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Set to the north of Warwickshire, and close to the borders of Staffordshire, Derbyshire and Leicestershire..
..the picturesque town of Polesworth grew around a shallow crossing point of the River Anker..
..which attracted the first Iron Age settlers to the site.
In the centre of the town the beautiful Abbey Church..
..which is close to the medieval Abbey Gateway with a number of elegant timbered houses close by.
The Coventry Canal was built through the town in the 1770s..
..and in the late 1800s Pooley Hall Colliery was opened.
The pit closed in 1965 and is now the site of Pooley Country Park and Heritage Centre.