COLEFORD PARISH

Introduction

Coleford is a village and civil parish in Somerset, England, situated on the Mells River in the Mendip Hills five miles west of Frome. The parish has a population of 2,313 in 2011. Coleford was listed in the Domesday Book of 1086 as Colford, meaning the hill ford, possibly from the Old French col and ford, or alternatively the coal ford, a ford over which charcoal was carried. There are visible remains of a famous unfinished engineering project, the Dorset and Somerset Canal aqueduct, known locally as the 'Huckyduck', which was abandoned in 1803. The village once had several coal mines as part of the now closed Somerset coalfield. Just north of Coleford there were the collieries of Newbury and Mackintosh. Mackintosh opened in 1867 but closed in 1919, due to flooding. The Natural Stone Products factory is built on the site of Newbury Colliery. This pit started at the beginning of the 19th century and closed in 1927. The Coal Barton mine was the scene of a firedamp explosion in 1869.

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Parish Information

Parish statistics

Area	583 hectares
Population	2,368 ⁽²⁰²¹⁾
Density	406 people/km²
Mean age	41.5
Ward	Coleford and Holcombe
District	Mendip
Postcodes	BA11, BA3
ONS ID	E04008550