WRT Earlier Richard Baker post;
Gloucester Citizen Gloucestershire, England 10 Nov 1902
CINDERFORD. The death occurred, at an advanced age on Saturday at Cinderford Tump, of Mr. Richard Baker, a collier, and an old and highly respected inhabitant of the town. For several years he shared the representation of the Cinderford Ward of East Dean.

Does anyone know where this is ?.

My mother still lives in my childhood home in Cinderford, in Parragate which runs parallel with the High Street so below where Lidls(the old Red & White bus garage) now is, just along from where Bilson School was. Her house was built in 1962 on the site of some old mining cottages. When we were kids it overlooked down onto the "Green" and past that onto Bilson School Playing Field. There was a raised "plateau" at one end of the Green and right opposite the School playground which was called the Tump, we built our Guy Fawkes bonfires on it.
Could this be the same Tump, or were there several ?.

I presume the Tump was created from the spoil from the old mine workings that had long since closed when her house was built, I guess there were perhaps more than one Tump in Cinderford ?. My parents love gardening and are still regularly finding small lumps of coal in their soil.

The whole Green/Tump/playing field area to the west of Parragate Road was built over with council housing in the early 80s, now called Cedardean etc. At the time the logic of building over underlying mine workings was debated. I recall the gateway off Parragate Rd into the School Playing field was always boggy. This is immediately below the Tump (where the "C" of "Cedardean" is shown on this map
http://www.google.com/maps?q=CEDARDEAN, GL14+2XW&hl=en&ie=UTF8&z=16

My father told me the house built there should survive an earthquake: apparently they gave up digging for solid foundations when the hole was so deep the JCB nearly got trapped, so they gave up and pumped in thousands of gallons of concrete leaving a huge raft to build on. 20 years before this I was walking along Parragate (so abt 80 yards North of this) to Bilson School one morning to find a huge hole had "appeared" in the road overnight, the full width of the road and very deep, again due to the workings below !