A pit village , colliery village or mining village is a settlement built by colliery owners to house their workers. The villages were built on the coalfields of Great Britain during the Industrial Revolution where new coal mines were developed in isolated or unpopulated areas. Such settlements were developed by companies for the incoming workers.
4-604: Hurlet (or The Hurlet ) is a former mining village in East Renfrewshire , Scotland . It is situated 2.5 kilometres northeast of Barrhead , near the boundaries of the council areas with Glasgow to the north and Renfrewshire to the west. The Hurlet like the neighbouring area Nitshill was abundant with coal . The area developed due to early 19th-century industrial advances, supplying coal and building stone to Glasgow. However, large deposits of alum and copperas were also discovered. Both minerals are pivotable in
8-527: The 1935 novel of the same name by A. J. Cronin , is set in the fictional pit village of Sleescale. The film was shot partly on location at St Helens Siddick Colliery in Workington . The novel How Green Was My Valley and the subsequent film adaptation of the same name were based in a fictional pit village in the South Wales Valleys . A fictional village in this region was the site of
12-604: The dyeing process in the textile industry, allowing the village to become significant in the county. During the late twentieth century, most of the Hurlet was consigned to the history books when the A726 road, which cut through the village, was widened to become a dual carriageway . Sir Isaac Holden, 1st Baronet , inventor. This Scottish location article is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Pit village The 1939 film The Stars Look Down , based on
16-554: The film The Proud Valley , starring Paul Robeson . Billy Elliot , set in a fictitious pit village during the miners' strike of 1984–85, was shot on location in Easington Colliery . Brassed Off was set in "Grimley", a thin veil for Grimethorpe . The depopulation of Fitzwilliam , West Yorkshire was the theme of a song by Chumbawamba and David Peace 's novel Nineteen Seventy Four . Citations Bibliography This article about geography terminology
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