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
External Links
Publications (5)
- (1995); WMS Newsletter Issue 33 Dec; 8 pages
- (1997); WMS Newsletter Issue 36 Jun; 8 pages
- 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
