SHIRLAND, Derbyshire
Census
- The parish was in the Chesterfield Registration District.
- The table below gives census piece numbers, where known:
| Census Year |
Piece No. |
|---|---|
| 1861 | R.G. 9 / 2526 |
| 1891 | R.G. 12 / 2759< |
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Church Records
- A CD containing a transcription of The Parish Registers of St Leonard's Church is available for purchase from Valerie Neal. Added 20 Nov 2009.
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Civil Registration
- Civil Registration began in July, 1837.
- The parish was in the Chesterfield Registration District.
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Description and Travel
"SHIRLAND is a parish, in the hundred of Scarsdale, two miles S.W. from Alfreton, containing the hamlet of HIGHAM, which was formerly a market town, but discontinued as such about 1785. Higham is a place of considerable antiquity situate on the Iknield-street of the Romans. The parish church, dedicated to St. Leonard contains several ancient monuments of the De Greys. The parish contained, in 1831, 1,212 inhabitants, and Higham 595 of that number."
[Description from Pigot and Co's Commercial Directory for Derbyshire, 1835]
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Gazetteers
- The transcription of the section for Shirland from the National Gazetteer (1868) provided by Colin Hinson.