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Results: 76676

Name Location County/State Country Sources ID
Wick Ochre Mine Gloucestershire England Mineral Statistics 1888,1891-1893. 14871
Wick Rocks Ochre Mine Winford Gloucestershire England List of Mines - openworks 1892. Mineral Statistics 1889-1893. 14872
Wigpool Mine Mitcheldean Gloucestershire England Bick, D.E., 1980. The Old Industries of Dean. The Pound House, Newent Glos, p.40,41,72. Bowen, C., 2007. Digging in Wigpool Iron Mine discovers ancient drainage cave. Royal Forest of Dean Caving Club Newsletter 133, p.18-19. Bowen, C., 2009. An interim report on Wigpool Cave: a syncline-guided, palaeo drainage cave in the Forest of Dean limestone basin, UK. Cave and Karst Science, British Cave Research Association Vol. 36 No.2, p.59-62. First Report from the Select Committee on the Woods, Forests, and Land Revenues of the Crown 1848 Parliamentary Papers 1848, p.358,359. Twenty Fourth Report of the Commissioners of Her Majesty's Woods, Forests, Land Revenues, Works and Buildings 1847 Parliamentary Papers 1847, p.69. Twenty-sixth Report of the Commissioners of Her Majesty's Woods, Forests, Land Revenues, Works and Buildings 1849 Parliamentary Papers 1849, p.86. The Thirty-Third Report of the Commissioners of Her Majesty's Woods, Forests, Land Revenues. Parliamentary Papers 1855, p.105. The Thirty-Sixth Report of the Commissioners of Her Majesty's Woods, Forests, Land Revenues 30th June 1858. Parliamentary Papers 1857-1858, p.88. The Forty-First Report of the Commissioners of Her Majesty's Woods, Forests, Land Revenues 29th June 1863. Parliamentary Papers 1863, p.113. The Fifty-First Report of the Commissioners of Her Majesty's Woods, Forests, Land Revenues 30th July 1873. Parliamentary Papers 1873, p.70. The Fifty-Fifth Report of the Commissioners of Her Majesty's Woods, Forests, Land Revenues 29th June 1877. Parliamentary Papers 1877, p.63. Elliott, J., 2014. Forest mines access. Descent 238, p.10. Elliott, J., 2014. Police check. Descent 238, p.10. Hart, C., 1971. The Industrial History of Dean with an Introduction to its Industrial Archaeology. David & Charles, Newton Abbot p.231,234,235,242,243. List of Iron Mines 1865-1874. List of Mines 1883-1886,1918,1920-1929. Mineral Statistics 1865-1867,1869-1874,1882-1885,1911-1912. Mines (underground workings). Return of the length in miles and yards of underground workings and passages in some of the principal collieries and metalliferous mines in England and Wales. House of Commons Parliamentary Papers1881 (446), p.7. MJ 1871, p.267 MJ 1872, p.3. MJ 1874, p.322,609 MJ 1876, p.371 Oldham, T., & Jones, K., 1992. The Caves of the South Eastern Outcrop and Caves and Mines in the Forest of Dean, p.67. Reports of the Inspectors of Mines to Her Majesty's Secretary of State for the Year 1873, p.85. Reports of the Inspectors of Mines to Her Majesty's Secretary of State for the Year 1874, p.129. Reports of the Inspectors of Mines to Her Majesty's Secretary of State for the Year 1875, p.136. Reports of the Inspectors of Mines to Her Majesty's Secretary of State for the Year 1876, p.349. Reports of the Inspectors of Mines to Her Majesty's Secretary of State for the Year 1877, p.388. Reports of the Inspectors of Mines to Her Majesty's Secretary of State for the Year 1878, p.437. Reports of the Inspectors of Mines to Her Majesty's Secretary of State for the Year 1879, p.551. Reports of the Inspectors of Mines to Her Majesty's Secretary of State for the Year 1880, p.510,512. Reports of the Inspectors of Mines to Her Majesty's Secretary of State for the Year 1881, p.623. Reports of the Inspectors of Mines to Her Majesty's Secretary of State for the Year 1882, p.524. Reports of the Inspectors of Mines to Her Majesty's Secretary of State for the Year 1883, p.296. Reports of the Inspectors of Mines List of Haematite Mines 1873-1883. Report of Secretary of Mines 1923. Sibly, T.F., 1927. Iron Ores (Contd). The Haematites of the Forest of Dean and South Wales. Memoirs of the Geological Survey, Special Reports on the Mineral Resources of Great Britain Vol. X . HMSO, p.15-16,23,28-32. Trotter, F.M., 1942. Geology of the Forest of Dean Coal and Iron Ore Field. Memoirs of the Geological Survey HMSO, p.63-64. Or: Wigpool Belt Mine. See also: Bailey Level. Chastan Syndicate Ltd. Injunction Mine. The Lydney and Wigpool Iron Ore Company Ltd. 14873
Wigpool Belt Gloucestershire England MJ 1876, p.371 14874
Witch Pit Gloucestershire England Fourth and Fifth Reports of the Dean Forest Commissioners to the Lords Commissioners of the Treasury 1835 Parliamentary Papers 1835, p.34,35 14875
Wookey Iron Ore Mine Bristol Gloucestershire England Mineral Statistics 1887-1893. 14876
Wooley's Level Iron Mine Gloucestershire England The Thirty-Ninth Report of the Commissioners of Her Majesty's Woods, Forests, Land Revenues 29th June 1861. Parliamentary Papers 1861, p.101. 14877
Wyche Wylder's Pit Gloucestershire England Fourth and Fifth Reports of the Dean Forest Commissioners to the Lords Commissioners of the Treasury 1835 Parliamentary Papers 1835, p.41. 14878
Yate (Strontium) Gloucestershire England List of Mines - openworks 1892. 14879
Yate (Strontium) Gloucestershire England List of Mines - openworks 1892. 14880