Newbold had a large number of bell pits and at least five shafted mines. With a coal seam so close to the surface, it is little wonder that collieries were established in and around the village to extract the coal.
It is believed that pipes were being made in Newbold during the 1860s. The Leicestershire Colliery and Pipe Company took over manufacturing around 1900 on a site at the bottom of what is now Pipe Yard Lane.
For centuries, clay, an important bi-product of mining, has been used in the manufacture of bricks. Newbold has a history of brickmaking, most notably by the Newbold Brick Company founded in 1934.
Newbold was originally a collection of farms and agricultural buildings. Whilst neither of Newbold’s original farms are still operational today, the village is still surrounded by working farmland.
Newbold had a number of shops including a Co-op and a sweet shop. The village also had a glove factory which employed mainly women from Newbold and other nearby villages.
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