Ellistown
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| Ellistown shown within Leicestershire | |
| Population | 2,106 (parish, 2001 census) |
| OS grid reference | SK4211 |
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| Region | |
| Country | England |
| Sovereign state | United Kingdom |
| Post town | Coalville |
| Postcode district | LE67 |
| Dialling code | 01530 |
| Police | Leicestershire |
| Fire | Leicestershire |
| Ambulance | East Midlands |
| EU Parliament | East Midlands |
| UK Parliament | |
| Website | Ellistown & Battleflat Parish Council |
Ellistown is a village about 2 miles (3 km) south of Coalville in North West Leicestershire, England. The population from the 2011 census was included in the civil parish of Ellistown and Battleflat.
The village has a community primary school, two shops, a filling station, a village shop, a Post Office and a hairdressing salon. There is also The New Ellistown Hotel public house, a working men's club, football club and five play parks. Ellistown is just within the eastern boundary of the National Forest.
Ellistown is named after Colonel Joseph Joel Ellis of London, but its history predates him. From the 14th century it was in the hundred of Sparkenhoe and parish of . Ecclesiastically the area was part of the Diocese of Peterborough from the English Reformation until 1926, when it became part of the new Diocese of Leicester. The village was developed for coal mining from the Victorian era.
Around 1140 Swinfen Grange was one of two granges given by nobleman Robert Byrton to the Abbot of Garendon Abbey which was near what is now Shepshed. Swinfen was where the Abbot's bailiff lived and was only a small mud and wattle built settlement with three strip fields surrounded by Charnwood Forest.
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