Shirley is a small village and civil parish in Derbyshire, 4 miles (6 km) south-east of Ashbourne. The population of the civil parish as taken at the...
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Shirley, Derbyshire, England Shirley, Hampshire, a hamlet in Sopley parish, New Forest Shirley, Southampton, a district of Southampton, Hampshire Shirley, London...
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Shirley is a civil parish in the Derbyshire Dales district of Derbyshire, England. The parish contains 16 listed buildings that are recorded in the National...
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St Michael's Church, Shirley is a Grade II* listed parish church in the Church of England: 318 in Shirley, Derbyshire. The church dates from the 14th...
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John Cowper Powys (category People from Derbyshire Dales (district))
English novelist, philosopher, lecturer, critic and poet born in Shirley, Derbyshire, where his father was vicar of the parish church in 1871–1879. Powys...
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T. F. Powys (category People from Derbyshire Dales (district))
such as Thomas Hardy and Friedrich Nietzsche. Powys was born in Shirley, Derbyshire, the son of the Reverend Charles Francis Powys (1843–1923), vicar...
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Wallasey; Inferred County: Derbyshire; Volume Number: 10a; Page Number: 852 "Shirley's History: Setting the Record Straight". Shirley Ballas official site....
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having lived in the parish of Shirley found in the counties of Derbyshire, Surrey, Hampshire and the West Midlands. Anne Shirley (actress) (1918–1993), American...
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William Richardson Linton (category People from Derbyshire Dales (district))
1908 in Ashbourne, Derbyshire), Corpus Christi College, M.A., was an English botanist and vicar of the parish of Shirley, Derbyshire. He was regarded as...
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moved their seat to Shirley, Derbyshire. In earlier centuries, the grounds were a deerpark. According to Alice Dryden: Sir Ralph Shirley leased the manor...
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land seized upon and described" ranging from Powys's birthplace in Shirley, Derbyshire, to Dorchester, Dorset, where his novel Maiden Castle is set, to...
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all places full of memories for him. While Powys had been born in Shirley, Derbyshire and lived there for this first seven years of his life, his father...
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University Press. pp. 225–232. Edees, Eric Smoothey (1963). "Notes on Derbyshire bramble" (PDF). BSBI Proceedings. 5: 13–19. Armstrong, Patrick (2000)...
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Sewallis Edward Shirley, 10th Earl Ferrers KStJ (24 January 1847 – 26 July 1912), styled Viscount Tamworth until 1859, was a British hereditary peer....
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Listed buildings in England (section Derbyshire)
buildings in Rowland, Derbyshire Listed buildings in Rowsley Listed buildings in Sheldon, Derbyshire Listed buildings in Shirley, Derbyshire Listed buildings...
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descendants took on the surname Shirley from Shirley, Derbyshire where they had their seat. The manor remained with the Shirley family until the reign of Henry...
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It". While the novelist John Cowper Powys (1872–1963) was born in Shirley, Derbyshire, his father was from Dorset and the family moved to Dorchester, Dorset...
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Shirley Wray Abbott (10 February 1889 – 26 September 1947) was an English professional footballer who captained Chesterfield and Portsmouth in the Football...
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buildings in Rowland, Derbyshire Listed buildings in Rowsley Listed buildings in Sheldon, Derbyshire Listed buildings in Shirley, Derbyshire Listed buildings...
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Walter Augustus Shirley, bishop of Sodor and Man, he was born at Shirley, Derbyshire, on 24 July 1828. In 1837 he became pupil no. 2, second only to the...
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The Sheriff of Nottinghamshire, Derbyshire and the Royal Forests is a position established by the Normans in England. The sheriff is the oldest secular...
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This is a list of places in Derbyshire, England. Contents: A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z See also Abbot's Chair Abney Aldercar Alderwasley...
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Earl Ferrers (redirect from Robert Shirley, 14th Earl Ferrers)
quotation to verify] In 2003, he lived at The Old Vicarage, Shirley, Ashbourne, Derbyshire. On 13 November 2012, he succeeded as the Earl Ferrers (G.B...
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Well dressing (category Culture in Derbyshire)
petals. The custom is most closely associated with the Peak District of Derbyshire and Staffordshire. James Murray Mackinlay, writing in 1893, noted that...
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Sir Lewis Casson, English-born artist (died 1969) 20 December (in Shirley, Derbyshire) – T. F. Powys, Anglo-Welsh writer (died 1953) 25 December – George...
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John Butler (author) (category People from Derbyshire)
May 1937) is a British author, YouTuber and retired farmer living in Derbyshire. A graduate of the University of Nottingham, Butler is known for having...
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Huntingdonshire, Warwickshire, Derbyshire, and Staffordshire, and an income from which he was able to draw several legacies of £2000 each. Shirley, E. P. (c. 1873)...
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Laurence Shirley, 4th Earl Ferrers (18 August 1720 – 5 May 1760) was an English nobleman, notable for being the last peer to be hanged, following his...
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Robert Shirley, 6th Earl Ferrers (20 July 1723 – 18 April 1787) was a British Hereditary peer. Ferrers was born in 1723 in St James, Westminster, the...
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1163/9789047427087_014, ISBN 978-90-474-2708-7 Chapman, Shirley; Derbyshire, Desmond C. (1991). "Paumarí". In Derbyshire, Desmond C.; Pullum, Geoffrey K. (eds.). Handbook...
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