Mike Gill <[log in to unmask]> wrote: Can anyone please confirm the existence of the following coal mine:-
Folly Park Colliery, Presteign in Radnorshire, Not working in 1915.
Surely that is well north of the South-Wales coalfield. Was it an outlier of Coal Measures or a Limestone Coal?
Regards,
Mike Gill
It is also described in the last volume of David Bick's The Old Metal Mines of Mid-Wales. Actually in Lower Palaeozoic strata, it was suggested coal left from limeburning led to the idea there were Coal Measures strata in the area. There are numerous references to explorations for coal in Lower Palaeozoic strata in N/Mid wales before the geology was really understood, but as well as Presteigne there were later schemes for coal mining (I think 1870's) near Pwllheli & elsewhere where as far as I know there is little likelyhood of finding Carboniferous strata.
Alasdair Neill.
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