Shipton Lee

Shipton Lee
Lee House and Middle Farm, Shipton Lee, 2007
Shipton Lee
Location within Buckinghamshire
Civil parish
Unitary authority
Ceremonial county
Region
CountryEngland
Sovereign stateUnited Kingdom

Shipton Lee is a hamlet in the civil parish of Quainton, in Buckinghamshire, England.

Shipton Lee was historically part of the ancient parish of Quainton. Parish functions under the poor laws were administered separately for the hamlet of Shipton Lee and the rest of the parish.[1] As such, Shipton Lee became a separate civil parish from Quainton in 1866 when the legal definition of 'parish' was changed to be the areas used for administering the poor laws.[2] In 1886 the civil parish was abolished and its area absorbed into the civil parish of Quainton, in effect reuniting the ancient parish.[3][4] At the 1881 census (the last before the abolition of the civil parish), Shipton Lee had a population of 61.[5]

References

  1. ^ Accounts and Papers of the House of Commons. 1868. p. 16. Retrieved 5 October 2025.
  2. ^ Youngs, Frederic (1979). Guide to the Local Administrative Units of England: Volume I, Southern England. London: Royal Historical Society. pp. xvi. ISBN 0901050679.
  3. ^ "Relationships and Changes Shipton Lee Hmlt/CP through time". A Vision of Britain through Time. Retrieved 8 March 2020.
  4. ^ "Aylesbury Registration District". UKBMD. Retrieved 9 August 2023.
  5. ^ "Population Statistics Shipton Lee Hmlt/CP through time". Vision of Britain. Retrieved 8 March 2020.