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COALVILLE , a See also: town in the See also: Loughborough See also: parliamentary
division of See also: Leicestershire, See also: England, 112 M
.
N.N.W. from See also: London
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Pop. of See also: urban See also: district (19o1) 15,281
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It is served by the Midland railway, and there is also a station (Coalville See also: East) on the See also: Nuneaton-Loughborough branch of the London & See also: North-Western railway
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This is a town of See also: modern growth, a centre of the See also: coal-See also: mining district of north Leicestershire
.
There are also iron foundries and brick-See also: works
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A mile north, of Coalville is Whitwick, with remains of a See also: castle of Norman date, while to the north again are slight remains of the nunnery of Gracedieu, founded in 1240, where, after its dissolution, See also: Francis See also: Beaumont, the poet-colleague of See also: John
See also: Fletcher, was See also: born about 1586
.
In the neighbourhood is the Trappist abbey of See also: Mount St See also: Bernard, founded in 1835, possessing a large domain, with buildings
completed from the designs of A
.
W
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Pugin in 1844
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