Memorials of Coleorton, Vol. 1: Being Letters From Coleridge, Wordsworth and His Sister, Southey, and Sir Walter Scott to Sir George and Lady Beaumont ... 1803 to 1834 (Classic Reprint) - Hardcover

Knight, William

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Excerpt from Memorials of Coleorton, Vol. 1: Being Letters From Coleridge, Wordsworth and His Sister, Southey, and Sir Walter Scott to Sir George and Lady Beaumont of Coleorton, Leicestershire, 1803 to 1834

It lies about four miles south-east of Ashby de-la-zouche, in Leicestershire. The 'orton' is a corruption of over - town, or upper town, - the higher of two small townships, the other being nether-town. As a stratum of coal came to the surface, and was wrought, at the former of these villages, it was called Coal Overton, or Coalorton, hence Coleorton. The mines are very old. In the reign of Henry VIII., says an old chronicler, the fire did burn for many years together, and could not be quenched until that sulphurous and brimstony matter (whereupon it wrought) was utterly exhausted and consumed.' In the ac count of Leicestershire given in The Wort/zies of England, by Thomas Fuller, published in 1662.

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