Shipton, North Yorkshire

Shipton (also known as Shipton-by-Beningbrough) is a village and civil parish in the former Hambleton District of North Yorkshire, England, about 5 miles (8 km) north-west of York.[3] Land in the area was held by Count Alan of Brittany around 1086 and by Richard de Camera.[4][5] In 1655, Ann Middleton, a Yorkshire philanthropist and wife of the Sheriff of York, left £1,000 to build a grammar school in the village.In the Second World War it was the base of a crashed aircraft recovery unit and then the site was used between 1953 and 1993 as a location for a government command and control bunker.[12] There is a church in the village dedicated to the Holy Evangelists which was built in 1849 by the Dawnay family and is a Grade II Listed building.