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Shipston-upon-Stour – a market town, in the hundred of Oswaldslow, upper division, detached from the county, having Gloucestershire on one side, and Warwickshire on the other; containing 314 inhabited houses. Its name is descriptive of its situation upon the river, and its having been one of the largest sheep markets in the kingdom. Here was formerly a large manufacture of shags, carried on by a Mr. Harte, who left a considerable property to his nephew, on condition that he should continue to carry on the concern for the benefit of the place, but which he soon declined. The living is a rectory, with Tidmington annexed; Rev. John Jones, D.D. incumbent; instituted 1795; patron, Dean and Chapter of Worcester, one turn, and Jesus College, Oxford, two turns. Population, 1801, 1293 – 1811, 1377 – 1821, 1562.

Source: Worcestershire Delineated: Being a Topographical Description of Each Parish, Chapelry, Hamlet, &c. In the County; with the distances and bearings from their respective market towns, &c. By C. and J. Greenwood. Printed by T. Bensley, Crane Court, Fleet Street, London, 1822.