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COALVILLE, a chapelry in Ibstock, Whitwick, and Packington parishes, Leicester; on the Burton and Leicester railway, 4¾ miles ESE of Ashby-de-la-Zouch. It has a post office‡ under Leicester and a r. station. Pop., 1, 540. Houses, 303. The living is a p. curacy in the diocese of Peterborough. Value, £134.* Patron, the Rev. T. W. Minton. The church is good; and there are four dissenting chapels, and two public schools.
(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))
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Feature Description: | "a chapelry" (ADL Feature Type: "countries, 4th order divisions") |
Administrative units: | Leicestershire AncC |
Place: | Coalville |
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