Shirebrook, United Kingdom
Shirebrook is a town of 10,885 people in England, United Kingdom.
Why visit Shirebrook
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About Shirebrook
Shirebrook is a town and civil parish in the Bolsover District of Derbyshire, England. It had a population of 13,300 at the 2021 Census. The town is on the B6407 road and close to the A632 road which runs between the towns of Mansfield, Worksop and Bolsover. The town is close to the Bassetlaw and Mansfield Districts of Nottinghamshire.
From the Wikipedia article Shirebrook (this version), under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Parks, trails and playgrounds3
Restaurants and cafes11
Churches and places of worship13
Church of St Chad, Pleasley Vale
Church · 1.6 mi
Church building in Mansfield, Nottinghamshire, England, UK
Church of St Edmund
Church · 2.9 mi
Church in Mansfield Woodhouse, Nottinghamshire, England, UK
St Mary's Church, Norton Cuckney
Church · 3.4 mi
Church in Bassetlaw, UK
St Peter and St Paul's Church, Church Warsop
Church · 2.7 mi
Church in Mansfield, UK
Church of the Holy Trinity
Church
Church building in Shirebrook, Bolsover, Derbyshire, England, UK
St Augustine's Church
Church · 1.4 mi
Church in Sookholme, Warsop, Mansfield, Nottinghamshire, England, UK
St Leonard's Church, Scarcliffe
Church · 2.0 mi
Church in Scarcliffe, England
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Shopping8
History
Prior to the intense and swift development of the Colliery at the turn of the 20th century, Shirebrook, even as late as 1872 it was little more than a chapelry of the larger Pleasley. Wilsons' Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales of 1870–72 describes "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."
Shirebrook Colliery was sunk in 1896–1897 by the Shirebrook Coal and Iron company on land owned by the Duke of Devonshire, Joseph Paget (a Pleasley Mills partner and the builder of Stuffynwood Hall), and the Nicholson and Fowler farming families. Professor Arnold Lupton of Sheffield was the mining engineer. The sinking of two shafts, plus a pumping shaft, was based on independent surveys by Henry Hall and Matthew Fisher, managers of working collieries. The shafts, 19 feet (5.8 m) wide, met the 'Top Hard' seam at 430 yards (390 m).
By 1897, a 'model village' was already being built close to the colliery to house workers. The Derbyshire Times of 30 July 1897 reported that "About half a mile away a model village is springing up, some 150 houses have already been erected and about 420 are to be built."
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Shirebrook Colliery operated in the town until April 1993. It had previously been linked underground to nearby Pleasley Colliery. The workforce was about evenly split during the strike of 1984–85, leading to deep community divisions between strikers and workers, and briefly earned the nickname "the Belfast of England".
From the History section of Shirebrook on Wikipedia, under CC BY-SA 4.0.
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Economy
Shirebrook is going through a period of transformation like other towns close by. The market place in Shirebrook is being improved – including resurfacing the marketplace, building a new Town Council building, introducing themed markets such as craft, arts and flea markets – at a cost of £15 million.
As part of the government's Levelling Up initiative, a plan to create affordable homes on part of the former colliery site has seen the First Homes pilot scheme established to allow local first-time buyers and key workers to buy new builds at a 30% discount of the market price.
Re-titled as Brook Park, half of the entire business park designated as Zone 1 was allocated to Sports Direct after a planning application to Bolsover District Council in 2004 for four giant warehouses totalling 111,000 square metres, with a training facility, helipad and a retail store.
In December 2017, the government through their Minister for Faith and Communities, Lord Bourne, announced a £1.26 million aid-package from the Controlling Migration Fund, after a bid from local networking groups Bolsover Partnership and Shirebrook Forward NG20 due to the large influx of Eastern European workers.
Education
Shirebrook Academy on Common Lane is the local secondary school for pupils aged 11–16.
Shirebrook also has many primary schools and nurseries such as:
From the Wikipedia article Shirebrook, under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Notable people from Shirebrook
Jason StathamEnglish actor (born 1967)Photo: MTV International, CC BY 3.0
John HurtBritish actor (1940–2017)Photo: David Shankbone, CC BY 3.0
Mason BennettEnglish association football player (born 1996)Photo: Timmy96, CC0- Ray WilsonEnglish footballer (1934-2018)
- Walter KeetonEnglish cricketer (1905-1980)
- Ernie EnglandEnglish footballer (1901-1982)
- George BowaterFootballer (1911-1966)
- Cyril PearceFootballer (1908-1990)
- Frank AllenEnglish footballer (1927-2014)
- Barry LyonsEnglish association football player and manager (born 1945)
- Sammy ChessellEnglish footballer (1921-1996)
- Dennis JonesEnglish footballer (1894-1961)
Born in Shirebrook, according to Wikidata (CC0). Each name links to its Wikipedia article.
Gas and EV charging1
Schools, colleges and libraries9
St Joseph's Catholic Primary School, A Voluntary Academy
School · Roman Catholic
Langwith Road, Mansfield
Map of Shirebrook
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Getting there and nearby towns
Nottingham City Airport (NQT) is the nearest airport with scheduled flights listed in OpenStreetMap, 21 miles away.
- Mansfield 5 mi south, about 8 min by car
- Staveley 7 mi northwest, about 12 min by car
- Chesterfield 9 mi west, about 14 min by car
- Sheffield 16 mi northwest, about 26 min by car
- Nottingham 17 mi south, about 28 min by car
- Rotherham 17 mi north, about 27 min by car
- Stapleford 20 mi south, about 32 min by car
- Wath upon Dearne 21 mi north, about 34 min by car
- Derby 22 mi southwest, about 36 min by car
- Doncaster 22 mi north, about 36 min by car
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Photo credits
- The Great Northern, Shirebrook-by-al-partington, al partington, CC BY-SA 2.0
- Holy Trinity Church, Shirebrook, MatthewDavid41, CC BY-SA 4.0
- Holy Trinity Parish Church, Shirebrook, MatthewDavid41, CC BY-SA 4.0
- Church of St Chad, Church Lane, Pleasley Vale, Nottinghamshire (1), Enchufla Con Clave, CC BY-SA 4.0
- Church Of St Edmund, Mansfield Woodhouse (4), Enchufla Con Clave, CC BY-SA 4.0
- St Mary's Church, Norton Lane, Cuckney (3), Enchufla Con Clave, CC BY-SA 4.0
- Warsop - Church, Dave Bevis, CC BY-SA 2.0
- Church of the Holy Cross at Langwith, Derbyshire, John Slater, CC BY-SA 2.0
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