The key characteristics of the Leicestershire and South Derbyshire Coalfield are:

71. Leicestershire and South Derbyshire Coalfield

The key characteristics of the Leicestershire and South Derbyshire Coalfield are:

• Prominent tips, clay pits and sprawling mining settlements.

• Gently-undulating landform of shallow valleys and ridges, dominated by mining features.

• Mainly low, thin hedges with few hedgerow trees.

• Mixed arable and pasture.

• Localised area of small fields and dense hedgerows.

• Prominent groups of red brick miners' cottages.

• Industrial archaeological interest of surface workings, cottages, tramways, Ashby Canal and Moira Furnace.

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