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Shirley 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 larger suburban houses concentrated in Upper Shirley. Shirley is separated from Highfield by Southampton Common, a large green park-like area which sees many dog-walkers, joggers. It is part of the Southampton Test constituency, with Alan Whitehead as Member of Parliament. ==History== The place-name "Shirley" means 'bright glade', from the Old English ''scir'' (bright) and ''leah'' (cleared land in a wood). Local belief today suggests it was meant as a ' bright clearing in the woods', and later referenced to 'a place of hope' for those who settled there. Shirley is recorded as a manor with a mill in the Domesday book, 1086. Shirley Mill originally stood to the east of the present Romsey Road/Winchester Road junction, at the confluence of the Hollybrook and Tanner's Brook streams. Shirley Mill had three large ponds, to the north of Winchester Road. Only one of those three mill ponds remains today, accessible by following the Lordswood Greenway. In 1887, The South of England Bread and Biscuit Company opened a works at Shirley Mill. In the nineteenth century an iron works was built, which was converted into a brewery in 1880 and subsequently into a laundry at the beginning of the 20th century. The laundry was owned by Royal Mail and used to service the mail ships visiting Southampton. The outflow from the mill was crossed by a ford on the Romsey Road. The stream is culverted under the major traffic junction which stands there, and continues to the Test to the east of modern Tebourba Way, open in parts and culverted in others. A further Mill was also constructed at what is now the Junction of Oakley Road and Tebourba Way. This site was later a paint factory known as Atlantic Works and mill buildings survive in commercial use on both sides of Oakley road astride the old mill leat. The district grew rapidly in the 1830s following the enclosure of Shirley Common (not to be confused with Southampton Common) under an Act of Parliament passed in May 1829. For example, the Hampshire Chronicle announced on Monday 12 April 1830 that "Several elegant villas are about to be erected on Shirley Common" and the Commissioner announced in 1831 that he was ready to present his decisions. The parish church was built in 1836. The council estate was built in the 1960s to replace relatively dense terraced housing. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Shirley, Southampton」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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