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Shardlow Heritage Centre

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Shardlow Heritage Centre
Shardlow Heritage Centre
Shardlow Heritage Centre
Shardlow Heritage Centre
Shardlow Heritage Centre
Shardlow Heritage Centre
Shardlow Heritage Centre
Shardlow Heritage Centre
Shardlow Heritage Centre
Shardlow Heritage Centre
Shardlow Heritage Centre
Shardlow Heritage Centre
Shardlow Heritage Centre
Shardlow Heritage Centre
Shardlow Heritage Centre
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The Wharf, Shardlow, Derby DE72 2GA, England

Shardlow is a village in Derbyshire, England about 6 miles southeast of Derby and 11 miles southwest of Nottingham. Part of the civil parish of Shardlow and Great Wilne, and the district of South Derbyshire, it is also very close to the border with Leicestershire, defined by route of the River Trent which passes close to the south. Just across the Trent is the Castle Donington parish of North West Leicestershire. An important late 18th century river port for the trans-shipment of goods to and from the River Trent to the Trent and Mersey Canal, during its heyday from the 1770s to the 1840s it became referred to as Rural Rotterdam and Little Liverpool. Today Shardlow is considered Britain's most complete surviving example of a canal village, with over 50 Grade II listed buildings and a large number of surviving public houses within the designated Shardlow Wharf Conservation Area.
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