Ibstock
Ibstock is a town and also civil parish regarding 2.5 miles (4 km) south of Coalville in North West Leicestershire, England. The population of the civil church was 5,760 at the 2001 census enhancing to 6,201 at the 2011 census. The village gets on the A447 road In between Coalville as well as Hinckley. The toponym Ibstock could be a derivative of Ibestoche indicating the plantation or community of Ibba, which is an Old English personal name additionally discovered in various other toponyms. The 1801 Census offers a total population of 763, in 152 families, two-thirds participated in agriculture, the rest in profession and production. By 1811 the population had actually boosted to 836. Ibstock is a former coal mining area as well as additionally has historical and also present factory that create tiles, bricks, boots and also shoes, as well as light engineering. In the 19th century a branch of the Ashby as well as Nuneaton Joint Railway was developed via the location as well as Heather & Ibstock train station was opened to offer the village. Passenger solutions ended in 1931, with the line through to Coalville East closing completely in 1964, prior to the magazine of the Reshaping of British Railways record. The station master's house on Station Road makes it through.
