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SHIRLEY, Derbyshire

"SHIRLEY, with the townships of STYDD and YEAVELEY, forming a parish, in the same hundred as Brailsford, is about 3 miles W. from that village, 9 N.W. from Derby, and 5 S. by E. from Ashbourn. The habitations are so scattered over the parish, that the features of a village are not to be recognised. The church, dedicated to St. Michael, is a small building, with a tower of wood. Shirley park, in this parish, occupies up wards of two hundred acres, and at one time was a noted cover for foxes. Part of the old manor house of the Shirleys, who settled here in the reign of Henry II, still exists attached to a farm house. The parish contained, at the last census, 602 inhabitants."

[Description from Pigot and Co's Commercial Directory for Derbyshire, 1835]

Cemeteries

• Some Memorial Inscriptions in St Michael's Churchyard, Shirley, collected and transcribed by Alf Beard.

Church History

• Photograph of St Michael's Church, Shirley, from Alf Beard.

Church Records

• A CD containing a transcription of The Parish Registers of St Michael's Church (CMB 1663-1905) is available for purchase from 'Ancestral Archives'. Added 19 Nov 2005.

Directories

• Directory for Brailsford, Langley, Longford, Shirley and neighbourhoods transcribed from Pigot and Co's Commercial Directory for Derbyshire, 1835 by Rosemary Lockie.

• Transcription of section of Kelly's Directory (1891) for Shirley by Ann Andrews.

Gazetteers

• The transcription of the section for Shirley from the National Gazetteer (1868) provided by Colin Hinson.

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