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SHIPLEY, Derbyshire - Extract from National Gazetteer, 1868

"SHIPLEY, a township in the parish of Heanor, hundred of Morleston, county Derby, 7 miles N.E. of Derby, its post town, 6 S.E. of Belper, and 2 S. of Heanor. It has a station at Shipley Gate, on the Erewash Valley branch of the Midland railway. A portion of the inhabitants are engaged in the collieries, from which coal of excellent quality is obtained. The mines are worked by a steam-engine.

The village, which is small, is situated near the river Erewash and the Nutbrook canal. Several branch lines of railway communicate with the collieries. The living is a perpetual curacy* in the diocese of Lichfield. The church is a modern edifice. In 1842 a school was established, at the expense of A. M. Mundy, Esq., who is lord of the manor and sole landowner. Shipley Hall is on an eminence, within a well-wooded park."

[Description(s) from The National Gazetteer of Great Britain and Ireland (1868)
Transcribed by Colin Hinson ©2003]

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