Don't really care for the house itself, but I wouldn't mind a mine in the back garden!

Buckshaft mine apparently.

http://www.primelocation.com/uk-property-for-sale/details/id/CIND4167653 



Roly

If it is Buckshaft (Buckshraft) then it is an SSSI site.

The mine is a very important hibernation location for greater horseshoe bats within the Forest of Dean and supports up to two thirds of the juvenile population from the Dean Hall SSSI in winter. Research has also demonstrated that greater horseshoe bats from the other Gloucestershire breeding roost at Woodchester Park SSSI which is at least 15 kilometres away come to the mine to hibernate.
The wide range of underground micro-climates sought by the bats are dependent on the ventilation, humidity and temperature of the mine system. This is, in part, influenced by the surface woodlands which act as wind breaks. The woodlands also provide feeding habitats for the bats and are important in ensuring a readily available food source of insects. This feature is particularly important in spring when the bats need to build fat reserves quickly to ensure a successful breeding season.

No doodling in the mine. I would concentrate on the house.:)

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Is it a coal or iron mine? :angel:

Must be a nightmare to get house insurance.or sell the property

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Why?its going away from the house.

so is the 200ft shaft in my mates garden and he cant get insurance.shame he didnt know about it till after he bught it.one day the lawn just dropd leving a deep hole

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But Shafts are different,they work Coal in different directions from Pit bottom,unlike a Drift,which is usually driven in seam,but not always of course.

maybe but from what i was told insurance companys dont like old mine workings because of the unsertunty of posible floding or ground movement.im not saying your wrong thow

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several of the Combe Down entrances were in peoples' gardens, a few of them have been preserved as bat habitats. The paperwork involved in establishing that the mines are stabilised has been immense.

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Buckshaft is (or was) an Iron mine.

🙂

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The engine house of Trevoole mine is in the back garden of a bungalow that is obscured in this photo. The photo is deceptive, the stack is actually in the garden next door as you can see if you look at ICLOk's photo in the album.
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Regarding insurance. Would not a mining survey come with the property which I would have thought would have covered that.

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Even better how about a mine shaft in your lounge floor.

Three years ago one of the Great Wheal Vor shafts opened in the lounge of the 70's bungalow unknowingly built over it at Carleen. (Really did, this is not a wind up.)

Shaft has been capped, a new carpet laid and the bungalow is occupied and looks very nice.
Puts a hole(!) new aspect to asking the mother in law to drop in when she is passing.

Perhaps a nice feature would have been a glass floor and LED lights at shaft bottom.

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Or fill it with water and have an under floor fish tank.

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There was a good photo of it on Carnon's website, but it doesn't seem to be there anymore.

I gather there was an exciting story with regards to it's discovery. (cornish urban myth? ) Bloke working on skirting, drops hammer..... huge boom about 4 seconds later.

Pretty sure that this would have been plausible given the photos. Shaft took up a whole room.

Looking at the old 6" maps, there are a LOT of houses in the Redruth/St Day area sat right on top of shafts. There is one outside St Day where a bungalow is sat right on a monster engine shaft. I'd like to see if I could look up it at some point......

Puts a hole(!) new aspect to asking the mother in law to drop in when she is passing.

:lol:

Or fill it with water and have an under floor fish tank.

Sharks! 😉

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I was thinking of Piranhas in case the mother-in-law came around. They aren't quite so particular.

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Is there a log or list anywhere of occurances of shafts opening up in the UK?
My impression is that it is becoming slightly less common in Cornwall with more capping and mining surveys.

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Not sure if they getting less common or not. In last 3 years we've had 3 shafts opening in peoples gardens within mile and half radius of us here at Godolphin, including 2 inside the house's structure itself. There have been others in fields etc but they tend to get filled quickly with 'don't ask' and don't make the news.

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I have a large shaft in my field near par, a house a few hundreds yards away on an estate one of the houses was sold approx 3 years ago, there mining survey was fine but it flagged the property opposite them as being sat on workings (not sure what) So that house is having to be lifted and capped/underpinned.
Its suspicious that a developer did the whole estate minus the 2 adjoining plots that these houses are sat on! ::)

A bungalow 1/2 mile away had to have its porch area capped after a digger started sinking in to it during renovation work.

It's not that uncommon around this area either.

A number of mines in gardens, under gardens and under houses in Derbyshire and Staffordshire.
Matlock Bath has always had stories of cavers emerging from strange places and domestic products (various) finding their way underground. There is a house in Matlock Bath, which carries the name of the mine it stands on (but not the name it is currently known by), with a shaft under it. And of course there is Riber Mine, with it's unfortunate history.