Worcester Lodge Mine

aka Worcester No 3 Mine

Coal Mine

Jul 14th, 2025 from TO by BertyBasset



Forest of Dean
Coleford
51.777626, -2.5174041
SO 6440 0890
Open Access
131m
#26,917


A small mine located at the head of Wimberry Slade, it was abandoned in 1996 and later acquired by Dan Howell. The site works the Yorkley seam, a coal vein characteristic of the area. The mine has had intermittent activity, with work suspended temporarily as of 2005, but with intentions to resume.


Publications (4)

  • Hayes, Ian 2000 Free Mines in the Forest / The Forest of Dean Coal Mines at the commencement of the New Millennium
  • Oldham, Tony (1998); Mines of the Forest of Dean; 86 pages
  • Pope, Ian 2007 There’s Gold in Them Hills or is there?. Archive (54) June 2007 52-63 illus
  • Ranieri, Michael 2007 Forest of Dean Coal Mining" PDMHS 16 (4) pp 43-46





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