52°44′39.93″N 1°24′36.48″W / 52.7444250°N 1.4101333°W
Coleorton Wood is a woodland in the village of Coleorton, near Coalville in northwest Leicestershire, England. It is a six-hectare (15-acre) mixed woodland that was planted during the early days of the National Forest. The site was formerly Coleorton Pit, or colliery,[1] which opened in 1875, and closed in the 1930s. It gained the local nickname of 'Bug and Wink' colliery.[2][3]
Coleorton Wood is on the route of the Mining Heritage Trail,[2][4] which is a nine-mile (14 km) walk tracing the coal mining history of this part of Leicestershire.
References
edit- ^ "Coleorton Wood". Leicestershire County Council.
- ^ a b "Mining Heritage Trail" (PDF). Leicestershire County Council.
- ^ Haywood J. "Coleorton Wood". Geograph.org.
- ^ "Coleorton Wood | National Forest". www.nationalforest.org. Retrieved 2022-10-12.
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