Shipley is a village in the south-east of Derbyshire in the East Midlands of England.

[1] Shipley is first mentioned in the Domesday Book of 1086, in the form Scipelei.

The name apparently derives from the Old English scēap ('sheep') and lēah ('open ground, such as meadow, pasture, or arable land').

[2] Shipley separates the Ilkeston and Heanor urban areas, which are linked by the main A6007 road.

It also incorporates most of the Shipley Country Park and the hamlet known as 'The Field' which is usually seen as the centre of the civil parish, with the Anglican Parish Church being at Cotmanhay, to the north of Ilkeston.