Nailsea
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History
Nailsea is a town in North Somerset, England to the south west of Bristol and to the north east of the seaside resort of Weston-super-Mare.
Nailsea's economy initially rested on coal mining, which began as early as the 16th century. By the late 1700s, the town had a large number of pits and was visited by the social reformer Hannah More who founded a Sunday school for the workers. The coal mines attracted John Robert Lucas, a glass manufacturer, in 1788, and the glass works he established would eventually become the fourth largest of their kind in the United Kingdom. Though the works closed down in 1873, "Nailsea" glass (mostly made by glass workers at the end of their shift in Nailsea and at other glass works) is still sought after by collectors around the world. The site of the glass works has been covered by a Tesco supermarket car park (leaving it relatively accessible for future archaeological digs). Other parts of the site are currently being cleared and filled with sand ensuring that the remains of the old glass works are preserved for the future. Remains of many of the old pits, most of which had closed down by the late nineteenth century as mining capital migrated to the richer seams of South Wales, are still visible around the town.
Population
Nailsea is a commuter town with an approximate population of 18,000. The total population of Nailsea and the adjacent village of Backwell, if counted as one urban area is around 23,000.
Leisure and Activities
Sporting facilities include football clubs, rugby clubs, karate clubs, cricket fields and boxing.
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