Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for SHIPLEY

SHIPLEY, a township, with a il1age, in Heanor parish, Derby; adjacent to the Erewash railway, canal, and river, 2 miles NNW of Ilkeston. It has a r. station with telegraph, of the name of Shipley-Gate. Real property, £7,908; of which £5,000 are in mines, and £73 in the canal. Pop., 688. Houses, 118. The manor, with S. Hall, belongs to A. M. Mundy, Esq. Collieries here are worked with a steam-power equal to the power of 500 horses. There is a national school.


(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "a township"   (ADL Feature Type: "countries, 4th order divisions")
Administrative units: Heanor AP/CP       Shipley CP/ParLib       Derbyshire AncC
Place: Shipley

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