74-738: The Ashby Woulds Heritage Trail is a footpath and cycleway along what was formerly the Ashby and Nuneaton railway line between Spring Cottage and Measham , Leicestershire, England, a distance of some 6 km (3.7 mi). There are links to Donisthorpe woodland park , Moira Furnace and Conkers, the main visitor centre for The National Forest , in which the trail now lies. There are stone-surfaced paths suitable for cyclists, pedestrians and horse riders. 52°44′0.06″N 1°32′41.13″W / 52.7333500°N 1.5447583°W / 52.7333500; -1.5447583 Ashby and Nuneaton Joint Railway The Ashby and Nuneaton Joint Railway
148-628: A Burton-based brewery and process engineering company established in 1732 by Samuel Briggs. Famous for its manufacturing innovation and craftsmanship across the world, Briggs moved from its works in New Street to Derby Street having taken over its rival Robert Morton DG in 1988. The former site is now occupied by the Octagon Shopping Centre. Established in 1740, Thornewill and Warham was a metal hardware and industrial metalwork manufacturer, later an engineering company that became
222-636: A connection from Stoke Golding to the Trent Valley line of the LNWR north of Nuneaton, and another short connection to the Midland Railway at Nuneaton Abbey Junction. The following year, on 25 June 1868, the MR and LNWR Ashby & Nuneaton Joint Railway Act was ratified and certain deviations were authorised. Bad weather and labour problems delayed the completion of the work, and it was estimated that
296-645: A growth in native breweries, supplemented by outside brewing companies moving into the town, so that over 30 breweries were recorded in 1880. However at the beginning of the 20th century there was a slump in beer sales, causing many breweries to fail; the industry suffered from the Liberal government 's anti-drinking attitudes. This time no new markets were found and so the number of breweries shrank by closure and consolidation from 20 in 1900 to 8 in 1928. After further mergers and buy-outs, just three main breweries remained by 1980: Bass , Ind Coope and Marston's . Burton
370-460: A hundred red brick bridges were required to carry country lanes, or as occupation crossings where property had been severed. The line opened on 18 August 1873 for goods trains, and on 1 September 1873 for all trains. There had been a celebratory opening ceremony on 16 August 1873. Passenger operation on the Shackerstone to Coalville section started on 1 September 1873. The main traffic of
444-566: A non-county borough within Staffordshire, but this was not implemented. Under the Local Government Act 1972 , the town became on 1 April 1974, an unparished area in the new district of East Staffordshire . The town became entirely parished on 1 April 2003, when the parishes of Anglesey , Brizlincote , Burton , Horninglow and Eton , Shobnall , Stapenhill , and Winshill were created. Burton parish itself only covers
518-530: A notable producer of steam engines and railway locomotives. It also constructed two footbridges across the River Trent in Burton. It too was acquired by S. Briggs & Co, in 1929. A market has been held on Thursdays in Burton since a charter was granted to the abbot by King John on 12 April 1200. Burton today has an indoor and an outdoor market, which are owned by East Staffordshire Borough Council. In 2011
592-522: A number of parish councils covering different parts of the urban area. There is a parish called Burton which just covers the central part of the town. Burton is the administrative centre for the borough of East Staffordshire and forms part of the Burton and Uttoxeter constituency . The local Member of Parliament (MP) is the Labour Party 's Jacob Collier , who has represented the constituency since
666-620: A number of well known rock bands appeared at the 76 Club nightclub in Burton, including Dire Straits and the Sex Pistols . Bloodstock Open Air is an annual festival of heavy metal music , which takes place in August and has been held at Catton Hall in Walton-on-Trent , 8 miles south-west of Burton since 2005. Burton Operatic Society is a musical theatre company based in Burton and produces two productions each year. The town
740-418: A significant number of warehouses based in Burton (and nearby Fradley Park ). Notable businesses with distribution centres and warehouses include B&Q , Boots , Hobbycraft , Holland & Barrett , DHL , Waterstones , Clipper and Amazon . The main venue for live theatre and other performing and visual arts is The Brewhouse , which is run by East Staffordshire Council. During the 1970s and 1980s
814-462: A slip coach from Euston, slipped at Nuneaton via the Ashby & Nuneaton line, and continuing to Buxton. A return working was attached to a main line train at Rugby. The passenger service had never been buoyant financially, and it was discontinued from 13 April 1931. Nevertheless, after passenger closure the line continued to be busy with through freight traffic. Seventeen daily freight trains traversed
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#1732787220712888-429: Is about 50 metres above sea level; the village of Winshill and the suburb of Stapenhill rise to 130 m and 100 m respectively. Burton became a centre for the brewing industry due in part to the quality of the local water, which contains a high proportion of dissolved salts, predominantly caused by the gypsum in the surrounding hills. This allowed a greater proportion of hops, a natural preservative, to be included in
962-518: Is at the easternmost border of the county of Staffordshire with Derbyshire, its suburbs and the course of the River Trent forming part of the county boundary. It is also near the south-eastern terminus of the Trent and Mersey Canal . Burton lies within the northern boundary of the National Forest . The town centre is on the western bank of the River Trent in a valley bottom; its average elevation
1036-584: Is based in Bridge Street, with six pubs in and around Burton. It produces a number of traditional beers including Bridge Bitter, Stairway to Heaven, Damson Porter and Golden Delicious. Tower Brewery is a microbrewery off Wharf Road. Old Cottage Brewery is based in Hawkins Lane. Its beers include Oak Ale and Halcyon Daze. Black Hole Brewery is based at the Imex Centre. Gates Brewery microbrewery
1110-661: Is in Reservoir Road. Burton is also the corporate headquarters of the pub operators Punch Taverns plc and Spirit Pub Company which was brought by Greene King so doesn't have a headquarters there anymore, which were spun out of Bass in 1997. In addition, the White Shield microbrewery remains open alongside the National Brewery Centre (formerly the Bass Museum of Brewing). A by-product of
1184-578: Is still an important part of its economy. The town is currently home to eight breweries; Coors Brewers Ltd : formerly Bass Brewers Ltd, and now the UK arm of Molson Coors Brewing Company – which produces Carling and Worthington Bitter ; Marston's , Thompson and Evershed plc, bought by Wolverhampton & Dudley Breweries now renamed Marstons plc . The Marston's Brewery produces its own brands, draught Marston's Pedigree, draught Hobgoblin and also draught Bass under licence from InBev . Burton Bridge Brewery
1258-488: Is the principal shopping area, opened in 1970 by the Princess Alexandra but since considerably upgraded with a roof being added in the mid-1990s. The older Riverside Shopping Centre (known as Bargates) is now demolished. An additional shopping centre is The Octagon Shopping Centre on New Street, constructed in the mid-1980s. There is another, much smaller shopping centre, Burton Place Shopping Centre , which
1332-409: The 2001 Census . Stapenhill and Winshill were treated separately and together had a further population of 21,985 according to this source. According to the 2001 census, In the 2021 Census, the population of Burton was recorded at 76,270. The town's ethnicity composition was recorded at: The town's religious composition was recorded at: For centuries brewing was Burton's major trade, and it
1406-532: The 2024 general election , winning the seat from Kate Kniveton of the Conservative Party . Burton upon Trent was an ancient parish , which historically straddled the boundary between Staffordshire and Derbyshire . The parish was divided into five townships , being Winshill in Derbyshire, and Branston , Horninglow , Stretton and a Burton upon Trent township (covering the central part of
1480-572: The Charnwood Forest Canal of the Leicester Navigation Company were constructed locally. The first proposal for a railway through the district came in 1844. An independent company proposed the construction of a Rugby , Derby and Manchester line, to be capitalised at £1.5 million, which would have passed through Hinckley , Market Bosworth and Ashby-de-la-Zouch. At this early date the Midland Railway
1554-553: The ITV Central (West) region, again based in Birmingham. The suburbs of Winshill, Brizlincote and Stapenhill to the southeast of the town lie along a green-belt area, in place to stop uncontrolled development which could cause Burton to, in time, merge with neighbouring Swadlincote . The majority of this green belt lies in Derbyshire, with small tracts within Staffordshire. The town had an estimated population of 43,784 in
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#17327872207121628-460: The Local Government Act 1894 said that parishes could no longer straddle borough boundaries, and so the parts of Stapenhill parish outside the borough were transferred to the neighbouring parishes of Bretby and Drakelow , the rural parts of Winshill went to Newton Solney , the rural part of Horninglow became a new parish called Outwoods and the parts of Branston inside the borough were transferred to Burton Extra. The five urban parishes inside
1702-521: The Manor House and the former Infirmary . The Infirmary became known as The Abbey and is now an inn. The Paget family's lands and title were restored to them by James I in 1604 and they owned considerable estates around Burton for over 150 years. In 1699, William Lord Paget obtained an Act of Parliament to extend navigation on the River Trent from Nottingham up to Burton, but nothing
1776-625: The Elms , Ca(u)ldwell (in Stapenhill Parish) and Ticknall , all then in Derbyshire . The monastery was the most important in Staffordshire and by the 1530s had the highest revenue. It is known that there were frequent Royal visits to the abbey, including those by William I , Henry II and Edward I . In the 12th and 13th centuries, streets were laid out off the west side of High Street, the earliest being New Street, which stretched from
1850-562: The Joint Line was coal trains taking the mineral from the Moira and Coalville districts to London; typically ten mineral trains daily were reported to be running in 1932. Passenger traffic consisted of five down and six up trains between Nuneaton and Ashby, but in July 1890 the number of trains was nearly doubled, when a through service from Burton to Nuneaton was started. By 1892 this service
1924-430: The LNWR, a distance of 18 miles on a north-west to south axis. In addition, there would be a four mile line from Stoke Golding south-westwards to Nuneaton LNWR station, and a spur at Nuneaton to the Midland Railway station. There would be a six-mile north-eastwards line from Shackerstone to Coalville, and a short spur near Moira forming a triangular junction. This amounted to 29 miles of railway, and authorised share capital
1998-565: The London and North Western Railway put forward a scheme for a similar line, and the Midland Railway once again tried to fend it off with the Midland Railway (Ashby & Nuneaton) Act of 6 August 1866. As planned at the time, the main section of the line was to be a double track route from Ashby, on the Midland line between Burton and Leicester, and Hinckley on the Nuneaton to Leicester line of
2072-518: The Town Hall. Eatough's (sometimes Etough's) was a shoemaking firm from Leicestershire that opened a factory in Burton Road, Branston in 1920. It was the first British shoe factory to introduce music in the workplace (1936), and washable children's sandals ('Plastisha' 1957), but it closed in 1989 as a result of competition from cheap imports. Briggs of Burton (formerly S. Briggs & Co.) is
2146-604: The Trent was in poor repair by the early 16th century, it served as "a comen passage to and fro many countries to the grett releff and comfort of travellyng people", according to the abbot . The bridge was the site of two battles, first in 1322 when Edward II defeated the rebel Earl of Lancaster and also in 1643 when the Royalists captured the town during the First English Civil War . Under Henry VIII
2220-672: The abbey gates towards the line of Ryknild Street . Horninglow Street at the north end of High Street was part of a major east–west route using the bridge over the river. A royal charter was granted on 12 April 1200 by King John to the Abbot to hold a market in Burton every Thursday. This charter was later renewed by King Henry III and King Edward IV . There were four annual fairs for trade in horses, cattle and produce: on Candlemas Day , 5 April, Holy Thursday , and 29 October (the feast of St Modwen) although as in other British towns this practice has died out. While Burton's great bridge over
2294-459: The abbey was dissolved in 1539, to be refounded in 1541 as a collegiate church for a dean (who had been the last abbot) and four prebendaries . It was again dissolved in 1545 and granted to Sir William Paget . Paget began planning to expand the Manor House within the abbey precincts, known to have existed since at least 1514, into a grand mansion. To provide the materials for this project,
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2368-633: The area in the early 12th century. In 1003 a Benedictine abbey was established on a new site on the west bank of the Trent at Burton by Wulfric Spott , a thegn . He is known to have been buried in the abbey cloister in 1010, alongside his wife. Burton Abbey was mentioned in the Domesday Book of 1086, where it was said to control lands in Appleby Magna in Leicestershire , and Mickleover , Winshill , Stapenhill , Coton in
2442-690: The beer, thereby allowing the beer to be shipped further afield. Much of the open land within and around the town is protected from chemical treatment to help preserve this water quality. There is some confusion as to whether Burton is in the West Midlands or the East Midlands , even though the entire urban centre is southwest of the River Dove , which forms the Derbyshire/Staffordshire boundary. Being in Staffordshire,
2516-403: The borough were then Burton upon Trent, Burton Extra, Horninglow, Stapenhill and Winshill, which were amalgamated into a single Burton upon Trent parish in 1904. In 1891 the council was given the former St Paul's Institute and Liberal Club on King Edward Place, which had been built in 1878. They substantially extended the building to serve as their headquarters, renaming it Town Hall . Burton
2590-498: The branch particularly at night, and express milk trains from Derbyshire were also operated for many years. The Hinckley line from Shackerstone Junction was completed as a double track route, but it was never used. Hinckley had been selected as the apparently obvious LNWR connection for the Joint Railway, but Nuneaton had many practical advantages, particularly as it was already a significant LNWR junction. It seems likely that
2664-508: The brewing industry is the Marmite factory in the town. The original Marmite factory (now demolished) was at the corner of Cross Street and Duke Street before they moved to the current factory on Wellington Road in the 1960s. The production of Marmite has in turn generated the production of Bovril . Both are owned by multinational company Unilever . Burton is also home to CAMRA 's National Breweriana Auction that takes place each October in
2738-464: The company would run its own trains from all the collieries in the Leicestershire coalfield. On 17 June 1867 the necessary Act was passed authorising the LNWR to work jointly with the MR to construct and maintain lines previously authorised to the Midland Railway. The LNWR was authorised to raise £200,000 as its share of the joint venture. Altered arrangements were necessary at Nuneaton, where
2812-528: The controversy of the LNWR's involvement and the negotiation of the joint status of the line caused the need for this section not to be questioned. Captain Tyler visited the line for the purpose of carrying out the Board of Trade inspection and found some deficiencies, at which point John Crossley, the engineer for the line, stated that the line would not be opened, and that it would be acceptable if Tyler omitted
2886-582: The cost of building the line had overrun by £67,438, to £349,715, "mostly due to the effect of heavy rain". Some of the route closely followed the Ashby canal, but whereas the latter twisted with the contours to maintain its level, numerous cuttings and embankments carried the railway in a more direct line. These caused considerable difficulty during construction as the contractors frequently encountered waterlogged sand and unstable clay which oozed out in sticky landslides. No spectacular engineering works proved necessary but in such an intensively farmed district nearly
2960-400: The council contracted out responsibility for market stall rentals to private letting agency Quarterbridge. The Market Hall was built in 1883 from designs by Dixon & Moxon of Barnsley and opens from Tuesday to Saturday. A fish market was added to the hall in 1925. The outdoor market is held every Thursday, Friday and Saturday from 8.30am until 4pm. The Coopers Square shopping centre
3034-517: The development of the trade of Burton India Pale Ale (an ale specially brewed to keep during the long sea voyage to India ). New rail links to Liverpool enabled brewers to export their beer throughout the British Empire . Burton came to dominate the brewing trade, and at its height one quarter of all beer sold in Britain was produced here. In the second half of the 19th century there was
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3108-402: The issue of approving it altogether. On 14 January 1875, local residents petitioned again for the line to be opened, but the company took legal opinion and were advised that there was no legal obligation actually to open it. The line was formally abandoned by an Act of Parliament in 1914. The Charnwood Forest Railway was authorised on 16 July 1874. It was an independent concern, and its purpose
3182-526: The large number of chain stores in the town centre. Since then events such as a French market have been organised to bring more footfall into the town centre. Media services include the Burton Mail , BBC Radio Derby , and Capital Mid-Counties . Due to Burton's relative location in the centre of England and its transport links which allow easy access to Birmingham (the second largest UK city), Derby, Nottingham, Leicester and other locations, there are
3256-520: The line between Shackerstone and Shenton has been re-opened as the Battlefield Line Railway , a heritage railway . Burton upon Trent Burton upon Trent , also known as Burton-on-Trent or simply Burton , is a market town in the borough of East Staffordshire in the county of Staffordshire , England, close to the border with Derbyshire . At the 2021 census , it had a population of 76,270. The demonym for residents of
3330-477: The line from then, right up until 1948. There were a number of fitted freight trains operating, some originating as far away as Accrington . Several used the Churnet Valley Railway to Stockport . After the ordinary passenger service ceased on both lines on 13 April 1931, excursions continued to run to Skegness until 1961. Freight traffic ceased from Shackestone to Hugglescote on 6 April 1964,
3404-485: The line. Ordinary freight services ceased on 7 October 1963, but the line from Coalville (Charnwood Forest Junction) was kept open as far as Shepshed for private siding traffic. However on 15 December 1963 the entire Charnwood Forest line was closed. Through passenger services on the Ashby Line started on 1 July 1890, running from Nuneaton, via Burton to Uttoxeter and Ashbourne. Other enhancements followed, including
3478-433: The now defunct South Staffordshire Line which linked it to Lichfield, Walsall , Dudley and Stourbridge . The name Burton upon Trent derives from the meaning "a settlement at a fortified place" along the River Trent and dates from the 8th century. According to the town's charter the official name of the town is Burton upon Trent. However, the form 'Burton-on-Trent' is used for the post town by Royal Mail and for
3552-404: The old abbey buildings were to be cannibalised. There were major alterations to the house over the next three centuries. Sir William died in 1563. In 1585 it was suggested that Mary, Queen of Scots might stay at Burton while Tutbury Castle was cleaned, but it was said that it was "a ruinous house, the buildings scattered and adjoining a very poor town, full of bad neighbours". The Paget family
3626-439: The parish) in Staffordshire. The rural parts of the Burton township became a separate township called Burton Extra in the sixteenth century. Such townships were all reclassified as civil parishes in 1866. Burton had been an ancient borough from the twelfth century, giving some degree of self-government for the town, but by the seventeenth century its borough corporation had ceased to operate and its borough status lapsed, with
3700-403: The receiver form 1885 to 1909, and never paid a dividend on ordinary shares throughout its existence. The proposal to extend at Loughborough to join the Midland Railway there was revived in 1908 but once again it was not proceeded with. After passenger closure in 1931, freight continued in the form of a pick-up goods that shunted in the various goods yards, sidings, quarries and collieries along
3774-446: The section from Measham to Market Bosworth being closed to all traffic on 12 November 1971, and Market Bosworth to Nuneaton on 19 July 1971. A short section at Hugglescote reopened about 1976 as part of the new rail link to Coalfield Farm open cast site loading point. This was currently in use in 1988. From Measham and Donisthorpe Colliery to Overseal (the northern end of the joint line) closed to all traffic on 20 June 1981. Part of
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#17327872207123848-439: The town being administered by the parish vestry and manorial courts instead. More urban forms of local government returned to the town in 1779 when a body of improvement commissioners was established, initially just covering the Burton township. Their district was extended in 1853 to take in parts of the townships of Burton Extra and Horninglow, and again in 1878 to take in the rest of Burton Extra, more of Horninglow (including
3922-422: The town centre, with the other parishes covering various suburbs. The urban area now also extends into the adjoining parishes of Branston, Outwoods and Stretton, which had all been outside the pre-1974 county borough. Burton is about 109 miles (175 km) north west of London , about 30 miles north east of Birmingham , the UK's second largest city and about 23 miles east of the county town Stafford . It
3996-475: The town during the First English Civil War . William Lord Paget and his descendants were responsible for extending the manor house within the abbey grounds and facilitating the extension of the River Trent Navigation to Burton. Burton grew into a busy market town by the early modern period. The town is served by Burton-on-Trent railway station . The town was also the start and terminus of
4070-489: The town is Burtonian . Burton is located on the River Trent 11 miles (18 km) south-west of Derby and 20 miles (32 km) south of the Peak District National Park . Burton is known for its brewing . The town grew up around Burton Abbey . Burton Bridge was also the site of two battles, in 1322 , when Edward II defeated the rebel Earl of Lancaster and in 1643 when royalists captured
4144-737: The town officially lies within the West Midlands region. Several factors contribute to the ambiguity of the town's status. The local vernacular shares more similarities with East Midlands English than West Midlands English ; the town was formerly within the East Midlands Utility (electricity/gas) areas and has Derby postcodes (DE13-DE15). However, it is served by the BBC Midlands (West Midlands) region based in Birmingham and before consolidation exercises formed part of
4218-508: The town's railway station . Rykneld Street , a Roman road, ran north-east through what later became the parish of Burton, linking settlements at Letocetum ( Wall ), near Lichfield and Derventio (Little Chester) near Derby . Between 666 and 669 Wilfrid , the pro-Roman bishop of York, exercised episcopal functions in Mercia , whose Christian king, Wulfhere , gave him land in various places, on which he established monasteries . Burton
4292-469: The village), parts of Branston and Winshill, and part of the neighbouring Derbyshire parish of Stapenhill . Later in 1878 the improvement commissioners' district was incorporated as a municipal borough called Burton upon Trent. When elected county councils were created in 1889 boroughs were no longer allowed to straddle county boundaries, and so the Derbyshire parts of the borough (Stapenhill and Winshill) were transferred to Staffordshire. Six years later
4366-601: Was a pre-grouping railway company in the English Midlands, built to serve the Leicestershire coalfield. Both the Midland Railway and the London and North Western Railway (LNWR) wished to build a line on similar alignments, and they agreed to build jointly. Construction began in 1869 and the railway was opened in 1873. It linked Moira (near Ashby-de-la-Zouch ) and Coalville with Nuneaton . Mineral traffic
4440-574: Was almost certainly one of the sites: the name Andresey given to an island in the river Trent near the parish church means "Andrew's isle" and refers to a church there dedicated to St Andrew . The island is associated with the legend of St Modwen or Modwenna, an Irish abbess. It is likely that any surviving religious house would have been destroyed during the Danish incursion into the area in 874. Place names indicate Scandinavian influence, and several personal names of Scandinavian origin were still used in
4514-541: Was also home to the Burton School of Speech and Drama on Guild Street where many professional and amateur actors and actresses learned their craft. Following the closure of the school in July 1984, its in-house amateur company, the Little Theatre Players, continued life as an independent amateur drama company called The Little Theatre Company. LTC currently stages at least four productions a year in
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#17327872207124588-412: Was being sold in 1712. A number of breweries opened in the second half of the 18th century. The Napoleonic blockade badly affected overseas trade, leading to some consolidation and a redirection of the trade to London and Lancashire via canals. When Burton brewers succeeded in replicating the pale ale produced in London, the advantage of the water's qualities, in a process named Burtonisation allowed
4662-548: Was built in 1986 and originally known as Worthington Walk. Also located in the town centre is Middleway Retail Park , which includes a Cineworld multiplex cinema, Mecca Bingo , Matalan and restaurants, including Bella Italia and Nando's . In 2005 a report by the New Economics Foundation rated Burton at 13.3 out of 60 for "individuality", putting it in the top ten clone towns in England, because of
4736-498: Was busy, and the line formed a useful link for through goods trains. Some long distance passenger operation took place over the line, but it was never successful in carrying passengers. The LNWR sponsored the Charnwood Forest Railway which branched off the Joint Railway near Coalville and ran to a terminus at Loughborough . The intention had been to connect to the Midland Railway main line there, but that attempt
4810-430: Was elevated to become a county borough in 1901, making it independent from Staffordshire County Council, having reached the 50,000 population required. It never substantially exceeded the population of 50,000, and with a population of 50,201 in the 1971 census it was the second smallest county borough in England after Canterbury . The Local Government Commission for England recommended in the 1960s that it be demoted to
4884-461: Was fiercely territorial, and having acquired the Leicester and Swannington Railway , it wished to protect the area it considered to be its own from incursion. It opposed the scheme by putting forward its own line from Ashby to Hinckley, taking over a canal which followed much the same route. The Midland Railway purchased the canal in 1846 but did not proceed with construction of the line. In 1865
4958-459: Was further enhanced to give through workings to Manchester via Leek and Macclesfield . When the LNWR route between Ashbourne and Parsley Hay opened in 1901, a new route from Buxton to Euston became available and two trains ran in each direction on weekdays. However all the through workings were discontinued during World War I . Through goods trains between Lancashire and Yorkshire and London used
5032-579: Was home to the Peel family, who played a significant role in the Industrial Revolution . The family home is still visible in the town as Peel House on Lichfield Street. Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II visited the town on 3 July 2002 during her Golden Jubilee celebrations. There are three tiers of local government covering Burton, at county , district and parish level: Staffordshire County Council , East Staffordshire Borough Council , and
5106-478: Was immediately done. In 1711 Lord Paget leased his rights to George Hayne , who in 1712 opened the River Trent Navigation and constructed a wharf and other buildings in the precinct of the old abbey. This led to the development of Burton as the major town for brewing and exporting beer , as it allowed Burton beer to be shipped to Hull , and on to the Baltic Sea and Prussia , as well as to London , where it
5180-535: Was implicated in Catholic plots against Queen Elizabeth I , the manor house along with most of the family estates were confiscated, with the Manor House leased to Richard Almond in 1612. Parts of the abbey church may have been retained for parish use, however these were demolished and replaced by a new church in 1719–1726. Some fragments remain of the chapter house nearby, but little of the rest remains. Two buildings were converted to residential use—a part known as
5254-617: Was refused. The passenger traffic on the Joint Railway and the CFR ceased in 1931, and the goods activity progressively ran down from 1964 onwards. The entire network is now closed to ordinary commercial railway operation, but a heritage railway operates near Market Bosworth. The area surrounding the town of Ashby-de-la-Zouch was an important mineral-rich district producing coal, clay and high-quality stone. Heavy minerals were expensive to transport to market by animal power, and when canals became available, costs reduced considerably. The Ashby Canal and
5328-613: Was taken into the London Midland and Scottish Railway on 14 July 1923. From the opening of the Charnwood Forest line, passenger trains on the Shackerstone-Coalville section of the joint line were worked by the LNWR, the motor trains working through to Loughborough. These ceased in 1931, and the whole Charnwood Forest line closed entirely in 1964. The Charnwood Forest company was in the hands of
5402-440: Was to be £350,000. The LNWR reacted with a Bill for the 1867 session of Parliament for a railway covering the same ground, but also going further to reach Burton , connecting several collieries on the way. Now the LNWR and the Midland Railway agreed to co-operate, and this resulted in agreement on a joint undertaking, to be called the Ashby and Nuneaton Joint Railway. The LNWR and Midland Railway would operate passenger trains, and
5476-485: Was to link the Ashby and Nuneaton Joint Railway at Coalville with the Midland Railway at Loughborough. The line was built from a junction near Coalville to its own Loughborough station, but the connection with the Midland line there was never made. The line was operated by the London and North Western Railway from its opening on 16 April 1883; the LNWR operated five passenger trains each way daily. The Charnwood Forest Company remained independent until Grouping in 1923, when it
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