The story of coal mining at Presteigne was written up by David Bick
in Issue 2 of Archive, back in June 1994. Boring for coal was carried
out on Folly Farm. A drift was also driven. Quite a number of
illustrations.
Ian Pope
p.s. copies still available.
On 25 Jul 2007, at 20:13, Mike Gill wrote:
> Can anyone please confirm the existence of the following coal mine:-
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> Folly Park Colliery, Presteign in Radnorshire, Not working in 1915.
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> Surely that is well north of the South-Wales coalfield. Was it an
> outlier of Coal Measures or a Limestone Coal?
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> Regards,
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> Mike Gill
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Ian Pope
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