Survey of English Place-Names

Historical Forms

• Sepetone 1086 DB

• Sepetona Exon

• Sepetun 1265 Misc

• Spepton (sic, for Scepton) 1206 RC

• Scepton(e) 1268 Ass 1285 FA

• Schepton' 1288 Ass

• Shepton(e) 1288 1332 SR 1664 HTax

• Chepton 1271 Cl

• Sipton' 1214 Cur 1235–6 Fees 1245 Cl

• Siptune l13 Brid

• Shipton 1232 Cl 1250 Drew 1280 Ass 1431 FA

• Shypton 1247 FF 1269 Misc 1515 HarlCh

• Sypton(e) 13 France 14 LodersC

• Scyppeton 14 Hutch3

• Shipton juxta Bridiport 1313 FF

• S(c)hupton Maur(e)ward 1305 Cl, Ipm

• 'Shipton Maureward(e) by Brudport' 1397 Cl 1412 FA 1415 Fine

• Shipton Mauleward (sic) 1436 FF

• Schup(p)ton' 1316 Brid

• Supton' 1326 ib

• Shupton 1327 Cl

• Shepton Gorges Eliz ChancP 1619 Ilch

• Shepton Gorge 1558,1623 ib

• Shepton George (sic) 1623 ib

• Shipton Gorges 1594 ib

• Shipton George (sic) 1765 Tayl

• Shipton Gorge 1795 Boswell 1811 OS

• Mauregard in 1247 FF

• Galfrid de Maureward' (1268–9 Hutch3 2 283)

Etymology

'Sheep farm', from WSax  scēap, sci(e)p (gen.pl. -a ) and tūn, cf. Shapwick 2176. The affixes are manorial. Thomas Maureward was here in 1206 RC and Geoffrey Mauregard in 1247 FF, cf. also the following: 'Thomas Maureward …gave to that monastery [Abbotsbury] three virgates of land in Shipton , of the fee of Galfrid de Maureward ' (1268–9 Hutch3 2283). For the same family, cf. Kingston Maurward in Stinsford par. 1 369 and Winterborne Zelstone par. 2 68. Thomas de Gorges was here in 1285 FA, 1305 Cl, Hutch3, 1397 Cl, cf. also Ralph de Gorges de Chepton '1271 Cl and the same man mentioned in connection with Bradpole par. in 1244, 1250 Fees.