Mining village

{{short description|Settlement for housing colliery workers}} {{wiktionary}} [[File:Pitfield Street sign, Pit Village, Beamish Museum, 26 January 2014.jpg|thumb|Pitfield Street sign, Pit Village, 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 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.

==Examples== * New Sharlston Colliery Village, 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, Atherton, 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, in Astley, Tyldesley, Greater Manchester (1874){{sfn|Davies|2010|p=97|ps=}} * 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, 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<ref>{{cite PastScape |mnumber=1038798 |mname=Newstead Colliery Village |access-date=15 August 2015 | mode=cs2}}</ref> * Woodlands, 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'', based on 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 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.<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'' 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''.

A town simply known as Miner's Halt appears in series 5 of Thomas & 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), a type of house common to mining villages in Belgium and Northern France

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'''Bibliography''' {{refbegin}} *{{citation |last=Davies |first=Alan|title=Coal Mining in Lancashire & Cheshire|publisher=Amberley|year=2010|isbn=978-1-84868-488-1}} {{refend}}

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