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[Description(s) from The National Gazetteer (1868)]
"SHIPTON-OLIFFE, a parish in the hundred of Bradley, county Gloucester, 6 miles N.W. of Northleach, its post town. The village, which is of small extent, is situated on the London road, and near the Cotswold hills. The parish of Shipton-Sollers was united to this by Act of Parliament in 1776. The surface is hilly, and the soil thin, resting on a substratum of limestone rock. The tithes were commuted in 1792 under an Enclosure Act for 453 acres of land. The living is a rectory with that of Shipton-Sollers annexed, in the diocese of Gloucester and Bristol, joint value £430. The church, dedicated to St. Oswald, is an ancient structure.""SHIPTON SOLLARS, a parish in the hundred of Bradley, county Gloucester, 6¼ miles N.W. of Northleach, its post town, and 7 from Cheltenham. The village, which is of small extent, is wholly agricultural. The living is a rectory annexed to that of Shipton-Oliffe, in the diocese of Gloucester and Bristol. The church is dedicated to St. Mary."
[Description(s) from The National Gazetteer of Great Britain and Ireland (1868)
Transcribed by Colin Hinson ©2003]
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- The transcription of the section for Shipton Oliffe (& Sollars) from the National Gazetteer (1868) provided by Colin Hinson.
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