Shirebrook, Derbyshire Family History Guide

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Shirebrook is an Ecclesiastical Parish in the county of Derbyshire, created in 1849 from a chapelry in Pleasley Ancient Parish.

Alternative names:

Parish church:

Parish registers begin:

  • Parish registers: 1844
  • Bishop’s Transcripts: 1856

Nonconformists include: Primitive Methodist

Adjacent Parishes

Parish History

The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870

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.

Source: The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales [Wilson, John M]. A. Fullarton & Co. N. d. c. [1870-72].

Maps

Vision of Britain historical maps

Administration

  • County: Derbyshire
  • Civil Registration District: Mansfield
  • Probate Court: Court of the Bishop of Lichfield (Episcopal Consistory)
  • Diocese: Lichfield
  • Rural Deanery: Chesterfield
  • Poor Law Union: Mansfield
  • Hundred: Scarsdale
  • Province: Canterbury