Old Wood Colliery, near Yate
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Old Wood Colliery, near Yate
Image: © Chris Allen Taken: 10 Sep 2016
A privately owned site that the South Gloucestershire Mines Research Group opens occasionally. Today was Heritage Open Days. This range of buildings incorporates a wall from the original heapstead and also a shaft dating from 1869. There is the entrance to a drift nearby.
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Image Location
Latitude
51.564511
Longitude
-2.434191