Dean Heritage Centre

Step out into the woodland to experience the lives of charcoal burners, traditional cottage-dwellers, and free miners.

Indoors the museum tells the history of a beautiful Forest formed by an industrial past. It reveals a unique culture which visitors will find hard to forget.

Enjoy a range of homemade cakes, meals and drinks in our cafe overlooking the mill pond. Explore a Victorian Foresters' cottage, free mine entrance and charcoal burners' camp. An impressive waterwheel an beam engine are also on show.

For families, dressing up clothes, craft activities, and trails around the museum provide plenty to occupy everyone - not to mention our brilliant adventure playground!

Our shop stocks a wide range of gifts, from small pocket-money items, to the stunning range of work of local artists including Dean Oak Cooperative, Mary Rose Young, and Victor Hugo. We also sell charcoal produced on site during our traditional charcoal burns.