Coleorton Calendar - April 2022
The Old Engine Inn
The Old Engine Inn was built sometime in the 1700s and closed its doors around 1904. It is now a lovely cottage named "The Knoll". It's located in a small lane off Stoney Lane which used to be known as Elverston's Yard where there were several cottages.
Chapel Lane which goes from Lower Moor Road up by the Old School Room (the original Methodist Chapel) now ends in a footpath across a field. if you continue over the stile you come to the Willow Cottage and then The Knoll and through to Stoney Lane.
The Engine Inn got its name from the Newcomen engine which operated nearby to pump water from the mines.
From Coalville Times 19 Feb 1909
Valuable Freehold Property
to be sold by Auction by
ORCHARD & JOYCE
at the BEAUMONT ARMS INN COLEORTON, on FRIDAY, MARCH 5th, 1909, at 7 p.m.
A FREEHOLD DWELLING-HOUSE, situated at Coleorton, formerly the "Old Engine Inn" occupied by Mr. John Richards; also TWO COTTAGES with Gardens and Outbuildings adjoining, occupied by Mr. Wm. Richards.
The adjoining lands are the property of Sir George Beaumont, Bart.