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Coalville is a town in North West Leicestershire, England, with a population of about 30,000. It is just off junction 22 of the M1 motorway and is between Ashby-de-la-Zouch and Leicester. Coalville is the administrative centre for North-West Leicestershire District Council. Image File history File links Dot4gb. ...
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North West Leicestershire is a local government district in Leicestershire, England. ...
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The M1 motorway heading south towards junction 37 at Barnsley, South Yorkshire. ...
Market Street Ashby-de-la-Zouch Ashby-de-la-Zouch (formerly also Ashby-de-la-Zouche) is a small market town in the North West Leicestershire district of the county of Leicestershire, England. ...
Leicester city centre, looking towards the Clock Tower Leicester (pronounced ) is the largest city and unitary authority in the English East Midlands. ...
History As the name indicates, Coalville is a former coal-mining town. Coal has been mined in the area since medieval times and mine workings from these times can be found on the Hough Mill site at Swannington near the Califat Colliery site. A lifesized horse gin has been built on the Hough Mill site and craters can be seen in the ground, where the medieval villagers dug out their allocation of coal. The seam is at ground level in Swannington, but gradually gets deeper between Swannington and the deepest reserves at Bagworth, so consequentially, it was not until mining technology advanced that shafts were sunk in Coalville. A disused colliery at Snibston has been regenerated into Snibston Discovery Park, a museum focused on transport, mining, and engineering. Coal Coal (IPA: ) is a fossil fuel formed in swamp ecosystems where plant remains were saved by water and mud from oxidization and biodegradation. ...
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The town grew up with the advent of coal mining and the sinking of shafts on the Snibston site by George Stephenson. Quarrying, textile and engineering industries, such as railway wagon production, grew in the town in the 19th century. George Stephenson George Stephenson For the British politician, see George Stevenson. ...
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The Leicester and Swannington Railway opened in 1832 and had a small station at Long Lane (now Ashby Road) in Coalville - the first street in the town, which still has some of the original miners' cottages, which are next to the modern police station and opposite the sorting office. Snibston colliery opened in 1833. The Leicester and Swannington Railway (L&S) was one of Englands first railways, being opened in July 1832 to bring coal from pits in west Leicestershire to Leicester. ...
Th railway was extended to Burton upon Trent in 1845, placing Coalville on an important route between Burton and Leicester. Heavy coal traffic encouraged the construction of further railways linking Coalville to Nuneaton and Shepshed. Map sources for Burton-upon-Trent at grid reference SK2422 Burton upon Trent also known as Burton-on-Trent, or simply Burton, is a large town straddling the River Trent in the east of Staffordshire, England, which originally grew up around the monastery of St. ...
Leicester city centre, looking towards the Clock Tower Leicester (pronounced ) is the largest city and unitary authority in the English East Midlands. ...
Nuneaton is the largest town in the English county of Warwickshire, and the borough of Nuneaton and Bedworth. ...
Shepshed, often known until 1888 as Sheepshed, (also Sheepshead) is a town in Leicestershire, England with a population of around 13,000 people. ...
A fire underground at Whitwick colliery (now under the Morrisons supermarket) led to the deaths of 35 men in 1898. Whitwick (pronounced Wittick) is a village in Leicestershire, England. ...
In the 20th century the railways to Nuneaton and Shepshed were closed and dismantled. Passenger services were withdrawn from the Leicester - Burton line, but it remains open for freight traffic. Nuneaton is the largest town in the English county of Warwickshire, and the borough of Nuneaton and Bedworth. ...
Shepshed, often known until 1888 as Sheepshed, (also Sheepshead) is a town in Leicestershire, England with a population of around 13,000 people. ...
Following the closure of the mines and the Palitoy factory in the 1980s, the town fell on hard times. Effort was put into regeneration and the Whitwick Business park now stands on top of the former Whitwick Colliery site. New business parks and industrial estates were constructed along the A511.
After 1993 there was an abortive plan to restore passenger trains on the Leicester-Burton line through Coalville as an extension of Leicestershire's Ivanhoe Line. Leicestershire ( IPA: (RP), IPA: (locally)), abbreviation Leics. ...
The Ivanhoe Line is the name given to local passenger services operated on the Midland Main Line between Leicester and Loughborough. ...
Dialect Despite the mines being closed for some time, the old South Derbyshire dialect of the miners remains present in the local Coalville community. To those outside of Coalville, this local dialect often seems like another language and is in stark contrast to the remainder of Leicestershire accents. The use of the term 'duck' is made with endearment, often asking: "How are you mi duck?" and "A-up mi duck"
Words such as ee, found in short words is pronounced as two syllables, for example feet being ['fijəʔ], sounding like "fee-yut" (and also in this case ending with a glottal stop).
The Coalville dialect shares many features with Yorkshire, such as the open a sound in "car" and "park" but different in the replacement of take and make with tek and mek.
Like the Leicester dialect, words with short vowels such as up and last have a northern pronunciation, whereas words with vowels such as down and road sound rather more like a south-eastern accent. The vowel sound at the end of words like border "borda" (and the name of the city) "leicesta" is also a distinctive feature.
Transport Coalville is on the A511 trunk road between Leicester and Burton upon Trent. The A511 road is a 21 mile stretch of mainly single-carriageway road which runs northwest from junction 23 of the M1 motorway in Leicestershire, England to join the A50 between Uttoxeter and Derby. ...
The nearest passenger railway station is Loughborough, about eight miles east of Coalville.
Coalville also has good transport links to towns near by, the 159 bus takes passengers from Hinckley to Coalville, and also to smaller villages along the way. This takes approx. 1 hour.
Features of interest The town has its own Further Education (F.E.) College, Stephenson College, which operates approximately 800 different courses in both academic and vocational subjects. The college has recently relocated from old mining college buildings in the centre of town to new buildings on the A511 near the Jolly Collier public house. Further education (often abbreviated FE) is post-secondary, post-compulsory education (in addition to that received at secondary school). ...
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Vocational education prepares learners for certain careers or professions, which are traditionally non-academic and directly related to a trade, occupation or vocation in which the learner participates. ...
A well known landmark at the centre of the town is the Clock Tower, a war memorial in memory of Coalville residents who gave their lives in World War I and World War II. This memorial in England lists the names of soldiers who died in the First World War. ...
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Combatants Allied powers: China France Great Britain Soviet Union United States and others Axis powers: Germany Italy Japan and others Commanders Chiang Kai-shek Charles de Gaulle Winston Churchill Joseph Stalin Franklin Roosevelt Adolf Hitler Benito Mussolini Hideki TÅjÅ Casualties Military dead: 17,000,000 Civilian dead: 33,000...
A section of the Nuneaton - Coalville railway at nearby Shackerstone, seven miles south of Coalville, has been restored and reopened as a heritage railway called the Battlefield Line. Nuneaton is the largest town in the English county of Warwickshire, and the borough of Nuneaton and Bedworth. ...
Shackerstone is a village and civil parish in the Hinckley and Bosworth district of Leicestershire, England. ...
A scene on a heritage railway. ...
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The town is known internationally for the club night 'passion' held at the Emporium in the centre of the town. Passion has attracted international DJs such as DJ Tiesto, Paul Oakenfold, Allastair Dodds and Paul Van Dyk. ...
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This article is about the DJ. For the American historian, see Paul Van Dyke. ...
External links Coalville's parish church, Christ Church on London Road was built between 1836 and 1838. The church houses a brass memorial plaque to the victms of the Whitwick Colliery Disaster and the gravestone of James Stephenson and Kelly Townsend. The British national grid reference system is a system of geographic grid references commonly used in Great Britain, different from using latitude or longitude. ...
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