village green and was once a guest house run by the monks of Bruern Abbey , and is claimed to have had a licence since 1384. About 2 miles south-east is the farmhouse of Langley, a largely mid-19th century building on the site of a royal hunting lodge built for Henry VII . Most of the Tudor monarchs stayed there when hunting in the Wychwood Forest. Shipton-under-Wychwood is on the course of the Oxfordshire Way footpath, and this can be used to walk north-westwards up the Evenlode Valley to Bruern Abbey and Bledington , or eastwards down the valley to Charlbury . The nearest station is Shipton Railway Station on the Cotswold Line . Shipton-under-Wychwood is a close neighbour to the other ancient Wychwood villages, Milton-under-Wychwood , Ascott-under-Wychwood , Fifield , Idbury and Leafield . EXTERNAL LINKS |
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