>Does anyone know what happened to the mine by the B4226 from Coleford to
>Cinderford at SO 602 114? Last time I passed (year or so ago) this was being
>converted into a Forest Coal visitor centre.
>
Hopewell Colliery is now up and runing as a visitor attraction. Underground
tour and small museum. Excellent tea shop. A small headframe has recently
been erected on the surface.
Ian
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Ian Pope
Cartographer
Oxford Centre for Cartography & Geographical Information Sciences
School of Planning
Oxford Brookes University
Gipsy Lane
Oxford
01865-483368
Chairman, Forest of Dean Local History Society
http://www.fweb.org.uk/dean/deanhist/fdhs.htm
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