Stanton under Bardon in Europe. However in 2006, mining at the New Cliffe Hill Quarry ceased. Stanton under Bardon Stanton-under-Bardon is a village and civil parish about southeast of Coalville, Leicestershire, England. The 2011 Census recorded the parish's population as 634. Most of the houses are red brick, and many on Main Street are terraced and have long, thin gardens. The village is set in farmland and open fields and is near Junction 22 of the M1 motorway. The village is near Markfield, with which it shares a local newspaper, the "Markfield and Stanton Under Bardon Herald". The village has a thatched pub,
M54 motorway (Map), which continues on to Shrewsbury as dual carriageway. Telford Motorway Service Station opened on 18 March 2003 at junction 4, and is operated by Welcome Break. It is the only service station on this motorway and, if travelling east, the last before Corley on the M6 or Frankley on the M5. The Department for Transport (DfT) is currently investigating the possibility of extending the M54 westward to Shrewsbury, thereby placing the county town on the UK motorway map for the first time. Currently traffic has to continue onto the dual carriageway A5 when the M54 ends at Wellington although