Entry D5947 looks promising (General)

by slowhands , proud of his ancient Dean Forest roots, Tuesday, August 02, 2005, 11:56 (7045 days ago) @ shepway

Gloucestershire Records Office

Level Collection
DocumentRef D5947
Title Forestry Commission
Date (1668)-2003
Description Free miners' applications 1838-1956; photocopied register of free miners' applications 1838-1996 and free quarrymen 1838-1991; index to freeminers' applications; awards under the Dean Forest Mines Act (1838) 1841; gale books 1811-1838; 1842-1846; registers of applications for gales 1838-1933; original applications for gales 1838-1958; registers of rejected gale applications 1895-c.1934; registers of transfers of ownership of mines 1839-1924; records of stone quarry transfers 1873-1901; indexes to gales c.1908-1958 and list of gale titles (1896)-1996; lease and licence books 1847-1914 (with some plans); accounts 1841-1982; gale rent ledgers 1789-1841; coal and iron mine ledgers and other accounts 1841-1938; half-yearly schedules of coal and iron ore raisings 1860-1964; surface damage award books 1843-1982 (with some plans 1871-1982); St Briavels Castle estate and household accounts 1875-1894; plans of coal and iron workings 1835-c.1958; map of West Dean township 1859; in- and out-letters 1911-1933; reports of Royal Commissioners and Parliamentary Committees 1861-1893, 1927; Highmeadow estate accounts 1871-1942; samples of mine law court records (1668)-1834 [from series of records held at the Public Record Office]; records relating to the administration of the manors of Staunton, English Bicknor and St Briavels 1794-1893; 'Laws and Customs of the Mines in the Forest of Dean' 1900; various reports 19th-20th cents.*Coleford Railway: section drawing 1883; *plan of Westbury Brook abandoned iron mine, Mitcheldean, 2003; *plans of collieries and Commission land in the Forest of Dean, 19th-20th centuries