Crumpmeadow


Coal Mine
Worked from 1824 to 1929

Jan 1st, 2024 from NMRS by Buddle-Bot

Jul 11th, 2025 by BertyBasset


Forest of Dean
Cinderford
51.8230896, -2.5257471
SO 6386 1396
Private Land
177m
#20,993

The site originally featured three shafts. Shaft No. 3 reached a surface elevation (Ordnance Datum) of 571 feet, with workings extending to several coal seams:

  • Twenty Inch seam at 486 feet
  • Lowery seam at 540 feet
  • Starkey seam at 571 feet
  • Rocky seam at 637 feet
  • Churchway High Delf seam at 696 feet

Today, all that remains of the site is a pond.

  • 1855-1865 Aaron Gould
  • 1869-1870 Aaron Gould & Co.
  • 1880 Bilsen & Crump Meadow Coal Co. Ltd

This was once a highly productive coal mine, yielding over 50,000 tons in the year 1870 alone. Despite its profitability, the mine was eventually forced to close due to water ingress from the nearby, now-closed Trafalgar Colliery.

Publications (6)

  • Anstis 1999 p 16, 60, 82, 90, 99, 105, 106, 109, 110
  • Lawrence p 46
  • Mountjoy et al 1971 p 6
  • Oldham, Tony (1998); Mines of the Forest of Dean; 86 pages
  • Phelps 1984 p 41
  • Trotter p 52

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