Shirebrook
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Shirebrook is a town and civil parish in the Bolsover District of Derbyshire, England. It had a population of 13,300 at the 2021 Census. The town is on the B6407 road and close to the A632 road which runs between the towns of Mansfield, Worksop and Bolsover. The town is close to the Bassetlaw and Mansfield Districts of Nottinghamshire.
Key facts
- UK place.country
- England
- UK place.label_position
- top
- UK place.official_name
- Shirebrook
- UK place.type
- Town and civil parish
- UK place.population
- 13,300
- UK place.population_ref
- (civil parish)
- UK place.shire_district
- Bolsover
- UK place.shire_county
- Derbyshire
- UK place.region
- East Midlands
- UK place.constituency_westminster
- Bolsover
- UK place.post_town
- Mansfield
- UK place.postcode_district
- NG20
- UK place.postcode_area
- NG
- UK place.dial_code
- 01623
- UK place.os_grid_reference
- SK522678
- UK place.mapframe
- yes
- UK place.mapframe zoom
- 12
- UK place.mapframe point
- none
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- civil parish
- Country
- United Kingdom
- Located in
- Bolsover
- Population
- 9760
- Time zone
- UTC±00:00
- Shares border with
- Pleasley
- Official website
- www.bolsover.gov.uk/default.aspx?page=7607
- Image
- The Great Northern, Shirebrook-by-al-partington.jpg
- Dialing code
- 01623
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- Commons category
- Shirebrook
- OS grid reference
- SK522678
- postal code
- NG20
- category of associated people
- Category:People from Shirebrook
- topic's main category
- Category:Shirebrook
- P8168
- perfect pitch
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Shirebrook is a town and civil parish in the Bolsover District of Derbyshire, England. It had a population of 13,300 at the 2021 Census. The town is on the B6407 road and close to the A632 road which runs between the towns of Mansfield, Worksop and Bolsover. The town is close to the Bassetlaw and Mansfield Districts of Nottinghamshire.
==Toponymy== According to David Mills in A Dictionary of British Place-Names, the area was first named in records in 1202 written in Old English as Scirebroc. This can be interpreted as Boundary or Bright Brook.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Shirebrook” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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