Piccadilly, Warwickshire
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| Piccadilly shown within Warwickshire | |
| OS grid reference | SP98013 |
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| Country | England |
| Sovereign state | United Kingdom |
| Post town | Tamworth |
| Postcode district | B76 |
| Dialling code | 01827 |
| Police | Warwickshire |
| Fire | Warwickshire |
| Ambulance | West Midlands |
| EU Parliament | West Midlands |
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Piccadilly is a small Village in the North Warwickshire district of the county of Warwickshire in England. It is located near to the larger village of Kingsbury(where population detailsare included), and is four miles south of Tamworth.
Piccadilly was built in 1904 to house miners who worked at the nearby Kingsbury Colliery and the village was built on land belonging to the mine. It consisted of two rows of three- storey houses along one main street.
Piccadilly earned its name from Piccadilly in London, which was the home of Colonel Dibley, one of the village's founders. Dibley asked the miners what they would like to call their new village, but when nobody could think of an appropriate name, he chose Piccadilly.
In 1908 a clubhouse was built. It had been turned into a pub named The Jewel in the Crown but this has now been demolished and social housing built.
The village remained much the same until 1947 when prefabricated housing was built to house more mineworkers. These were demolished in the early 1960s after which the local authority of the time, Tamworth Rural District Council, used the land to build council houses. These remain to the present day.
The mine was closed in 1968 and is now the Kingsbury link Business park.
In 2009 a memorial wall was built containing the names of all the miners who worked at Kingsbury Colliery and Dexter Colliery. In the center of the wall there is a miner's lamp that is always lit to commemorate those who have died and those who remember working down the mines.
According to the 2001 Census the population of the Hurley and Wood End ward was 3,642. Over 99.5% of people (3,550) describe themselves as White British with only 89 people from other ethnic groups. The most common distance travelled to work is 5–10 kilometres (3.1–6.2 mi), which is essentially to Tamworth, with the most common form of employment being manufacturing. The Ward almost has an almost exact 50:50 split of males and females, with a ratio of 1,822 to 1,820 respectively. According to Kingsbury Parish Council there are 142 houses in the village.
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