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Hopewell Colliery

288 Reviews

#1 of 15 things to do in Coleford

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Speech House Road | Cannop Hill, Coleford GL16 7EG, England

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“A unique experience with a personable, knowledgable guide in a beautiful location.”

This is a lovely tour for older children and adults who can cope with bending to avoid the low... read more

Reviewed 2 weeks ago

SnappyBrit

Forest of Dean, United Kingdom

“Incredible”

We visited today as a last thing to do in the area. What an incredible tour. Has an insight of a... read more

Reviewed 3 weeks ago

Elizabeth P

Great Yarmouth, United Kingdom

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The museum is small but worth a good look around, and the visit down the coal mine itself gives a marvellous insight into how a small drift mine is constructed and operated.

Rich has worked the mines and was very knowledgeable, great with the kids, encouraged questions and generally gave a great tour.

So glad we did the tour - the tour guide was very informative, answered all our questions knowledgeably and made the tour interesting with all the information and facts.

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Speech House Road | Cannop Hill, Coleford GL16 7EG, England

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SnappyBrit

Forest of Dean, United Kingdom

3021

Reviewed 2 weeks ago

A unique experience with a personable, knowledgable guide in a beautiful location.

This is a lovely tour for older children and adults who can cope with bending to avoid the low ceiling and safely handle steep and mildly slippy surfaces. We arrived in perfect time (absolutely no waiting) to join a tour with Rich. You enter through...More

Date of experience: August 2019

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Elizabeth P

Great Yarmouth, United Kingdom

Reviewed 3 weeks ago via mobile

Incredible

We visited today as a last thing to do in the area. What an incredible tour. Has an insight of a mine and my girls really enjoyed it. The gentleman who showed us around was full of knowledge and made the tour enjoyable, fun and...More

Date of experience: August 2019

Thank Elizabeth P

Pati G

Reviewed 3 weeks ago

Unique experience!

Best day out ever, Richard (tour guide and owner) is a legend! He made our day super especial! Yesterday, we took our 12 year and 14 year old children, they loved it! It was fascinating, informative and lots of fun! Hopewell Colliery is a must!...More

Date of experience: August 2019

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jujowen

Forest of Dean, United Kingdom

192

Reviewed 3 weeks ago via mobile

A great experience!

One of the best things to do in the Forest! Had a very informative tour of Hopewell Colliery, and Dave, our tour guide, was able to share his knowledge about the mining industry in the Forest of Dean more widely. Very reasonably priced, and the...More

Date of experience: August 2019

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Rachel F

Reviewed 4 weeks ago

Forest visit

My grandchildren visiting loved going into the mine, Ray was a very interesting and informative guide. It gives a good guide on how coal mining was done years ago and ongoing into today. Well worth visiting and the cafe food is lovely too.

Date of experience: August 2019

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CET88

Leighton Buzzard, United Kingdom

318

Reviewed August 9, 2019 via mobile

Fascinating, cannot recommend enough

This place is fantastic. The tour is just over an hour long and is absolutely fascinating. The mine is still working today and sells coal to the local community and employs a couple of miners. The actual miners will do the tour and it’s an...More

Date of experience: August 2019

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Stuartmcl60

Horsham, United Kingdom

12931

Reviewed August 9, 2019 via mobile

A fascinating place to visit

We were really impressed with this place - it gave us a fantastic insight into mining in the Forest of Dean. Our guide, Rich, was excellent - really knowledgable as he still mines today. Every aspect of mining was clearly explained including the relative dangers...More

Date of experience: August 2019

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Mervyn S

Gloucester, United Kingdom

4416

Reviewed August 6, 2019

Sunday Lunch at the cafe.

My first visit to the Hopewell Colliery Cafe, and I was not disappointed, I had the Roast Beef (more than enough) this was served on the plate with two Yorkshire pudding three roast potatoes a couple of parsnips and plenty of gravy, also served separately...More

Date of experience: August 2019

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scottpants

Gloucester.

3735

Reviewed August 4, 2019

A little treasure in the forest

What a great tour. Richard is a great guide who engaged with everyone in our group and we really enjoyed hearing about the mine and experiencing it for ourselves. Coming out of the gale and into the forest, you would not even know it was...More

Date of experience: August 2019

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464rachels

Worthing, United Kingdom

8560

Reviewed August 4, 2019 via mobile

Late afternoon visit

Went on the 2pm tour down the mine, fitted out with helmet and torch.. amazing, factual tour.. best afternoon out!! Be aware that you go 150ft below ground and entering the pit and of course exiting is very steep and if tall like ourselves you...More