Coalville, Leicestershire Weather
About Coalville, Leicestershire
Coalville holds the heavy, dark legacy of the Leicestershire coalfield within its uneven, iron-rich earth. It lies 2.8 miles north-east of Ibstock (from Ibstock: bearing 34°T, OS grid SK 433 138), and is situated north-east of Hugglescote village. The landscape bears the deep scars of Victorian industry, where the extraction of deep-seam fuel once dictated the pulse of every street. Today, the economy has shifted from the soot-stained pits to modern logistics and light manufacture, leaving behind the silent, rusted geometry of the Snibston Colliery. Sunlight catches the grit of the remaining spoil heaps, illuminating a terrain that transformed the nation’s hearths for generations.
Coalville Park offers a green, quiet reprieve where the sharp edges of the past soften under the canopy of mature trees. The nearby Miners Memorial stands as a stark, metallic sentinel, reflecting the endurance of those who laboured in the dark beneath the feet of the living. Cultural life here is punctuated by the performances at the Century Theatre, which brings a fragile, human warmth to the industrial periphery. The local character is forged by a resilience that remains long after the last pit head closed, a quiet grit that persists in the faces of the people. This is a place where the horizon is defined not by ancient spires, but by the memory of the deep, subterranean work that built the modern world.
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EUMETSAT Meteosat imagery over the British Isles — updated every 15 minutes.
About This Coalville, Leicestershire Weather Page
This page provides live weather conditions and forecasts for Coalville, Leicestershire, England, including current conditions, a 24-hour hourly forecast, 7-day outlook, real-time aviation weather (METAR and TAF reports from the nearest reporting airport), precipitation radar and Meteosat satellite imagery. Public safety alerts are sourced from the Met Office National Severe Weather Warning Service (NSWWS), covering wind, rain, snow, ice, fog, thunderstorm and extreme heat warnings. Soil temperature, soil moisture and evapotranspiration data are provided for agricultural planning in this town. Live river level data is sourced from the Environment Agency Flood Monitoring API. All data updates automatically on every page visit.
Location data for Coalville includes coordinates 52.7208, -1.360212, in the county of Leicestershire, England. Times are shown in local UK time (GMT in winter, BST in summer). A street and satellite map of Coalville is available on the Coalville map page, and forecasts for neighbouring towns are listed on the Leicestershire weather hub.
Weather data is sourced from the Met Office and the open-source Open-Meteo API, whose ensemble includes the Met Office UKMO model. Severe weather warnings come from the Met Office National Severe Weather Warning Service (NSWWS). River level and tidal data are sourced from the Environment Agency Flood Monitoring and National Tide Gauge Network APIs. Aviation data is sourced from aviationweather.gov, with a modelled estimate shown where no reporting station is in range. Radar is provided by RainViewer and satellite imagery by EUMETSAT. All data updates automatically on every page visit.