Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for Shipley

Shipley.-- township and vil. with ry. sta. (Shipley Gate), Heanor par., Derbyshire - township, 2111 ac., pop. 724; vil., 1½ mileNW. of Ilkeston; P.O., T.O.; has extensive coal mines; near the vil. is Shipley House, seat.


(John Bartholomew, Gazetteer of the British Isles (1887))

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "township and village with railway station"   (ADL Feature Type: "populated places")
Administrative units: Heanor AP/CP       Shipley CP/ParLib       Derbyshire AncC
Place: Shipley

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