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Shirley, Southampton history
Shirley is recorded as a manor with a mill in the Domesday Book. The place-name Shirley commonly means “bright clearing”, from the Old English very similarly pronounced scir (bright) and leah (cleared land in a wood) In 1228, Nicholas de Sirlie, lord of Shirley, surrendered rights to Southampton Common in return for a small payment and the agreement that the Burgesses of Southampton had no rights of common over the land that would later become Shirley Common. Shirley Mill had three large ponds, to the north of Winchester Road.
Shirley and Freemantle Local Board of Health
Shirley and Freemantle Urban District Council was formed on 2 January 1895. It was abolished on 8 November 1895 when the district became a suburb of Southampton. The Board originally met in Church Street but moved to Ravenswood in July 1885. It later became the headquarters of the Seventh-day Adventist Church.
Transport
In the late 1800s the Didcot, Newbury and Southampton Railway planned to build a railway through Shirley, to a new station near Southampton’s Royal Pier. In the event the line was only built as far as Winchester Chesil Station. A story grew up that St James’ Park, Southampton, in Shirley was to have been a local railway station on this route.
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