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A pit village, colliery village or mining village is a settlement built by colliery owners to house their workers. The villages were built on the coalfields of Great Britain during the Industrial Revolution where new coal mines were developed in isolated or unpopulated areas. Such settlements were developed by companies for the incoming workers.
The novel How Green Was My Valley and the subsequent film adaptation of the same name were based in a fictional pit village in the South Wales Valleys. A fictional village in this region was the site of the film The Proud Valley, starring Paul Robeson.
Billy Elliot, set in a fictitious pit village during the miners' strike of 1984–85, was shot on location in Easington Colliery.
Brassed Off was set in "Grimley", a thin veil for Grimethorpe. The depopulation of Fitzwilliam, West Yorkshire was the theme of a song by Chumbawamba and David Peace's novel Nineteen Seventy Four.
A town simply known as Miner's Halt appears in series 5 of Thomas & Friends and seems to be a Mining Village complete with a platform for the miners to get on a train for work.
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