Remains of Oxleys Colliery (Disused)
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interesting place, coal mine, Grade II Listed (UK)
The shaft here is 420 feet deep and is uncapped.
(It would be worth referring to the comments made in respect of Farmborough 'Colliery' some 8 miles to the north west, as this venture at Buckland Dinham cannot be reasonably described as a 'colliery' at all.
After much expenditure in sinking the shaft to its eventual depth, not a seam of coal was proven, so it was abandoned as something of an expensive 'white elephant' !!!)
The chimney is Grade II listed
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An except from Frome museum archives
Oxley and Co.
This engineering company was founded by James Oxley. In 1851 he was aged 27 [1824]and described as a vat maker and maltster employing 25 men.Cuzner (c.1868) described Oxley & Co. of Welshmill as: “vat makers, brewers’ engineers, and coppersmiths; manufacturers of vats and backs, mashing machines, pumps, malt machinery, steam engines and driving gear, brewing coppers, refrigerators, barm presses, cask drying and purifying apparatus, valves and cocks, pipes etc.”. James Oxley “just finished the erection of twelve vats for Messrs. Guinness & Co., capable of containing 30,000 barrels, and Messrs. Guinness are erecting another new vat house to hold twenty more vats of the same size, by the same maker. These vats are for the Dublin porter trade, which is considerably increasing.”
Among his enterprises was sinking two disused mining shafts at Buckland Dinham in an attempt to find coal. Valuable seams were found but almost from the very onset the workings were flooded with water, and engineering skills were powerless to combat the force of nature. He also found coal in the vicinity of Trudoxhill.
(It would be worth referring to the comments made in respect of Farmborough 'Colliery' some 8 miles to the north west, as this venture at Buckland Dinham cannot be reasonably described as a 'colliery' at all.
After much expenditure in sinking the shaft to its eventual depth, not a seam of coal was proven, so it was abandoned as something of an expensive 'white elephant' !!!)
The chimney is Grade II listed
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An except from Frome museum archives
Oxley and Co.
This engineering company was founded by James Oxley. In 1851 he was aged 27 [1824]and described as a vat maker and maltster employing 25 men.Cuzner (c.1868) described Oxley & Co. of Welshmill as: “vat makers, brewers’ engineers, and coppersmiths; manufacturers of vats and backs, mashing machines, pumps, malt machinery, steam engines and driving gear, brewing coppers, refrigerators, barm presses, cask drying and purifying apparatus, valves and cocks, pipes etc.”. James Oxley “just finished the erection of twelve vats for Messrs. Guinness & Co., capable of containing 30,000 barrels, and Messrs. Guinness are erecting another new vat house to hold twenty more vats of the same size, by the same maker. These vats are for the Dublin porter trade, which is considerably increasing.”
Among his enterprises was sinking two disused mining shafts at Buckland Dinham in an attempt to find coal. Valuable seams were found but almost from the very onset the workings were flooded with water, and engineering skills were powerless to combat the force of nature. He also found coal in the vicinity of Trudoxhill.
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Coordinates: 51°15'20"N 2°22'2"W
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- Frome Valley 31 km
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- St Giles Estate 47 km
- Crichel House Estate 49 km
- The Beech Avenue 51 km
- New Forest National Park 52 km
- Buckland Wood 1.8 km
- Wadbury Camp 1.9 km
- Wadbury Valley 1.9 km
- Hardington Wood 2.2 km
- Orchardleigh Wood 2.2 km
- Whatley Bottom 2.7 km
- Orchardleigh Park 3 km
- Orchardleigh Golf Club 3.4 km
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