COALVILLE  , a

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