Shirebrook
Also known as Shirebrook, Derbyshire, Shirebrook, Bolsover
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
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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.
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