Shipley is a village in the south-east of

Derbyshire Derbyshire ( ) is a ceremonial county in the East Midlands, England. It includes much of the Peak District National Park, the southern end of the Pennine range of hills and part of the National Forest. It borders Greater Manchester to the nor ...

in the

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. Since 1974 it has been part of the Borough of

Amber Valley Amber Valley is a local government district and borough in the east of Derbyshire, England, taking its name from the River Amber. It covers a semi-rural zone with four main towns whose economy was based on coal mining and remains to some exte ...

. The population of the civil parish as taken at the 2011 Census was 710. Shipley is first mentioned in the

Domesday Book Domesday Book () – the Middle English spelling of "Doomsday Book" – is a manuscript record of the "Great Survey" of much of England and parts of Wales completed in 1086 by order of King William I, known as William the Conqueror. The manusc ...

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'.Kenneth Cameron, ''The Place-Names of Derbyshire'', English Place-Name Society, 27–29 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1959), ii 502. Shipley separates the Ilkeston and

Heanor Heanor (/ˈhiːnə/) is a town in the Amber Valley district of Derbyshire in the East Midlands of England. It lies north-east of Derby and forms, with the adjacent village of Loscoe, the civil parish and town council-administered area of He ...

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 In England, a civil parish is a type of administrative parish used for local government. It is a territorial designation which is the lowest tier of local government below districts and counties, or their combined form, the unitary authorit ...

, with the Anglican Parish Church being at

Cotmanhay Cotmanhay is a village in Derbyshire, England and used to be a Viking settlement. Cotmanhay is in the Erewash Borough Council area, north of Ilkeston. Recently a flint implement was found at the edge of Cotmanhay Wood, indicating that the area was ...

, to the north of Ilkeston. The Nutbrook Canal, completed in 1796 linked Shipley to the

Erewash Canal The Erewash Canal is a broad canal in Derbyshire, England. It runs just under and has 14 locks. The first lock at Langley Bridge is part of the Cromford Canal. Origins The canal obtained its act of parliament in 1777 with John Varley ...

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Shipley on GENUKIShipley Country Park (Derbyshire County Council)
{{authority control Villages in Derbyshire Geography of Amber Valley

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