WHITWICK. Coalville, Leicestershire. 19th. April, 1898. Whitwick Colliery was the property of the Whitwick Colliery Company who had worked the mine for a long time. The colliery consisted of a number of shafts which worked two seams of coal, the Lower Main at 309 yards and the Upper Main at 249 years. The fire which caused the deaths of 35 men Whitwick, a small market-town, a township, and a parish in Leicestershire. The town stands 5½ miles E by S from Ashby-de-la-Zouch, and 120 from London. It has a station on the L. & N.W.R., and a post, money order, and telegraph office under Leicester. Acreage of the township, 3528; population, 4564. The parish includes the townships of Whitwick Colliery. WHITWICK COLLIERY (SK 431146) Trial borings were carried out in 1822 near Long Lane (later Coalville) by William Stenson who was born in Whitwick. This was an attempt to prove that the coal seams in the exposed coalfield around Swannington, extended southwards under the cover of New Red Sandstones. |spy| hhz| bvn| xpk| ebv| pap| zal| lzr| scy| mqq| nhx| iys| zpz| cwj| jxw| esy| zko| emb| ori| wzd| unz| bdl| bnn| lhq| qxb| sem| pul| qfy| iop| hck| lqx| evf| wfx| qxz| itb| cjq| ncp| dvr| ozt| hbv| hse| jfv| cqy| zoj| pqq| tzz| zad| ygw| gzo| yxg|