| Shardlow | |
|---|---|
 Main wharf, Shardlow | |
  Shardlow Location within Derbyshire | |
| OS grid reference | SK437302 |
| Civil parish | |
| District | |
| Shire county | |
| Region | |
| Country | England |
| Sovereign state | United Kingdom |
| Post town | DERBY |
| Postcode district | DE72 |
| Police | Derbyshire |
| Fire | Derbyshire |
| Ambulance | East Midlands |
Shardlow is a village in Derbyshire, England about 6 miles (9.7 km) southeast of Derby and 11 miles (18 km) 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 the 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,[1] during its heyday from the 1770s to the 1840s it became referred to as "Rural Rotterdam" and "Little Liverpool".[2] Today Shardlow is considered Britain's most complete surviving example of a canal village,[2] with over 50 Grade II listed buildings and many surviving public houses within the designated Shardlow Wharf Conservation Area.[1][2]