Shirebrook is a Town in the county of Derbyshire.

Retail in Shirebrook

There are great places to visit near Shirebrook including some great ancient sites, historic monuments, towns, caves, old mines, mountains, hiking areas, lakes, hills, ruins, rivers and streams, waterfalls, historic buildings, cities and shopping centres.

Arbor Low Henge, Gib Hill Oval Barrow and Bowl Barrow, and Carl Wark Hillfort are great places to visit near Shirebrook if you like ancient sites.

Places near Shirebrook feature a number of interesting historic monuments including Arbor Low Henge.

Towns to visit near Shirebrook include Castleton, Buxton, Darley Dale, and Hope.

Caves to visit near Shirebrook include Blue John Cavern.

There are a several good old mines in the area around Shirebrook like Blue John Cavern.

Kinder Scout is a great place to visit close to Shirebrook if you like mountains.

There are a several good hiking areas in the Shirebrook area like Kinder Scout, Errwood Hall (ruin), Three Shires Head, and Hope Valley.

The area around Shirebrook's best lakes can be found at Errwood Reservoir.

There are a several good hills in the Shirebrook area like Shining Tor, and Higger Tor.

Shirebrook has some unmissable ruins nearby like Errwood Hall (ruin), and Castedge (ruin).

Rivers and Streams to visit near Shirebrook include River Dane at Three Shires Head, and Panniers Pool.

Panniers Pool Waterfall, and Three Shires Head Waterfall are some of Shirebrook best waterfalls to visit near Shirebrook.

There are a several good historic buildings in the Shirebrook area like Solomon's Temple, and St Mary's Church Derby.

There are a several good cities in the area around Shirebrook like Derby.

There are a number of shopping centres near to Shirebrook including Derbion.

Shirebrook History

There are some historic monuments around Shirebrook:

• Bolsover Castle: eleventh century motte and bailey castle, twelfth century tower keep castle and seventeenth century country house.
• Skegby Manor House, immediately south east of Pond Cottage
• Pinxton Castle motte and fortified manor with moated site and five fishponds
• Cuckney motte and bailey castle
• Pleasley Colliery
• Langwith Cave
• Hardwick Old Hall: an Elizabethan great house
• Four watchtowers SW of town
• Roman villa ESE of Northfield House
• Bowl barrow, 240m SSE of Woodend Farm
• Standing cross
• Markland Grips promontory fort
• Palaeolithic and later prehistoric sites at Creswell Gorge including Pinhole Cave, Mother Grundy's Parlour and Robin Hood's Cave
• Medieval town defences, 183m south east of church of St Mary and St Lawrence, and 335m north east of Bolsover Castle
• King's Mill viaduct
• Standing cross, Clowne
• Worksop Castle: eleventh century motte castle and twelfth century shell keep castle
• Beeston Lodge
• Ash Tree Cave
• Palaeolithic and later prehistoric sites at Creswell Gorge, including Boat House Cave and Church Hole Cave
• Standing cross on Church Street, Mansfield Woodhouse
• Mound on Hamilton Hill