Tingle’s Iron Pit, marked on the 6inch OS Map Gloucester 31NE, almost obliterated (1927) only a trace remains, 100 yards north of the radio mast. It lies a quarter of a mile north north west of Edgehills Lodge. There are traces of outcrop workings a mile to the south. Tingles Iron mine worked the Drybrook Sandstone vein and not the Crease limestone iron vein. Remains of a small filled shaft exists at NGR 660 162. Nicholls’ gives outputs as 548 tons in 1864 and 405 tons in 1865.
Publications (4)
Nicholls' p 64
Oldham, Tony (1998); Mines of the Forest of Dean; 86 pages
Oldham, Tony (1998); Mines of the Forest of Dean; 86 pages