Newbold Coleorton

An account of 1863 records that Newbold comprised approximately 500 acres (2.0 km2) in the ownership of Earl Ferrers and Sir G H Beaumont Bart; also that it had a colliery.

[1] The colliery was closed in the 1980s and has since been transformed into a nature reserve with large ponds and rich forest.

On 12 September 2019 three homes were evacuated, and a cordon was placed on Vicarage Close in Newbold Coleorton.

Bomb disposal experts, paramedics, police and the fire service all attended the incident and a local man was arrested on suspicion of making or possessing explosives under suspicious circumstances.

Matthew Montanow, 29 pleaded guilty to two counts of possessing explosive substances, two counts of making explosive substances, and four of possessing prohibited ammunition at Leicester Crown Court in January 2020; he was subsequently sentenced on 8 July 2020.