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Shardlow Hall is a 17th-century former country house at Shardlow, Derbyshire now in use as commercial offices. It is a Grade II* listed building which is officially listed on the Buildings at Risk Register .
Shardlow is a village in Derbyshire, England about 6 miles (9.7 km) southeast of Derby and 11 miles (18 km) southwest of Nottingham.Part of the civil parish of Shardlow and Great Wilne, and the district of South Derbyshire, it is also very close to the border with Leicestershire, defined by the route of the River Trent which passes close to the south.
The parish contains the village of Shardlow, the smaller village of Great Wilne, and the surrounding area. Shardlow is at the southern end of the Trent and Mersey Canal, and a number of buildings relating to the canal are listed, including warehouses, mileposts, a bridge and a lock. Most of the other listed buildings are houses, cottages and ...
In 1009 Æþelræd Unræd (King Ethelred the Unready) signed a charter at the Great Council which recognised the position and boundaries of Westune. [2] The land described in that charter included the lands now known as Shardlow, Great Wilne, Church Wilne, Crich, Smalley, Morley, Weston and Aston-on-Trent.
Shardlow Hall was a school in Shardlow, a village seven miles south of Derby in the English Midlands. It was founded by B.O.Corbett, who had played football for England, [2] as a preparatory school for boys. One of its notable students was John Harris, who wrote under the name John Wyndham. [3]
Shardlow Rural District Council established a Draycott and Breaston sewerage and disposal works to the east of Draycott village at the turn of the 20th century. This remained a key local water processing facility until the nearby Church Wilne Water Treatment Works was created within Breaston parish in 1967. A pumping station remains onsite.
The log boat was discovered at the Hanson gravel pit in Shardlow, a village south of Derby, in 1998, as part of an archaeological watching brief during quarrying operations at the site. [1] The boat was almost complete but was damaged slightly by the quarry machinery before its importance was identified.
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