Forest of Dean Local History Society
New Fancy - An Introduction
New Fancy is a Forestry Commission amenity site, which is located at the site of the former coal mine of the same name. Read More
New Fancy - Dates of Operation
The Protheroe family appear to have had interests in the New Fancy gale (a gale is an area of a coal seam or iron ore vein) since the early 1800’s. Read More
New Fancy - Life at Work
You might expect that working conditions and safety at work would have improved for miners by the late 1920’s when compared with previous times. However this was not necessarily so! Read More
New Fancy - The Closure and Afterwards
Nothing much happened until about 1960, when the development of the Llanwern steelworks in South Wales meant that there was demand for huge quantities of shale to stabilise the marshy... Read More
New Fancy - Visiting the Site
New Fancy amenity site is open daily to visitors between 8am and dusk. There is ample parking available on the site. Read More
The New Fancy Geomap
At New Fancy you can see the unique Geomap, which celebrates both the geological and the industrial history of the Forest of Dean. Read More