The dwellings formerly situated near the Shipley Smithy (NU 15221820) (2) formed Shipley proper, which seems to have been a place of considerable importance with traditions of a weekly market. The foundations of extensive buildings may still be traced, and a few slabs 'once connected with the sepulture of the dead' are lying about. (1)(2)

Centred NU 153 182. A small L-shaped area consisting of rectangular and sub-rectangular enclosures with smaller rectangular enclosures obviously remains of steadings within. The banks have an average width of 1m and an average ht of 0.4m; the smaller enclosures have central hollows within the banks, some of which contain dressed stones. A stream runs east-west through the northern half of the area. The incidence of rig and furrow is as shown on OS 6 inch to the north only.
The building at Old Shipley is an old cottage-cum-farm with no traces of any great antiquity; the slabs referred to were not found; there are two modern ruins at NU 15281822 and NU 15291818 - the whole site constitutes the remains of a depopulated hamlet. (3)

Generally in poor condition. Surveyed at 1:2500. (4)

Shipley deserted medieval village. Documentary references: 1296, 1336, 1361, 1580, 1694, 1756. Extensive earthwork remains north and east of a cottage at NU 153182. Rows of houses and tofts and a green. (5)

NU 153183. Deserted/shrunken village site photographed in 1981. (6)(7)

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