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,
Staffordshire Fire and Rescue Service school at Pirehill near the town of Stone in mid-Staffordshire. Their fire control centre used to be at Pirehill, but was closed after its amalgamation with fire control of the West Midlands Fire Service in March 2014. So now both brigades operate under a joint control centre situated in Birmingham. The county's maintenance workshops are located at Hanley fire station in central Stoke-on-Trent. Of the thirty-three strategically located fire stations, only Stafford, Tamworth Belgrave and Sandyford operate on a wholetime 24-hour crewing basis. Longton, Hanley, Newcastle-under-Lyme, Cannock and Burton-upon-Trent operate as wholetime/retained stations, which means, along with a 24-hour station-based