Survey of English Place-Names

Historical Forms

• Scepedane, Scipedana 1086 DB

• Sipeden 1197,1202,1203 FF

• Sipden 1198,1199 FF

• Sipedene 1209 Ass 1254–75 Val

• Sypeden 1212 Fees 1275 RH

• Sypedene 1257,1286 Ass

• Sypedon 1275 RH

• Sepeden 1198–9 Fees 1275 RH

• Shipedene 1128–9 Holme 1302 FA 1306 Ipm 1317(p),1334,1363 FF 1317,1349 Pat 1328 Banco

• Shipeden 1234 Bromh 1332 FF 1346 FA 1363 Pat 1378 AD

• Shypeden 1239 Holme

• Shypedene 1257,1269,1286 Ass 1302 FA 1318 FF

• Shippedene 1336 Pat

• Shippeden 1353 Cl 1359 Pat 1428 FA

• Schipeden 1250 Ass 1327 Ipm

• Schipden 1252 Cl 1380,1399 BM

• Schipedene 1257 Ass 1285 FF 1313 AD 1330 SR 1369 AD

• Schipdene 1272 Pat

• Schypedene 1324 Ipm

• Schipedenne 1324 Coxf

• Scheppeden 1333 AD

• Schippeden 1349 AD

• Scyppedene 1269 Ass

• Scepeden 1282 Ipm

• Scepedene 1286 Ass

• Shipden 1307 DeBanco 1369 Pat 1384 FF 1390,1392 Pat 1401–2 FA 1411,1472 FF

• Shipdene 1376 Pat 1422 Cl

• Shypden 1401–2 FA

• Shybden 1535 VE

• Shipden als Cromer 1535,1544 VE

• Shepeden 1333 Pat 1343 Cl 1344 Ipm 1378 AD

• Sheppeden 1285,1326 Ch

• Shepedene 1366 AD

Etymology

'Valley where sheep were kept', v. OE  scēap (WSax), scēp (Angl) 'sheep', and an i -mutated variant *scīep. The second element is OE  denu, ESax  dænu 'valley'. On the early ME development of e (after shortening) to i in closed syllables, v. Jordan § 34 Anm. 1.

Shipden was formerly a parish in which Cromer was included.Cromer has no separate entry in DB. In DB half a carucate of land in Shipden is entered as the property of St Benet of Holme for the supply of the monks. But Shipden was swallowed by the sea. This affected the old church, which is said to have been finally destroyed in the reign of Henry IV (1399–1413). The present church, dedicated to St Peter and St Paul and called Cromer church, was built to replace the old one (v. Blomefield VIII105 f., EAA 51: 54).