Description
Shapwick, a parish, with a village, in Dorsetshire, on the river Stour, 3 miles from Bailey Gate station on the Somerset and Dorset railway, and 4 1/4 SSE of Blandford. It has a post office under Blandford; money order and telegraph office, Spettisbury. Acreage, 2683; population of the civil parish, 355; of the ecclesiastical, 402. A Carthusian Priory, a cell to Sheen in Surrey, was founded here in 1414. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Salisbury; net value, £270 with residence. The church is ancient but good, and was restored in 1879-80. There is a Primitive Methodist chapel.
Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England and Wales, 1894-5
