Shipley, Derbyshire

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.[1]

Shipley

Hardy Barn at Shipley on the main Ilkeston - Heanor Road (A6007).
Shipley
Location within Derbyshire
Population710 (2011)
OS grid referenceSK449448
District
Shire county
Region
CountryEngland
Sovereign stateUnited Kingdom
Post townHEANOR
Postcode districtDE75
Dialling code01773
PoliceDerbyshire
FireDerbyshire
AmbulanceEast Midlands
UK Parliament

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'.[2]

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[3] linked Shipley to the Erewash Canal.

References
  1. "Civil Parish population 2011". Neighbourhood Statistics. Office for National Statistics. Retrieved 17 March 2016.
  2. Kenneth Cameron, The Place-Names of Derbyshire, English Place-Name Society, 27–29 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1959), ii 502.
  3. P. Hardcastle. "Nutbrook Canal". Archived from the original on 6 December 2006.

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