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Dist:0.2km<br/>Or should that be Coleford? It isn't really a cross ways either, more of a T junction. At least one inhabitant seem a little puzzled. If the fish and chips taste as good as they smelled, who cares?
©Maurice Pullin
Dist:0.2km<br/>Facing Church Street. Next to Coleford Gospel Hall. Opposite the Fish Bar. All you could want for body and soul.
©Maurice Pullin
Dist:0.3km<br/>Another village in the North Somerset coalfield. Closed pits and limestone quarries abound in this area.
©Maurice Pullin
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©ChurchCrawler
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Dist:0.6km<br/>A Christian and heraldic symbol, the eagle has been used as in inn sign since the fifteenth century.
©Trish Steel
Dist:0.6km<br/>The inn has appearance of being very run down, but it was open for business.
©Trish Steel
Dist:0.7km<br/>The main part of the village is behind us.
©Maurice Pullin
Dist:0.7km<br/>In the 18th and 19th centuries Coleford was a mining village. Now its main industries are farming and quarrying of Mendip limestone. "Apart from agriculture, the main industry in recent history (between 1700 - 1900), was coal mining. Originally a cottage industry, demand grew with the industrial revolution. The main pits in the area were Coalbarton pit, which closed in 1869 following a firedamp explosion which killed 9 miners, and Newbury and Mackintosh pits. Mackintosh opened in 1867 and closed in 1919, due to a failure of the pit cage rope. Suitable rope was in short supply because of the first word war. It was not possible to bring up the pit ponies without the cage working, so they had to be killed down in the mine. Newbury pit closed around 1927. Other pits in the area were at Vobster and Mells." The above was copied from: http://colefordsomerset.org/History/index.html
©Maurice Pullin
Dist:0.7km<br/>Built in 1865, some time after the abandonment of the Dorset & Somerset Canal, which ran in cutting to the left.
©Martin Bodman
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Dist:0.8km<br/>An aqueduct built as part of the Dorset & Somerset Canal, which was begun in 1797 but never completed. ‘Aqueduct’ was a rather new-fangled word for the Somerset colliers of the time and got corrupted to ‘Hucky Duck’. A public footpath is indicated this way,but turns right just under the bridge and before the gates. ahead runs onto private property at this point
©Martin Bodman
Dist:0.8km<br/>An aqueduct built as part of the Dorset & Somerset Canal, which was begun in 1797 but never completed. ‘Aqueduct’ was a rather new-fangled word for the Somerset colliers and got corrupted to ‘Hucky Duck’. Only a generation ago I recall a retired miner in the Seven Stars in Timsbury avowing ‘Not in a twelvemonth ..’; he would never stoop to using the word ‘year’. A part of the world where change comes slowly
©Martin Bodman
Dist:0.8km<br/>Photo taken 2004 before renovations.
©Colin Vosper
Dist:0.8km<br/>A single-track street threads past cottages once home to miners, though one or two appear to have been converted from pubs or ale houses
©Martin Bodman

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