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COALVILLE

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Originally appearing in Volume V06, Page 599 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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COALVILLE , a See also:

town in the See also:Loughborough See also:parliamentary See also:division of See also:Leicestershire, See also:England, 112 M. N.N.W. from See also:London. Pop. of See also:urban See also:district (19o1) 15,281. It is served by the Midland railway, and there is also a station (Coalville See also:East) on the See also:Nuneaton-Loughborough See also:branch of the London & See also:North-Western railway. 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 See also:iron foundries and See also:brick-See also:works. A mile north, of Coalville is Whitwick, with remains of a See also:castle of See also:Norman date, while to the north again are slight remains of the nunnery of Gracedieu, founded in 1240, where, after its See also: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 See also: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. See also:Pugin in 1844.

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