In a message dated 01/11/2009 13:47:56 GMT Standard Time, jennyda2@gmail.com writes: I just could not find Shipley listed in the Towns and Parishes for Northumberland listing on the Genuki pages nor could I find it listed in the More Completel list of towns and parishes on the same Genuki page. It must be a really small place or something. Regards Jenny DeAngelis Spain. <<> Shipley village, Northumberland, is about 4 miles North West of Alnwick. The Shipley referred to, which as far as I know is the only Shipley in Northumberland, is little more than one farm. It may have been a township, though I doubt it, but certainly was never a parish. As a large farm, in the old days of labour-intensive agriculture there could well have been have been several families of farm labourers living there in pretty rough accomodation, as well as the farmer in the best house of all - the "farm house". Geoff Nicholson