Shirley
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Shirley may refer to:
United States
New Zealand
Canada
- Shirley (name)Shirley (name)- Given name :Before the publication of the novel Shirley by Charlotte Brontë in 1849 Shirley was an uncommon, but distinctly male name and would have been a very unusual name for a woman...
, either a given name or a surname
Places
United Kingdom- Shirley, DerbyshireShirley, DerbyshireShirley is a small village in Derbyshire, close to the town of Ashbourne. It is situated in the countryside on top of a small hill.-History:Shirley was mentioned in the Domesday book as belonging to Henry de Ferrers and being worth forty shillings.....
, England - Shirley, SouthamptonShirley, SouthamptonShirley is a district on the Western side of Southampton, England. Shirley's main roles are retailing and residential. It is the most important suburban shopping area in the west of the city. Housing is a mixture of council houses in the centre of the district surrounded by private housing, with...
, a district of Southampton, England - Shirley, LondonShirley, LondonShirley is a place in the London Borough of Croydon, England. It is a suburban development situated 10 miles south south-east of Charing Cross.-Description:...
(London Borough of Croydon, England) – formerly in Surrey - Shirley, West MidlandsShirley, West MidlandsShirley is a district of the Metropolitan Borough of Solihull, in the county of West Midlands, England. It is a residential and shopping neighbourhood, and a suburb of Solihull.-History:...
, England – formerly in Warwickshire
United States
- Shirley, ArkansasShirley, ArkansasShirley is a town in northeast Van Buren County, Arkansas, United States, along the Middle Fork of the Little Red River. A one-time railroad outpost, the community today is oriented toward agriculture, particularly its cultivation of shiitake mushrooms....
- Shirley, California (disambiguation)
- Shirley, IllinoisShirley, IllinoisShirley is a small unincorporated municipality located in southwestern McLean County. It sits right off Interstate 55. It was founded in 1854 and currently has a population of 378. Shirley is home to the Funk Prairie Home & Rock Museum.-History:...
- Shirley, IndianaShirley, IndianaShirley is a town in Brown Township, Hancock County and Greensboro Township, Henry County in the U.S. state of Indiana. The population was 830 at the 2010 census.-History:...
- Shirley, MaineShirley, MaineShirley is a town in Piscataquis County, Maine, United States. The town was named after Shirley, Massachusetts. The population was 183 at the 2000 census...
- Shirley, MassachusettsShirley, Massachusetts-Demographics:This article describes the town of Shirley as a whole. Additional demographic detail is available which describes only the central settlement or village within the town, although that detail is included in the aggregate values reported here...
- Shirley (MBTA station)Shirley (MBTA station)Shirley is a passenger rail station on MBTA Commuter Rail's Fitchburg Line. The station is located at Ayer Road and Phoenix Street in Shirley, Massachusetts. There is a small parking area adjacent to the street. There is one small platform that is only about 10 feet long on the inbound side with an...
- Shirley (MBTA station)
- Shirley, New YorkShirley, New YorkShirley is a hamlet in Suffolk County, New York, United States. As of the 2000 census, Shirley population was 26,395....
- Shirley, Erie County, New YorkShirley, Erie County, New YorkShirley, New York is a small, unincorporated hamlet in the town of North Collins in southern Erie County, New York, USA.-References:...
- Shirley, VirginiaShirley, VirginiaShirley is an unincorporated community in Charles City County, Virginia, United States.-References:*...
- Shirley PlantationShirley PlantationShirley Plantation is an estate located on the north bank of the James River in Charles City County, Virginia. It is located on State Route 5, a scenic byway which runs between the independent cities of Richmond and Williamsburg...
, Virginia - Shirley, WisconsinShirley, WisconsinShirley is an unincorporated community, in the town of Glemore, in Brown County, Wisconsin, United States. It is located on Wisconsin Highway 96.-Notes:...
New Zealand
- Shirley, New ZealandShirley, New ZealandShirley, sometimes referred to as Windsor, is a suburb of Christchurch, New Zealand, about north-east of the city centre.-Naming:Susannah Buxton was married to John Buxton . On her deathbed in 1868, she asked her son, Joseph Shirley Buxton , to gift land to the Methodists to build a church...
, a suburb of Christchurch
Canada
- Shirleys Bay in the Ottawa River, Ontario
Other uses
- Shirley (novel)Shirley (novel)Shirley is an 1849 social novel by the English novelist Charlotte Brontë. It was Brontë's second published novel after Jane Eyre . The novel is set in Yorkshire in the period 1811–12, during the industrial depression resulting from the Napoleonic Wars and the War of 1812...
, an 1849 novel by Charlotte Brontë - Shirley (album)Shirley (album)Shirley was Shirley Bassey's fourth studio album, her second for Columbia, and was recorded with Geoff Love and his orchestra. It was her first album to enter the top ten of the UK Albums Chart, a feat she would not duplicate until Something in 1970....
, a 1961 album by Shirley Bassey - Shirley (TV Series), a 1979 TV Series starring Shirley JonesShirley JonesShirley Mae Jones is an American singer and actress of stage, film and television. In her six decades of television, she starred as wholesome characters in a number of well-known musical films, such as Oklahoma! , Carousel , and The Music Man...
and Rosanna Arquette - Shirley & CompanyShirley & CompanyShirley & Company was an American disco group, consisting of Shirley Goodman , Jesus Alvarez, Walter Morris, Bernadette Randle, Seldon Powell, Jonathan Williams and Clarence Oliver....
, a 1970s disco group - Shirley's WorldShirley's WorldShirley's World was a television series aired first by American Broadcasting Company during the U.S. 1971-72 television season. The sitcom was co-produced by the British ATV Network and American producer Sheldon Leonard; it starred Shirley MacLaine as a photojournalist and John Gregson as her...
, a 1971 sitcom - Shirley InstituteShirley InstituteThe Shirley Institute was established in 1920 as the British Cotton Industry Research Association at The Towers in Didsbury, Manchester as a research centre dedicated to cotton production technologies...
, a cotton and textile research centre in Manchester