Place:


Shirebrook  Derbyshire

 

In 1870-72, John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales described Shirebrook like this:

SHIREBROOK, a chapelry in Pleaseley parish, Derby; 3¾ miles NNW of Mansfield r. station. It was constituted in 1849, and it has a post-office under Mansfield. Pop., 342. Houses, 70. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Lichfield. Value, £90.* Patron, the Rector of Pleaseley. The church was built in 1843.

Shirebrook through time

Shirebrook is now part of Bolsover district. Click here for graphs and data of how Bolsover has changed over two centuries. For statistics about Shirebrook itself, go to Units and Statistics.

How to reference this page:

GB Historical GIS / University of Portsmouth, History of Shirebrook, in Bolsover and Derbyshire | Map and description, A Vision of Britain through Time.

URL: https://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/place/5249

Date accessed: 29th March 2024


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