SHIPLEY, a parish in the hundred of WEST-GRINSTEAD, rape of BRAMBER, county of SUSSEX, 6 miles (S. S, W.) from Horsham, containing 1159 inhabitants. The living is a perpetual curacy, in the archdeaconry and diocese of Chichester, endowed with £200 private benefaction, £200 royal bounty, and £600 parliamentary grant, and in the patronage of the Rector of Coombs. The church, dedicated to St. Mary, is principally in the Norman style.