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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.
Heather (/ ˈ h iː ð ər / ⓘ HEE-dhər) is a village west of Ibstock in North West Leicestershire, England. The population of the civil parish was 949 at the 2001 census reducing to 920 at the 2011 census. [2] In the Domesday Book of 1086, its name is recorded as Hadre, meaning "the heathland". [3]
Ibstock plc is a manufacturer of clay bricks and concrete products with operations in the UK. It is listed on the London Stock Exchange and is a constituent of the FTSE 250 Index . History
Sence Valley Forest Park. Sence Valley Forest Park is located between Ibstock and Heather in North West Leicestershire, and within the National Forest, England.. It is situated on the site of a former open cast mine where, between 1982 and 1996, eight million tonnes of coal were extracted by opencast mining. [1]
Donington le Heath and Hugglescote and were part of the parish of Ibstock until 1878, when they were formed into a separate civil parish. In 1936 the parish was absorbed by the then urban district of Coalville. The civil parish of Hugglescote and Donington le Heath was reinstated by an order made in May 2010, and the new parish council held its ...
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.
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.
[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 ...