# Mining village

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{{short description|Settlement for housing colliery workers}}
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[[File:Pitfield Street sign, Pit Village, Beamish Museum, 26 January 2014.jpg|thumb|Pitfield Street sign, Pit Village, [Beamish Museum](/source/Beamish_Museum)]]
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](/source/Great_Britain) during the [Industrial Revolution](/source/Industrial_Revolution) where new coal mines were developed in isolated or unpopulated areas. Such settlements were developed by companies for the incoming workers.

==Examples==
* [New Sharlston Colliery Village](/source/Sharlston), Yorkshire (1864)<ref>{{citation |title= Sharlston Colliery Model Village |url=http://www.heritagegateway.org.uk/Gateway/Results_Single.aspx?uid=7071&resourceID=105|publisher=Heritage Gateway |access-date=13 August 2015}}</ref>
* [Howe Bridge](/source/Howe_Bridge), [Atherton](/source/Atherton%2C_Greater_Manchester), [Greater Manchester](/source/Greater_Manchester) (1873–79)<ref>{{citation |title= Howe Bridge, Atherton Conservation Area Appraisal |url=
http://www.wigan.gov.uk/Docs/PDF/Resident/Planning-and-Building-Control/Conservation-areas/HoweBridgeConservationAreaAppraisalMarch2010.pdf| format =pdf| p=10 |publisher=Wigan Council |access-date=13 August 2015}}</ref>
* [Gin Pit village](/source/Astley_and_Tyldesley_Collieries), in [Astley](/source/Astley%2C_Greater_Manchester), [Tyldesley](/source/Tyldesley), [Greater Manchester](/source/Greater_Manchester) (1874){{sfn|Davies|2010|p=97|ps=}}
* [Creswell Model Village](/source/Creswell_Model_Village), Derbyshire (1895)<ref>{{Cite PastScape |num=929805 |desc=The Model Village |access-date=13 August 2015|mode=cs2|fewer-links=yes}}</ref>
* [New Bolsover model village](/source/New_Bolsover_model_village), Derbyshire (1896)<ref>{{Cite PastScape |num=613327 |desc=New Bolsover Model Village |accessdate=13 August 2015 |mode=cs2|fewer-links=yes}}</ref>
* [Newstead Colliery Village](/source/Newstead%2C_Nottinghamshire)<ref>{{cite PastScape |mnumber=1038798 |mname=Newstead Colliery Village  |access-date=15 August 2015 | mode=cs2}}</ref>
* [Woodlands](/source/Woodlands%2C_South_Yorkshire), Yorkshire (1905)<ref>{{citation |title=A study of Woodlands Model Colliery Village 1907-1909 |url= http://www.presidentsmedals.com/Entry-8090  | publisher=Royal Institute of British Architects |access-date=13 August 2015}}</ref>

==In popular culture==
The 1939 film ''[The Stars Look Down](/source/The_Stars_Look_Down_(film))'', based on the [1935 novel of the same name](/source/The_Stars_Look_Down) by [A. J. Cronin](/source/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](/source/Workington).

The novel ''[How Green Was My Valley](/source/How_Green_Was_My_Valley)'' and the subsequent [film adaptation of the same name](/source/How_Green_Was_My_Valley_(film)) were based in a fictional pit village in the [South Wales Valleys](/source/South_Wales_Valleys). A fictional village in this region was the site of the film ''[The Proud Valley](/source/The_Proud_Valley)'', starring [Paul Robeson](/source/Paul_Robeson).

''[Billy Elliot](/source/Billy_Elliot)'', set in a fictitious pit village during the [miners' strike](/source/UK_miners'_strike_(1984%E2%80%9385)) of 1984–85, was shot on location in [Easington Colliery](/source/Easington_Colliery).<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/this-britain/welcome-to-easington-after-billy-left-town-489961.html|title=Welcome to Easington... after Billy left town|last=Byrnes|first=Sholto|date=8 May 2005|work=The Independent|accessdate=17 October 2022}}</ref>

''[Brassed Off](/source/Brassed_Off)'' was set in "Grimley", a thin veil for [Grimethorpe](/source/Grimethorpe). The depopulation of [Fitzwilliam](/source/Fitzwilliam%2C_West_Yorkshire), [West Yorkshire](/source/West_Yorkshire) was the theme of a song by [Chumbawamba](/source/Chumbawamba) and [David Peace](/source/David_Peace)'s novel ''Nineteen Seventy Four''.

A town simply known as Miner's Halt appears in series 5 of [Thomas & Friends](/source/Thomas_%26_Friends) and seems to be a Mining Village complete with a platform for the miners to get on a train for work.

==See also==
*[Coron (house)](/source/Coron_(house)), a type of house common to mining villages in Belgium and Northern France

==References==
'''Citations'''
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'''Bibliography'''
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*{{citation |last=Davies |first=Alan|title=Coal Mining in Lancashire & Cheshire|publisher=Amberley|year=2010|isbn=978-1-84868-488-1}}
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Category:Mining communities in the United Kingdom
Category:Villages in the United Kingdom

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