22 July 1821  Oaken Level granted to Aaron Hale

22 March 1831  Churchway Level granted to Benjamin Gwilliam and paid to March 1824 by Cully then by Gwilliam and Butler

July 1833  A payment of £7. 7s. 0d. made by James Cully and afterwards by B. Gwilliam and Butler.

March 1841  The two gales awarded to John Matthewman.
Oaken Level; John Matthewman of Exmouth Street, Clerkenwell, gentleman, claiming under Free Miners, to Oaken Level and Churchway Level (as assignee of a lease for a term of 1,000 years from 28 March 1831, granted by Benjamin Gwilliam, a Free Miner).
that the said gales, or parts thereof are subject to a mortgage to William Edward Spencer
All that tract of coal in all the veins on the Coleford rise.

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16 September 1841  Thomas Matthewman applying to open an air shaft in Russells inclosure.  Works at a stand for want of air.
Chimney to be built above pit to prevent accidents and elevate the smoke above the young trees.

F3 286  Jn. Matthewman.  Outputs:
 1841   271 tons
 1842   540
 1843   657
 1845   590
 1846 1607

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22 May 1848  Matthewman making application for two further air shafts in the Inclosure to open Oaken & Churchway Colliery

2 November 1859  John Nash and Wm. Henderson as proprietors of the Oaken & Churchway Level Colliery apply for lease of land one acre adjoining the colliery to dig and get clay for brickmaking.  Between the Severn & Wye and the Cannop Brook to north of Oaken Level.
John Nash York Lodge, application granted.
Wished to burn bricks in clamps, sell raw clay etc. then fill in the excavated area with colliery waste.

 9 March 1864  J. Nash now bankrupt, interest vested in J. Wintle and L. Winterbotham. Lease.

1878 Forfeited

F3 931 OAKEN & CHURCHWAY No. 2 COLLIERY
Oaken Level close to Coleford Junction, Oaken Slope below White Lea Pits.

1905  Surface area 96 acres, workable seams;-
 Smith Coal,  2' 5"  partially worked  92 acres unworked   Lowery 2' 8" exhausted
 Rockey 1' 4" partially worked 64 acres unworked
 Starkey 1' 9"         "              " 63      "               "
 Churchway 1' 4"         "              " 96      "               "

The seams are cut by a level cross measures drift driven at the southern end.  A slope also driven down at the northern end.  Workings abandoned in 1874.
Parkend Co. disposed to treat with the applicants.

9 July 1906  Granted to a committee of Free Miners led by John Morgan.  Committee granted a lease to Soloman Jones.

16 August 1907  Conveyance one-tenth share John Morgan to Henry Jones.

17 August 1907 Lease George H. Jones to G. H. Jones and others

10 December 1911  Not opened, liable to forfeiture.

30 November 1914 George J. Stephens negotiating to sell

28 February 1917 Conveyance George H. Jones and others to John Martin.

7 January 1924 Conveyance Gerald Thompson also Taylor and Thompson to the Oaken & Churchway Syndicate Ltd.

11 January 1924  Conveyance John Martin to Sydney Taylor and George H. Jones

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12 November 1926  'DFG' Long report of collier killed in surface workings.

18 June 1929  Conveyance S. Taylor and another to Oaken & Churchway Syndicate

28 May 1929  Conveyance Oaken & Churchway Syndicate to A. W. Brown.
Conveyance A. W. Brown to J. H. Elsmore and others.
24 August 1944  Not worked for some years.
Alongside Speech House - New Fancy road on Speech House side.

22 May 1945  Registered owners John Henry Elsmore and James Oliver Elsmore