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Shipley, Derbyshire

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Population
  
710 (2011)

Country
  
England

Post town
  
Heanor

Dialling code
  
01773

District
  
Amber Valley

Region
  
East Midlands

Sovereign state
  
United Kingdom

Postcode district
  
DE

Shire county
  
Derbyshire

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Shipley is a village in the south-east of Derbyshire in the East Midlands of England. Since 1974 it has been part of the Borough of Amber Valley. The population of the civil parish as taken at the 2011 Census was 710.

Map of Shipley, Heanor, UK

Shipley is first mentioned in the Domesday Book of 1086, in the form Scipelei. The name apparently derives from the Old English scēap ('sheep') and lēah ('open ground, such as meadow, pasture, or arable land'). Thus it means 'sheep-clearing' or 'sheep-pasture'.

Shipley separates the Ilkeston and Heanor urban areas, which are linked by the main A6007 road. It also incorporates most of the Shipley Country Park and the hamlet known as 'The Field' which is usually seen as the centre of the civil parish, with the Anglican Parish Church being at Cotmanhay, to the north of Ilkeston.

The Nutbrook Canal, completed in 1796 linked Shipley to the Erewash Canal.

References

Shipley, Derbyshire Wikipedia


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