Bricked-up adit in the woods, opposite the school and beneath the disused railway track. It was developed in 1869 by the Lydbrook Deep Collieries Company Ltd and was used to drain Pludds Colliery.
Note c2000:
This mine has been re-opened by Mervyn Bradley. The haulage engine is housed in a converted bulk tank. In summer 2000 a second dipple was being driven to a coal face which is some 75 m from the surface.
- 1885 Lydbrook Deep Level Colliery Co.
- 1890 Birchin Grove Colliery Co. Ltd
- 1895-1910 R. Thomas & Co
Publications (7)
- 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
- Oldham, Tony (1998); Mines of the Forest of Dean; 86 pages
- Pope p 421
- Sopwith, Robert (2001); PDMHS (Peak District Mines Historical Society) 14-6 Win - Thomas Sopwith and the Forest of Dean, 1832 to 1841; 4 pages (46-49)
- The New Regard No 9 1993 pp 13 & 15
- Trotter p 37
