Shottle


Shottle is a village roughly 3 miles south of the market town of Wirksworth, Derbyshire, England. The population of the civil parish at the 2011 Census was 266.
In Norman times, the manor of Shottle, referred to as "Sothille" in the Domesday Survey, belonged to the Ferrers family.
In 1086, the book notes that

"In Shottle and Wallstone Gamal had six of land to the. There is land for as many ploughs. There are now one ploughs in and three and three having one ploughs and five acres of meadow. Woodland pasture 3 and a half leagues by one and a half leagues.. Its main industry was, and remains, agriculture. Shottle Hall dates from 1841 and is a pleasant building in the late Georgian style, now used mainly for weddings and events.
Whilst some way out of the village itself, Shottle has its own railway station - called Shottle after which is nearby. The station, which is on the Wirksworth Branch, was closed in 1947 to passengers and the building is owned by Peak Oil Ltd. The railway line has been reopened to passengers as the Ecclesbourne Valley Railway.