Ellistown

Ellistown is situated close to Coalville in Leicestershire and takes its name from Colonel Joseph Joel Ellis who sank the Ellistown Colliery there in 1873 and soon after a brickworks was opened by the colliery.

Joseph Ellis died in 1897 and the colliery, brickworks and estate being carried on by trustees under Orders of the Court of Chancery until 1936. The colliery and brickworks were then separated into two separate companies and bricks production was then under the auspices of the Ellistown Brick and Pipe Company until closure shortly before the Second War.