Ibstock
Ibstock is a former coal mining village and civil parish in North West Leicestershire, England. The population of the civil parish was 5,760 at the 2001 census increasing to 6,201 at the 2011 census and 7,615 at the 2021 census.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Ian Rob, CC BY-SA 2.0.
- Type: Village with 5,650 residents
- Description: town and civil parish in North West Leicestershire, England
- Also known as: “Ibstock (civil parish), Leicestershire” and “Ibstock, Leicestershire”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Ibstock School and Church of St Denys and Paget Tombs in Churchyard.
Ibstock School
School
Ibstock School is a coeducational secondary school located in Ibstock in the English county of Leicestershire. Previously a community middle school administered by Leicestershire County Council, in September 2012 Ibstock School converted to academy status.
Sence Valley Forest Park
Park
Sence Valley Forest Park is located between Ibstock and Heather in North West Leicestershire, and within the National Forest, England. It is situated on the site of a former open cast mine where, between 1982 and 1996, eight million tonnes of coal were extracted by opencast mining.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Heather and Ellistown.
Heather
Village
Photo: Trevor Rickard, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Heather is a village west of Ibstock in North West Leicestershire, England. The population of the civil parish was 949 at the 2001 census reducing to 920 at the 2011 census.
Ellistown
Village
Photo: Kate Jewell, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Ellistown is a village about 2 miles south of Coalville in the North West Leicestershire district of Leicestershire, England. It is named after Colonel Joseph Joel Ellis who died in 1885. Ellistown is situated 1½ miles northeast of Ibstock.
Donington le Heath
Village
Donington le Heath is a village on the River Sence just over 1 mile south of the centre of Coalville in North West Leicestershire. Donington is contiguous with the village of Hugglescote immediately to the east. Donington le Heath is situated 1½ miles northeast of Ibstock.
Ibstock
- Categories: civil parish, town, and locality
- Location: Ibstock, North West Leicestershire, Leicestershire, East Midlands, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
52.68839° or 52° 41′ 18″ northLongitude
-1.39879° or 1° 23′ 56″ westPopulation
5,650Elevation
440 feet (134 metres)United Nations Location Code
GB TCKOpen location code
9C4WMJQ2+9FOpenStreetMap ID
node 417105327OpenStreetMap feature
place=village
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Armenian to Urdu—“Ibstock” goes by many names.
- Armenian: “Իբսթոք”
- Asturian: “Ibstock”
- Basque: “Ibstock”
- Bengali: “ইবস্টক”
- Cebuano: “Ibstock”
- Chinese: “伊本斯拓”
- Chinese: “艾伯斯多克”
- Dutch: “Ibstock”
- French: “Ibstock”
- German: “Ibstock”
- Gujarati: “આઇબસ્ટોક”
- Irish: “Ibstock”
- Italian: “Ibstock”
- Japanese: “アイブストック”
- Kannada: “ಇಬ್ಸ್ಟಾಕ್”
- Korean: “입스톡”
- Lithuanian: “Ibstokas”
- Polish: “Ibstock”
- Portuguese: “Ibstock”
- Russian: “Ибсток”
- Spanish: “Ibstock”
- Swedish: “Ibstock”
- Tamil: “இப்ஸ்டோக்”
- Telugu: “ఇబ్ స్టాక్”
- Turkish: “Ibstock”
- Urdu: “یبستوک”
- “Ibstock”
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Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include Ibstock Swimming Pool and The Palace.
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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Ibstock”. Photo: Ian Rob, CC BY-SA 2.0.