page_title: Minera
section_title: Recent history
hierarchical_section_title: Minera / Recent history
caption_attribution_description: English: Minera Lead Mines, near to Coedpoeth, Wrexham/Wrecsam, Great Britain. Restored engine house on Meadows Shaft.
context_page_description: Minera is a small village, and a local government community, the lowest tier of local government, part of Wrexham County Borough in the United Kingdom. It adjoins the large village of Coedpoeth.
  The community, which in addition to Minera village includes a number of smaller hamlets such as Gwynfryn and New Brighton and large areas of farmland, had a total population of 1,608 at the 2001 census, increasing slightly to 1,617 at the 2011 Census.
context_section_description: The lead and zinc mining industry declined in the early years of the 20th century, the mines finally closing in 1914 (the engine house of the Meadow Shaft remained standing in a derelict condition until the early 1990s, when it was restored). Despite the loss of its traditional industries the village of Minera expanded rapidly in the period after World War II, thanks to the construction of council housing estates.
  The civil parish of Minera, whose boundaries approximated those of the old township of Minera, was replaced by the community of Minera under the terms of the Local Government Act 1972; the records of the old Minera Parish Council are held in the Denbighshire Record Office.
caption: The Meadow Shaft of the Minera Lead Mines, near the hamlet of New Brighton. The buildings have been restored as a visitor centre
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