Shireoaks

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Shireoaks is a quiet former pit village between Worksop and Thorpe Salvin.

The village is a short distance from the main A57 between Sheffield and Worksop, has a railway station and the Chesterfield Canal and River Ryton both run through the village.

1 Facilities
2 Steetley Cricket Ground
3 Future
4 Trivia

[edit] Facilities

Current facilities include a newsagents, which is also the post office, a small shop, butchers, school, village hall, cafe and Miners Welfare, with bowling green and football pitch. The village currently had no pubs due to the closure of both the Hewitt Arms in Shireoaks park and the Station Hotel, which is now a house, during the past few years.

[edit] Steetley Cricket Ground

The cricket pitch along with its bowling green and tennis courts used to belong to the Steetley works in the village and was the home ground of their sporting teams. This is now under private ownership and the pavilion has been converted into a house; the new pavilion is a converted groundsman shed. There is no longer a cricket team from the village but other local teams have used the ground as their home ground in the past few years.

Over the years the ground has been used for many minor county cricket matches involving the second team of Nottinghamshire, and has played host to 2 first class matches, these were;

5th July 1961 County Championship 1961 Nottinghamshire v Sussex

7th July 1979 West Indies Women in England 1979 3rd ODI England Women v West Indies Women

which is quite impressive for a village of this size where the local team used to only attract a few dozen spectators. Total list of matches played: [1]

The ground has recently been used as a training ground for the Worksop Town Football Club Academy.

[edit] Future

Since the closure of Shireoaks colliery in the early 1990's there have been many plans for its uses. So far the majority of there have not come to anything, the only one being the construction of a marina at the former location of the barge loading area adjacent to the Chesterfield Canal. The area remains mostly undeveloped, but more than likely will be used for housing in the future

Due to the number of housing developments in the village and the rapid expansion of the area of Gateford in nearby Worksop, there is a concern that Shireoaks along with the neighbouring village of Rhodesia will soon become just a part of Worksop itself.