Domesday
VI. The land of Henry de Ferrers
| In SHIRLEY Ketil and Wulfmær, Thorgisl, Alric, Algar, Wulfgear and Leofsige had 2 carucates of land , less half a bovate, to the geld. [There is] land for 2 ploughs. There are now 2 ploughs in demesne; and 6 villans and 7 bordars having 3 ploughs. There is a priest and a church, and 1 mill [rendering] 2s., [and] woodland pasture 1 league long and 1 broad. TRE worth 60s.; now 40[s.]. |
| bordar | Typically holding more land than a cottar but less than a villan, bordars were lower status than villans and likely subsistence rather than surplus farmers. They did not pay geld, probably little rent, and like cottars were reliant for supplementing their work on the demesne and villans. |
| bovate | A bovate was a measure of land which could be ploughed in one year by one eighth of a plough team with eight oxen, or in other words the measure of land representing one eighth of a carucate (about 15 acres). |
| carucate | Was nominally 120 acres, based on the area a plough team of eight oxen could till in a year. |
| demesne | All the land, not necessarily all contiguous, that was retained by a lord for his own use. |
| geld | The tax paid to the crown by English landholders. |
| league | Most often considered to be 3 miles. |
| TRE | Tempore regis Edwardi, in the time of King Edward. |
| villan | The highest and most numerous class of peasant. Holding land in the ploughland, villans were surplus farmers. |
And Beyond
Pigot and Co's Commercial Directory for Derbyshire, 1835
SHIRLEY, with the townships of STYDD and YEAVELEY, forming a parish, in the same hundred as Brailsford, is about 3 miles W. from that village, 9 N.W. from Derby, and 5 S. by E. from Ashbourn. The habitations are so scattered over the parish, that the features of a village are not to be recognised. The church, dedicated to St. Michael, is a small building, with a tower of wood. Shirley park, in this parish, occupies up wards of two hundred acres, and at one time was a noted cover for foxes. Part of the old manor house of the Shirleys, who settled here in the reign of Henry II, still exists attached to a farm house. The parish contained, at the last census, 602 inhabitants.
Kelly's Directory of the Counties of Derby, Notts, Leicester and Rutland, 1891
SHIRLEY is a township, parish and picturesque village, 4 miles south-east from Ashborne station on the Churnet Valley section of the North Staffordshire railway and north-west from Derby, in the Western division of the county, Appletree hundred, in the petty sessional division, union and county court district of Ashborne, rural dean of Ashborne, archdeaconry of Derby and diocese of Southwell. The church of St. Matthew, a building of stone, situated upon an acclivity, consists or chancel, nave of three bays, aisles, south porch and an embattled tower with four pinnacles, erected in 1861. and containing 3 bells, two of which are dated 1688 : in 1842 the north aisle was added and the church refitted, the chancel arch, the only remnant of the Early Norman church, being replaced by a Pointed arch ; all the ancient parts of the church now remaining, include the south aisle and its windows, and the arcade separating it from the nave, are Decorated : the chancel retains a piscina and in the opposite wall an almery ; there is also a piscina the south aisle : the font is an octagonal work of the 15th century : such ancient monuments as remained appear to have been destroyed in the repairs or 1842 : at the east end of the north aisle is a portion of the Norman tympanum, once placed over the principal entrance : in the north aisle is a handsome marble monument to the Right Rev. W.A. Shirley, Bishop of Sodor and Man, and previously archdeacon of Derby and vicar of Shirley, d. April 21, 1847 : and in 1873 a brass was erected to the late Canon WaIter Waddington Shirley of Christ Church, Oxford : some of the communion plate is dated 1620 ; but two pieces date from the reign of Henry VIl. : the chancel, which [with the great tithes] became the property of Sir Andrew B. Walker bart. on purchasing the Osmaston estate, was redecorated by him in 1886, and there is a brass plate to that effect within the chancel : there are 200 sittings, half of which are free. The churchyard contains the remains of an ancient stone pillar monument, and a fine yew tree, the circumference of which, at four feet from the ground, is 17 feet. The register dates from the year 1658 for all entries, and is in excellent condition. The living is a vicarage, average tithe rent-charge £195, with 9 acres of glebe, value £25, net yearly value £247, with residence, in the gift of Mrs. Shirley's trustees, and held since 1886 by the Rev. William Richardson Linton M.A. of Corpus Christi college, Oxford. The vicarage is situated about a quarter of a mile from the church. Here is a Wesleyan chapel. A reading room was opened January 1st, 1877, and is well supplied with daily papers, periodicals and magazines, and possesses also a library containing over 160 volumes : the vicar is president. Here are charities amounting to £1 6s. 8d. yearly. Mrs. Shirley is lady of the manor. Sir Andrew Barclay Walker bart. of Osmaston, and the trustees of the late Rev. W. W. Shirley D.D. are chief landowners. The soil is light; subsoil, gravel and sand. The land is chiefly kept in pasture for dairy produce. The acreage is 1,611 ; rateable value, £2,770 ; the population in 1881 was 243 in the township. Parish Clerk, Samuel Goodall. WALL LETTER BOX, in school wall, cleared at 6 p.m. Letters through Derby via Brailsford, which is the nearest money order & telegraph office arrive at 9 a.m. National School (mixed), erected with residence in 1844, by subscription, assisted by a parliamentary grant, for 60 children; average attendance, 40; Miss Cath. Moore, mist Linton Rev. William Richardson [vicar], Vicarage
COMMERCIAL. Balnbrigge Eli, butcher Blore George, farmer Bott Sarah (Mrs.), shopkeeper Cresswell Robert, farmer, Shirley hall Dakin Wm. farmer, Shirley common Darbyshire George, farmer Gilman James, farmer Gilman Letitia (Mrs.),farmr. Mt. Pleasnt Goodall Leah (Miss), milliner & dress ma Goodall Richard, farmer Howard George, poultry dealer Jackson Joseph, yeoman Mansfield Francis, farmer Maskery John, boot & shoe maker Maskery Joseph, framer Maskery Mary (Miss), dress maker Maskery William, farmer & carpenter Mason Willam, farmer Massey Joseph, farmer, Shirley lodge Mellor Elizabeth (Mrs.),.Saracen's Head Osborne Ann (Mrs.), farmer, Cottage frm Reading Room (Rev. W.R. Linton M.A. president) Redshaw Wm. farmer, Old Park farm Strong Thomas William, grocer& farmer Swindell Samuel, miller (water) & farmer Tunstall Daniel, brick maker Wheeldon Alfred, farmer Wheeldon Charles, farmer Wheeldon Thomas, farmer, Flat farm Wheeldon William, farmer Wibberley Frederick, farmer, Wormsey
John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales, 1870-72
SHIRLEY, a township and a parish in Ashborne district, Derby. The township lies 4 miles SE of Ashborne r. station. Real property, £2,738. Pop., 301. Houses, 66. The parish includes two other townships, and com prises 3,560 acres. Post town, Brailsford, under Derby. Pop., 596. Houses, 128. The property is subdivided. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Lichfield. Value, £179.* Patron, Earl Ferrers. The church was repaired in 1842. The vicarage of Yeaveley is a separate benefice. There are two dissenting chapels and two national schools."
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