Places and People Forest of Dean
- About the Forest of Dean
- Abenhall, Gloucestershire
- Anchor Inn, Lydbrook
- Ariconium, Herefordshire
- Arthur and Edward Colliery
- Bigsweir, Gloucestershire
- Bishopswood, Herefordshireshire
- Bixslade (Bicslade)
- Blakeney, Gloucestershire
- Bloomery (definition)
- Bradley House
- Bream, Gloucestershire
- Bullo Pill, Gloucestershire
- Cannop Colliery
- Cinderford, Gloucestershire
- Clearwell, Gloucestershire
- Coleford, Gloucestershire
- Collieries
- Crawshay, Henry
- Danby Lodge
- Darkhill Brick, Colliery + Ironworks
- Dates in the Forest of Dean
- Dean Forest (Mines) Act 1838
- Dean Forest Railway
- Dean Forest (Reafforestation)
Act 1668 - The Dean Forest Riots
- Dean Hall, Littledean
- Dean Heritage Centre
- Dean Road
- Drybrook, Gloucestershire
- Eastern United Colliery
- Fairplay Iron Mine
- Findall Iron Mine
- Flaxley, Gloucestershire
- Forest of Dean Central Railway
- Free Miners
- Green Bottom
- Gunns Mill
- The Haie (house + tunnel)
- Harvey, F. W.
- Hopewell Engine Colliery
- Horlick, James and William
- Kings Lodge
- Lightmoor Colliery
- Littledean, Gloucestershire
- Lower Redbrook, Gloucestershire
- Lydbrook, Gloucestershire
- Lydney, Gloucestershire
- Mining and Forest Terms
- Mitcheldean, Gloucestershire
- Mushet, David and Robert
- Nelson Colliery
- Newland, Gloucestershire
- Newnham, Gloucestershire
- Northern United Colliery
- Offas Dyke
- Parkend, Gloucestershire
- Pillowell, Gloucestershire
- Protheroe, Edward
- Pubs of the Forest of Dean
- Purton, Gloucestershire
- Redbrook, Gloucestershire
- Ruardean, Gloucestershire
- Severn and Wye Railway Co.
- Severn Bridge Railway
- Shakemantle Iron Mine
- Speech House
- Speech House Hill Colliery
- St Briavels Castle
- St Briavels, May-pole
- Strip-and at-it Colliery
- Symonds Yat
- Teague, James
- Teague, Moses
- Trafalgar Colliery
- Tramroad
- True Blue Colliery
- Union Colliery
- Upper and Middle Forge
- Upper Lydbrook Station
- Upper Mill, Edge Hills
- Upper Redbrook
- Verderer (definition)
- Verderers' Court
- Welshbury Hill Fort
- Westbury Brook Iron Mine
- Whitecliff Furnace
- Whitecliff House
- Whitecliff Quarry
- Whitecroft
- Whitecross Manor
- Wigpool, Gloucestershire
- Wintour, Sir John
Dark Hill Ironworks
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Built by David Mushet in 1818, it was constructed specifically to produce a high-quality iron by direct smelting. The works were transferred to his three sons in 1845, but they did not work well together. However Robert Mushet, as manager, did oversee the production of the first successful steel rails for the railway. These were laid at Derby Station but Robert Mushet ultimately lost his patent, partly due to a lack of funding. Dark Hill BrickworksThese were owned by David Mushet in 1841. Messers Wanklyn and Grindle made produced bricks here, or nearby, from about 1855 to 1900. Dark Hill CollieryRecords show a colliery here being sold to John Hawkins in 1813. The gale was granted to David Mushet in 1841 and he acquired the Shutcastle gale next door in 1847. Working the Coleford High Delf Seam, coal was transported by the nearby Severn and Wye Railway Milkwall (Coleford) Branch and later, after 1875, by the Fetterhill siding. The colliery was put up for auction following David Mushet, as were Shutcastle and Darkhill Ironworks, but failure to find a buyer meant the businesses were inherited by his three sons. Full control finally fell to David Mushet junior. The colliery was only mined intermittently with only 4,200 tons being produced in 1880. It was purchased by Thomas Bennet Brain in 1899, but mining from the gale all but finished following his death in 1914. |
