Description
One of the few working mines left in the Forest. The mine works the Yorkley seam via two drifts, one of which is through the rear doors of an old box van and the other and old water tank. The coal comes out in tubs and is tipped into the yard where it can be bagged and sent away.
There is much mining equipment rusting away in the yard .
History
2006 Mervyn Bradley, Mark Bradley & Ray Ashly
2008 Ray Ashly, Richard Daniels, Neil Jones
Access Details
Private land but can be seens from outside the compound.
External Links
Publications (3)
(2006); BGS - Mineral Resource Development Maps & Plans - Gloucestershire - Report; 22 pages 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
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