Shipton Gorge
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Shipton Gorge is a village and civil parish in southwest Dorset, England, Template:Convert east of Bridport. Dorset County Council's 2013 mid-year estimate of the population of Shipton Gorge parish is 350.<ref name=dcc/> In the 2011 national census, results have been published for the parish of Shipton Gorge combined with the small neighbouring parish of Chilcombe to the east; the population of these areas was 381.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>
In 1086 in the Domesday Book Shipton Gorge was recorded as Sepetone.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> The village is named after the de Gorges family who owned the land hundreds of years ago. The parish church of St Martin—which used to be a chapel of Burton Bradstock—was rebuilt in 1862, except for its west tower which dates from around 1400.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>
The terrain surrounding the village is hilly. Northeast of the village is Shipton Hill, which offers good views of the surrounding countryside from its Template:Convert summit. On the hill is evidence of a prehistoric settlement.<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
Squadron Leader Ted Flavell, who in 1956 had carried out the first British air drop of an atomic bomb during Operation Buffalo, lived in Shipton Gorge during his retirement.