Shiplake

Coordinates: 51°30′11″N 0°53′56″W / 51.503°N 0.899°W / 51.503; -0.899

Shiplake is a rural village and civil parish on the River Thames situated 2.3 miles (3.7 km) south of Henley-on-Thames in Oxfordshire, England.

In the village is Shiplake Railway Station, the second of three stations on the Henley Branch Line which provides train services requiring a change at the small town of Twyford to the south, to and from London Paddington. The railway line crosses the river Thames via Shiplake Railway Bridge.

The main road from Henley to Reading, Berkshire, which is 4 miles (6.4 km) to the south-west, passes the edge of the village.

Shiplake College is a large independent school based in the village.

Parish church

The Church of St Peter and St Paul dates from at least the 13th century and is the centre of the ecclesiastical parish of Shiplake in the diocese of Oxford. In 1869 the Gothic Revival architect, G. E. Street, rebuilt the chancel, north aisle, parts of the south aisle and replaced all its windows' traceries.