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Swadlincote railway station was a station that served the town of Swadlincote, South Derbyshire. The station was located off Midland Road near the present day fire station which now occupies the station site. There is also a new build housing estate nearby called "Old Railway Mews".

Swadlincote Town Hall is a municipal building in The Delph in Swadlincote, a town in Derbyshire in England. The building, which serves a community events venue, is a Grade II listed building.

Swadlincote is a historic mining town in the district of South Derbyshire, in the ceremonial county of Derbyshire, England. It lies within The National Forest area. It borders the counties of Leicestershire and Staffordshire, 5 miles (8 km) southeast of Burton upon Trent and north-west of Ashby-de-la-Zouch and 12 miles (19 km) southwest of Derby. It covers the suburban areas of Church Gresley, Goseley, Midway, Newhall, Oversetts and Woodville. It had a population of 32,219.

The Bees, Wasps and Ants Recording Society (BWARS) is a British society dedicated to recording bees, wasps and ants. The recording of these insects is most important to monitor the health of an ecosystem, and in the past, studies of British ants were carried out by such notable myrmecologists as Horace Donisthorpe and Sir John Lubbock.

Newhall is a village in the South Derbyshire district of Derbyshire, England. The village of Stanton and town of Swadlincote are nearby.

William Allitt Academy (formerly William Allitt School), is a co-educational secondary school located in the village of Newhall, Swadlincote in South Derbyshire, England.The school was founded in 1895 as the Newhall Central Board School, when the Newhall Oversetts and Newhall High Street Board Schools were merged. In 1914, the school was split into separate boys' and girls' schools, but these recombined in 1939. Due to subsidence from mining, it relocated to a new site in 1959, and was renamed after local councillor William Allitt. In 1966, it became a comprehensive school.Previously a community school administered by Derbyshire County Council, in September 2022 William Allitt School converted to academy status and was renamed The William Allitt Academy. The school is now sponsored by the Falcon Education Academies Trust.The school's headteacher is Jackie Cooper. Deputy Headteacher Mike McCandless was acting head teacher from September 2013 to April 2014 and previous to this the head teacher was David Clarke. Clarke took over after John Crossley retired in 2010 having been head at the school since 1996.

Gresley Rovers Football Club is an English football club from Church Gresley, South Derbyshire. Gresley is a member of the Northern Premier League Division One Midlands and plays home games at the Moat Ground. They were known as Gresley Rovers until 2009, when they were reformed under the name of Gresley F.C. In July 2020 the club readopted their original name, Gresley Rovers.

The Leicestershire and South Derbyshire Coalfield in the English Midlands is one of the smaller British coalfields. The two areas are sometimes separately referred to as the South Derbyshire Coalfield and the Leicestershire Coalfield. All of the worked coal seams are contained within the Lower and Middle Coal Measures which are of Upper Carboniferous age.

Church Gresley is a large suburban village and former civil parish in the South Derbyshire district of Derbyshire, England. The village is situated between Castle Gresley and the town of Swadlincote, with which it is contiguous. By the time of the 2011 Census the village was a ward of Swadlincote, of which it is now effectively a suburb, and the population of Church Gresley ward was 6,881. The village forms part of the border with Leicestershire to the southeast. Nearby villages include Albert Village, Linton and Overseal.

Gresley Priory was a monastery of Augustinian Canons regular in Church Gresley, Derbyshire, England, founded in the 12th century. Following the Dissolution of the Monasteries, the priory church became the village's parish church of St George and St Mary It was the church that gave Church Gresley its name. Excavations undertaken in 1861 reveal the priory's buildings were situated around a cloister to the south of the church; the refectory occupied the south range, and two chapter houses occupied spaces to the east of the cloister. Of the original 12th-century priory buildings, only the foundations of the church and the lower section of the tower remain; this is due to large scale rebuilding works done around 1820. The church is Grade II* listed.

St George and St Mary's Church, Church Gresley is a Grade II* listed parish church in the Church of England in Church Gresley, Derbyshire.

The Granville Colliery was a coal mine in Swadlincote, Derbyshire, England. It has its origins in a nearby mine established in 1780, but mining began on the site of the colliery in 1823. The Granville Colliery Company was founded in 1872 to take over the mine and expanded the works, opening the Granville No. 2 Colliery nearby. Production peaked at 225,000 long tons (229,000 t) of coal in 1891. The two collieries combined into a single works by 1933 and in 1947 were nationalised under the National Coal Board (NCB). The surface works were closed in 1967 when the underground works were connected with the NCB's Rawdon Colliery, Leicestershire.