Hopewell Colliery Museum


Coal Museum

Oct 27th, 2024 from MuseumsList by BertyBasset

Jul 12th, 2025 by BertyBasset


Forest of Dean
Cannop
51.8000031, -2.577697
SO 6026 1142
Private Land
119m
#26,510

Cafe, Mine tours, Museum, working mine on site, only coal mine in the UK where you can take photos underground.

Tour offers a caplamp-guided underground tour through New Road Adit, leading visitors to a previously worked coal seam only 18 inches high. The route returns to the surface via the historic drainage adit. On-site displays include tools used by Forest miners.

Working freemine includes a drainage adit originally driven in the 1800s by renowned metallurgist and industrialist David Mushet. I

Speech House Rd, Cannop, Hill, Coleford GL16 7EL
01594810706
contact@hopewellcolliery.com
10am-4pm Daily, Tours booked online

Publications (3)

  • Anstis 1999 p 72
  • NMRS N/L Dec 1996 3 Coal Mining Museum in the Forest of Dean by Michael P Munro.
  • Oldham, Tony (1998); Mines of the Forest of Dean; 86 pages

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