Shirebrook
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Shirebrook | |
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Location withinDerbyshire | |
Population | 13,300 (civil parish)[1] |
OS grid reference | SK522678 |
District | |
Shire county | |
Region | |
Country | England |
Sovereign state | United Kingdom |
Post town | MANSFIELD |
Postcode district | NG20 |
Dialling code | 01623 |
Police | Derbyshire |
Fire | Derbyshire |
Ambulance | East Midlands |
UK Parliament | |
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Shirebrookis a town andcivil parishin theBolsover DistrictofDerbyshire,England.[2]It had a population of 13,300 at the 2021 Census.[3]The town is on the B6407 road and close to theA632 roadwhich runs between the towns ofMansfield,WorksopandBolsover.The town is close to theBassetlawandMansfield DistrictsofNottinghamshire.
Economy
[edit]History
[edit]According to David Mills inA Dictionary of British Place-Names,[4]the area was first named in records in 1202 written in Old English as Scirebroc. This can be interpreted as Boundary or Bright Brook.
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 achapelryof the largerPleasley.Wilsons' Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales of 1870–72[5]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[6]on land owned by theDuke of Devonshire,Joseph Paget (a Pleasley Mills partner and the builder of Stuffynwood Hall), and the Nicholson and Fowler farming families. ProfessorArnold LuptonofSheffieldwas 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 Timesof 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 nearbyPleasley Colliery.[7]The workforce was about evenly split during thestrike of 1984–85,leading to deep community divisions between strikers and workers, and briefly earned the nickname "the Belfast of England".[8]
In addition to two ongoing fabrication-engineering businesses at nearbyLangwith,Shirebrook has a large furniture retailer.
Regeneration
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The 93-acre former Shirebrook Colliery site was reclaimed for development at a cost of £24million, funded byEnglish Partnershipsand administered byEast Midlands Development Agency.[9]
The former Great Northernpubin Main Street was converted in 2016 to an alcohol-free homeless shelter for a maximum of 15 men as an outpost-mission by Lighthouse Homes, a church project originally based inRotherham.[10][11][12][13][14]
Sports Direct hub
[edit]Re-titled as Brook Park, half of the entire business park designated as Zone 1 was allocated toSports Directafter a planning application toBolsover District Councilin 2004 for four giant warehouses totalling 111,000 square metres, with a training facility,helipadand a retail store.[9] [15][16]
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Community building
[edit]In December 2017, the government through theirMinister for Faith and Communities,Lord Bourne,announced a £1.26 million aid-package from theControlling Migration Fund,after a bid from local networking groups Bolsover Partnership and Shirebrook Forward NG20 due to the large influx of Eastern European workers.
The money is a two-year investment intended to improve access to public services, stage community events, improve the shopping and Market Square area and ease pressures on housing, schooling and health services resulting from recent migration.
The project namedBuilding Resiliencewill see investment into seven core areas:[17]
- Community resilience
- Market Square Enlivenment
- Migrant community access
- Improve access and quality of private sector housing
- Social Norms and UK Laws
- Additional GP resources
- Healthy Workforce Programme
Shirebrook Town Hall was constructed as a new build on the site of a former storage unit on the market square. It opened in 2019 as a 'one stop shop' with customer contact centre and payment counter at ground floor level, and offices for Town Council and Bolsover District business above.[18][19]The council's claim is "...we believe it to be one of the largest, if not the largest town centre square in England".[20]
Housing
[edit]As part of the government'sLevelling Upinitiative, a plan to create affordable homes on part of the former colliery site has seen theFirst Homespilot scheme established to allow local first-time buyers and key workers to buy new builds at a 30% discount of the market price.[21][22][23]
Education
[edit]Shirebrook Academyon Common Lane is the local secondary school for pupils aged 11–16.
Shirebrook also has many primary schools and nurseries such as:
- Park Infant & Nursery Schools
- Park Junior School
- Stubbin Wood Special School
- Brookfield Primary School
- Model Village Primary School
Media
[edit]Local TV coverage is provided byBBC Yorkshire and LincolnshireandBBC East MidlandsonBBC Oneand byITV YorkshireandITV Centralon ITV1. Television signals are received from either theBelmontorWalthamTV transmitters.[24][25]
The town is served by bothBBC Radio Sheffieldon 94.7 FM andBBC Radio Nottinghamon 95.5 FM. Other radio stations includingCapital East Midlandson 96.5 FM,Greatest Hits Radio North Derbyshireon 107.4 FM and community-based stations broadcasting online:Mansfield Radioand Elastic FM.[26]
The town is served by the local newspapers theMansfield and Ashfield Chadand theDerbyshire Times.[27][28]
Railway
[edit]Shirebrook once had threerailway stations.The last remaining station was on theMidland Railway(later part of theLMS) route fromNottinghamtoWorksopviaMansfield,and was originally known as Shirebrook West, despite being on the eastern edge of the town. The route lost its passenger services in October 1964, leaving Shirebrook without a station, but the line remained open as a goods route. On the site of the goods yard a diesel locomotive fuelling depot was opened in the mid-1960s. The station was re-opened in 1998 asShirebrook railway stationfor the newRobin Hood Lineservices from Nottingham to Worksop via Mansfield. A wagon repair and manufacturing business have a rail link with the main line.
Shirebrook North station(originally known as "Langwith Junction", until renamed in June 1924), was opened by theLancashire, Derbyshire and East Coast Railway[29](later part of theGreat Central Railwayand subsequently theLondon & North Eastern Railway) in March 1897 and closed in September 1955. By then only one of the four routes converging on it was left- that toLincoln:theGreat Northern Railway's "Leen Valley Extension" line toPleasleyandSutton-in-Ashfieldhad closed in September 1931; the LD&ECR line toBeightonviaClownein September 1939, and that toChesterfieldviaBolsoverin December 1951, due to the unsafe condition ofBolsover Tunnel.The filling in of the tunnel began on 10 October 1966, and used waste from Bolsover Colliery. The mouth of the old tunnel can be found on the southern edge of Scarcliffe, emerging just south of Ridgdale Road, Bolsover.
Shirebrook South station was on the Great Northern Railway's "Leen Valley Extension" line mentioned above, opened in November 1901 and closed in September 1931.
Sport
[edit]The town's football clubShirebrook Townplay in the First Division of theNorthern Counties East Football League,and are based at Langwith Road. Before the current club was formed,Shirebrook Miners Welfare F.C.was the senior team in the area, competing in the FA Cup on occasion.
Notable people
[edit]- General SirJohn Coape Sherbrooke(1764–1830), General and administrator, Governor General of British North America, surname derived from Shirebrook by his father upon marriage
- Mason Bennett,footballer, born in nearbyLangwithand attended school in Shirebrook[30]
- John Hurt,actor, born in nearbyChesterfieldand lived in Shirebrook as a child[31]
- Jason Statham,actor, born in Shirebrook[32]
- Colin Tarrant,actor, born in Shirebrook[33]
- Ray Wilson,footballer, born in Shirebrook[34]
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^"Neighbourhood Statistics".Office for National Statistics.Retrieved8 October2014.
- ^OS Explorer Map 270: Sherwood Forest: (1:25 000):ISBN0 319 24040 1
- ^"Town population 2011".Neighbourhood Statistics.Office for National Statistics.Retrieved18 March2016.
- ^Mills, David (20 October 2011).A Dictionary of British Place-Names.ISBN9780199609086.
- ^"Wilsons Gazetteer 1870–72".
- ^"Picture the past".
- ^Northern Mine Research Society, the Nottinghamshire Coalfield
- ^MacIntyre, Donald (16 June 2014)."How the miners' strike of 1984–85 changed Britain for ever".New Statesman.UK.Retrieved18 March2016.
- ^abChadNottinghamshire local newspaper, 5 May 2004. Retrieved 30 November 2017
- ^"Recovery support".www.saferderbyshire.gov.uk.Derbyshire County Council.Retrieved6 May2024.
- ^"Great Northern, Shirebrook".CAMRA Experience.Retrieved6 May2024.
- ^Pub to be turned into a hostel for homeless menDerbyshire Times,19 July 2012. Archived fromthe originalon 21 August 2019. Retrieved 5 May 2024
- ^Lighthouse Homes – about usRetrieved 21 August 2019
- ^Homelessness project is offering beacon of hope.Chad(local newspaper), 22 June 2016, pp.27–27. Accessed 18 December 2020
- ^Shirebrook eyesore to be site for industrial developmentChad,local newspaper, 19 April 2002. Retrieved 19 March 2016
- ^Sports Direct Distribution Centre, Shirebrook, NottsMarch 2015, Retrieved 19 March 2016
- ^Minister for Faith Lord Bourne launches a £1.26 million government investment in Shirebrook,Bolsover District Council,14 December 2017. Retrieved 21 December 2017
- ^Opening date for Shirebrook Council officesChad,24 March 2019. Retrieved 7 December 2021
- ^Shirebrook Town HallDerbyshire Building Control partnership. Retrieved 7 December 2021
- ^Shirebrook Market Place set to be REimaged[sic]Bolsover District Council.Retrieved 9 February 2024
- ^Council Leader welcomes First Homes Scheme launch in ShirebrookBolsover District Council,June 2021. Retrieved 27 November 2021
- ^New Shirebrook housing development joins First Homes pilot scheme,Chad,3 September 2021. Retrieved 27 November 2021
- ^Key workers being helped on to housing ladder in Derbyshire is example of ‘levelling up’, says GovernmentDerbyshire Times,26 November 2021. Retrieved 27 November 2021
- ^"Full Freeview on the Waltham (Leicestershire, England) transmitter".UK Free TV.1 May 2004.Retrieved23 October2023.
- ^"Belmont (Lincolnshire, England) Full Freeview transmitter".UK Free TV.1 May 2004.Retrieved23 October2023.
- ^"About Us".Elastic FM.Retrieved23 October2023.
- ^"Mansfield and Ashfield Chad".British Papers.24 August 2013.Retrieved23 October2023.
- ^"Derbyshire Times".British Papers.30 December 2013.Retrieved23 October2023.
- ^Cupit,T., Taylor, W., (1984 2nd.Ed.)The Lancashire, Derbyshire and East Coast Railway,Trowbridge: The Oakwood Press
- ^Rollin, Glenda; Rollin, Jack, eds. (2012).Sky Sports Football Yearbook 2012–2013(43rd ed.). London:Headline.p. 463.ISBN978-0-7553-6356-8.
- ^"John Hurt – Famous Derbyshire People".Peakdistrictonline.co.uk. 23 April 2012.
- ^"Jason Statham – Biography, Photos, News, Videos, Movie Reviews".Contactmusic.com.
- ^"Bill Legend Colin Tarrant Suicide Shock ",The People,29 January 2012
- ^Williams, Richard (16 May 2018)."Ray Wilson, the modest linchpin of England's 1966 World Cup winners".The Guardian.Retrieved16 May2018.
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