Shirley is a small village and civil parish in Derbyshire, south-east of Ashbourne. The population of the civil parish as taken at the 2011 Census was 270. It is situated in the countryside on top of a small hill.
History
Shirley was mentioned in the Domesday Book as belonging to Henry de Ferrers and being worth forty shillings.
In the nineteenth century St Michael's Church, Shirley was led by the Rev. Charles Francis Powys who had a number of literary children.
Notable residents
- John Cowper Powys, born in the town, "Derbyshire's most prolific author", according to Tom Bates
- Theodore Francis Powys, born in the town, author
- Gertrude Mary Powys, born in the town, painter
- Littleton Charles Powys, author and headmaster of Sherborne School
- Prof. Rev. Walter Waddington Shirley, historian at Oxford University
- Rev. William Richardson Linton, clergyman and botanist who wrote a Flora of Derbyshire and discovered Rubus durescens, a bramble endemic to Derbyshire
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