SHIPTON-BELLINGER, a parish in the hundred
of THORNGATE, Andover division of the county of
SOUTHAMPTON, 4 miles (S.W. byS.) from Ludgershall,
containing 267 inhabitants. The living is a discharged
vicarage, in the archdeaconry and diocese of Winchester,
rated in the king's books at £ 8, and endowed with
£200 royal bounty. J. Gilbert, Esq. was patron in
1812. The church is dedicated to St. Mary. This parish
is within the jurisdiction of the Cheyney Court
held at Winchester every Thursday, for the recovery of
debts to any amount.