Shipton is a village

Village

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 and civil parish

Civil parish

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 in the Hambleton

Hambleton

Hambleton is a local government district of North Yorkshire, England. The main town and administrative centre is Northallerton, and includes the market towns and major villages of Bedale, Thirsk, Great Ayton, Stokesley and Easingwold....

 district of North Yorkshire

North Yorkshire

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, England

England

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, about 5 miles (8 km) north-west of York

York

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History

Despite lying almost two miles apart, the alliance of Shipton and Beningbrough is steeped in history, and stems from the fact that Shipton was part of the Beningbrough Estate when it was owned by first the Bourchier family, and then the Dawnay family. It only gained its independence in 1917, when the Beningbrough Estate was broken up.

The village of Shipton was first mentioned in 1066, in the Domesday Book

Domesday Book

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. Shipton, Overton and Beningbrough were, by all accounts, very popular settlements in the 16th and 17th centuries, because they were part of the Royal Forest of Galtres

Forest of Galtres

The royal Forest of Galtres was established by the Norman kings of England in North Yorkshire, to the north of the county town of York, extending right to its very walls.. The main settlement within the royal forest was the market village of Easingwold, but in 1316 the forest comprised 60 villages...

 , where English monarchs loved to hunt. In 1655, Ann Middleton, one of Yorkshire's greatest philanthropists, left £1,000 to build a grammar school in the village . She also left 20 shillings a year to the poor of Shipton. The grammar school stood until 1850, when the Lord of the Manor, the Hon. Payan Dawnay, knocked it down, and built a new one.
The village public house was once known as The Bay Horse, and was originally built in 1730. It became The Dawnay Arms in Payan’s lifetime and boasts the family coat of arms over the door. Despite the A19

A19 road

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dominating the village, it remains full of character,