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Ibstock is a former coal mining town [2] [3] [4] and civil parish in North West Leicestershire, England. The population of the civil parish was 5,760 at the 2001 census increasing to 6,201 at the 2011 census [5] and 7,615 at the 2021 census. [6] The village is on the A447 road between Coalville and Hinckley. [7] [8]
The Great Britain Historical GIS (or GBHGIS) is a spatially enabled database that documents and visualises the changing human geography of the British Isles, [1] although is primarily focussed on the subdivisions of the United Kingdom mainly over the 200 years since the first census in 1801.
A clay pit owned by the company at Ibstock. The company was founded in 1899 at Ibstock in Leicestershire as a coal mining business. [2] It bought Redland's brick manufacturing business in 1996. [3] CRH bought a majority stake in the business in 1998 and the balance of the shares in October 2011. [4]
The Leicestershire and South Derbyshire Coalfield in the English Midlands is one of the smaller British coalfields. [1] The two areas are sometimes separately referred to as the South Derbyshire Coalfield and the Leicestershire Coalfield.
Battram is a hamlet forming part of the Ibstock civil parish in North West Leicestershire, England. Battram is named after Johnny Battram, who had the original cottage, but very much expanded with the coming of coal mining in the area. The village was in the shadow of Nailstone pit and not far from the Ellistown and Ibstock Collieries.
Ellistown is named after Colonel Joseph Joel Ellis of London, but its history predates him. From the 14th century it was in the hundred of Sparkenhoe and parish of Ibstock . Ecclesiastically the area was part of the Diocese of Peterborough from the English Reformation until 1926, when it became part of the new Diocese of Leicester .
The original (1922) route of the A447 was Wolvey to Tonge, via Hinckley, Ibstock and Coalville, but they were changes in the early years. Wolvey to Hinckley [ edit ]
[8] [9] [10] Following the Industrial Revolution, which started in England, Great Britain ruled a colonial Empire, the largest in recorded history. Following a process of decolonisation in the 20th century, mainly caused by the weakening of Great Britain's power in the two World Wars; almost all of the empire's overseas territories became ...