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The town of Shirley was settled in the 1720s and incorporated in 1775. Its colonial town center (recognized in the Shirley Center Historic District) was nearer its geographic center than Shirley Village. The village grew in the 19th century as an industrial site, overtaking the original center economically, and eventually also becoming the site ...
Shirley North is a ward in the London Borough of Croydon. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] It was created from the eastern half of Ashburton ward, and the area north of Wickham Road in Shirley ward. The first election was on 3 May 2018.
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Monks Orchard is a suburb on the edge of the London Borough of Croydon, in the ceremonial county of Greater London, England, prior to 1965 it was located in the historical county of Surrey. [1]
The Shirley Center Historic District encompasses the original historic center of Shirley, Massachusetts. The district is centered on the 1753 town common area, from which five roads (Brown, Center, Horsepond, Parker and Whitney Roads) radiate away. The district includes the buildings that surround the common, as well as some that line these roads.
Croydon Corporation bought the house and grounds by Compulsory Purchase Order in 1924. [2] Most of the buildings were torn down, with a putting green (no longer there) being laid on the site. [2] The only remaining part of the house was the c. 1878 extension which became Ashburton Library. [3]
Shirley is a census-designated place (CDP) comprising the main village in the town of Shirley in Middlesex County, Massachusetts, United States. The population was 1,611 at the 2020 census , [ 2 ] out of 7,431 in the entire town of Shirley.
New construction was done on site and the total facility was converted into the Massachusetts Correctional Institution complex. A historic district, encompassing the Shaker-related resources on more than 700 acres (280 ha) of land in Shirley and Lancaster, was defined and listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1976. [3]