My thanks to those who replied with suggestions :-) Hugh Kearsey wrote: > The "Place Names of Oxfordshire" quotes a Bolles Shypeyn (or > Shipton) situated in Headington, but now lost. The ruins of the > building there was pulled down when Oxford was garrisoned in the > Civil War. The name was noted on a map dated 1605. It would seem that Hugh almost certainly has the right of it, and Bob's note adds a little more. Thanks again . . . Dave