Shipton Gorge
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Shipton Gorge is a village and civil parish in southwest Dorset, England, Script error: No such module "convert". east of Bridport. Dorset County Council's 2013 mid-year estimate of the population of Shipton Gorge parish is 350.[1] In the 2011 national census, results have been published for the parish of Shipton Gorge combined with the small neighbouring parish of Chilcombe to the east; the population of these areas was 381.[2]
In 1086 in the Domesday Book Shipton Gorge was recorded as Sepetone.[3] The village is named after the de Gorges family who owned the land hundreds of years ago. The parish church of St Martin—which used to be a chapel of Burton Bradstock—was rebuilt in 1862, except for its west tower which dates from around 1400.[4]
The terrain surrounding the village is hilly. Northeast of the village is Shipton Hill, which offers good views of the surrounding countryside from its Script error: No such module "convert". summit. On the hill is evidence of a prehistoric settlement.[5]
Squadron Leader Ted Flavell, who in 1956 had carried out the first British air drop of an atomic bomb during Operation Buffalo, lived in Shipton Gorge during his retirement.
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