Shirley

B26 - Grid reference SP131848

Use the grid reference on the Ordnance Survey website - Get-a-map.

This is an alternative name or spelling for Shawley.

There is also a Shirley near Solihull, whose name probably derives from from Old English, scir leah, meaning 'bright clearing'.

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For 19th-century Ordnance Survey maps of Birmingham go to British History Online - Maps.