Site retains a fine group of late Victorian industrial buildings, several of which have been Listed for their historical importance. These include a generating house and other ancillary structures.
- 1880 Arthur James Price
- 1890-1895 Princess Royal Colliery Co.
- 1905-1915 Princess Royal Colliery Co.
Site originally housed a chemical works between 1840 and 1900, some of whose buildings were later incorporated into the colliery. By 1891, the Princess Royal Colliery Company was actively working the site in conjunction with Park Gutter Colliery. The principal coal seam, the Coleford High Delf, was reached at a depth of 425 feet in the No. 3 shaft.
Publications (9)
- Anstis 1999 p 62, 71, 82, 90, 109
- GSIA 1976 p 62 Reader's Letter
- GSIA 1985 p 46 mention
- Oldham, Tony (1998); Mines of the Forest of Dean; 86 pages
- Phelps 1983; p. 34.
- Phelps 1984; p. 42.
- Phelps 1994; p. 51.
- Pope; p. 111 ff.
- Trotter pp 29, 32-3, 35, 45.
