John Winter (Royalist)
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Sir John Winter also spelt Wintour and Wyntour was an English ironmaster and landowner at Lydney in Gloucestershire, who was an ardent supporter of Charles I during the English Civil War.
The River Wye below Wintour's Leap, where Sir John is said to have escaped his enemies
Forest of Dean Coalfield
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The Forest of Dean Coalfield, underlying the Forest of Dean, in west Gloucestershire, is one of the smaller coalfields in the British Isles, although intensive mining during the 19th and 20th centurie
The 'Freeminer Brass' - a symbol of the freeminers' authority above the Crown
The Roll of Honour sculpture at New Fancy, commemorating miners who were killed or injured in the mines and quarries of the Forest of Dean
Foxes Bridge Colliery, ca. 1900
Lightmoor Colliery's engine house