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Frampton Cotterell Burgess Pit

Approx 150 metres east of St Peters Church, Frampton Cotterell.

The mine, approximately 500 yards east of St Peters Church, was worked for Haematite ore using four shafts each in excess of 400ft deep between the years 1862 -1874. There were at least 4 levels being worked down to a depth of 120 yards. It closed in 1875 due to flooding and the property was afterwards acquired by The South Gloucestershire Water Company who pumped for local water supply until 1970.

Alternative Names: Frampton Cotterell Iron Mine

Notes: Iron ore has been worked in Frampton Cotterell by several previous generations and the Great Survey of 1086 recorded that that the people of that parish paid their tithe taxes in pigs of iron rather than the usual coinage of the realm.

The Colliery Guardian Nov 1874 recorded that "a very valuable haematite ore, of high specific gravity, and which is said to yield as much metallic iron as the best kidney-ore of Cumberland" The ore was transported by rail to either Seend near Westbury in Wiltshire or Barry in South Wales.