Shirley, Warwickshire

Historical Description

Shirley, a village and an ecclesiastical parish in Solihull parish, Warwickshire. The village is 2½ miles W by S of Solihull, and 6 SSE of Birmingham, and has a post office under Birmingham; money order and telegraph office, Solihull. The ecclesiastical parish was constituted in 1843. Population, 1465. Shirley is a ward of the parish council of Solihull, and returns four members to that council. Many good residences are in the parish. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Worcester; gross value, £191 with residence. Patron, the Rector of Solihull. The church was built in 1832, and restored and enlarged in 1883. There is a Baptist chapel.

Administration

The following is a list of the administrative units in which this place was either wholly or partly included.

Any dates in this table should be used as a guide only.

Church Records

The Warwickshire County Record Office hold the following registers for Shirley:

Directories & Gazetteers

We have transcribed the entry for Shirley from the following:

• Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Shirley-Street)

Land and Property

The Return of Owners of Land in 1873 for Warwickshire is available to browse.

Maps

Online maps of Shirley are available from a number of sites:

• Bing (Current Ordnance Survey maps).
• Google Streetview.
• National Library of Scotland. (Old maps)
• OpenStreetMap.
• old-maps.co.uk (Old Ordnance Survey maps to buy).
• Streetmap.co.uk (Current Ordnance Survey maps).
• A Vision of Britain through Time. (Old maps)

Newspapers and Periodicals

The British Newspaper Archive have fully searchable digitised copies of the following Warwickshire papers online:

• Leamington Spa Courier

Visitations Heraldic

The Visitation of Warwickshire 1619 is available on the Heraldry page.