The Archive attempts to corral information about Shirley, in the Derbyshaire Dales district of England, into one place. It is licensed under Creative Commons CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 which you should read belore lifting any information from the site.

Categories

The archive is split into the categories below. You can view the archive contents for a category by clicking the category heading.

Buildings include dwellings, churches, places of work and agricultural buildings such as cowsheds.

Documents include text, scans, images, photographs and internet URLs.

Households are the basic residential unit in which economic production, consumption, inheritance, child rearing, and shelter are organised and carried out.

Memorials are typically a tombstones in the burial ground. They also include plaques and memorials in the church.

People who have lived in or had an influence on the village.

Rights of way, lanes or roads in the parish.

Structures and artefacts are anything left from the above. Structures include things like the Saxon cross in the burial ground or the telephone box. Artefacts include the 14c tile discovered during improvements to the church.