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Coleford, Somerset
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 village has a population of 2,313.
==History==
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 around the beginning of the 19th century and closed in 1927.〔 The Coal Barton mine was the scene of a firedamp explosion which killed nine miners in 1869.
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