Shipston-on-Stour has some 83 listed buildings in the town and over a third of these are in Sheep Street, one of its oldest roads. These include number 42 which was originally a private house and which dates from the early 1800s.
Shipston-on-Stour in South Warwickshire is one of the prettiest little English market towns that I know. The name of the town, which is on the northern edge of the Cotswolds, derives from being known in ancient times as 'Sheep-wash-Town'. Shipston was for a long time an important sheep market town and after the demand for local wool began to diminish the town continued to flourish thanks to the opening in 1836 of a branch line from the horse-powered tramway that linked Stratford with Moreton-in-Marsh. The line became a modern railway in 1889. The town was also an important coaching town and many of the inns from the Georgian era survive.
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