The Forest of Dean is a geographical, historical and cultural region in the western part of the county of Gloucestershire, England. It forms a roughly...
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The Forest of Dean Central Railway was a mineral railway line designed to connect certain collieries in the central part of the Forest of Dean to a new...
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The Dean Forest Railway is a 4+1⁄4-mile (6.8 km) long heritage railway that runs between Lydney and Parkend in the Forest of Dean, Gloucestershire. The...
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The Forest of Dean Railway was a railway company operating in Gloucestershire, England. It was formed in 1826 when the moribund Bullo Pill Railway and...
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Whitecroft & Bream railway station is a railway station on the Dean Forest Railway. The station originally opened on 23 September 1875, and closed on...
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The Mitcheldean Road and Forest of Dean Junction Railway was an independent railway company incorporated in 1871, to provide a northerly outlet for iron...
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the trackbed of the former Oxford, Worcester and Wolverhampton Railway now the South Staffordshire Railway Walk to Oaken. Leaving the railway the northerly...
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Parkend railway station is located in the village of Parkend, in the Forest of Dean, Gloucestershire. It is currently the northern terminus of the Dean Forest...
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The Severn and Wye Railway began as an early tramroad network established in the Forest of Dean to facilitate the carriage of minerals to watercourses...
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Wales Derry Central Railway, in County Londonderry, Northern Ireland East Fife Central Railway in Scotland Forest of Dean Central Railway, in Gloucestershire...
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a railway station on the Dean Forest Railway, near Lydney in the Forest of Dean, Gloucestershire. Norchard is the main station of the Dean Forest Railway...
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mile south of Lydney, and was originally called Lydney Junction, which is now the name of the nearby station on the preserved Dean Forest Railway. Lydney...
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River Thames (redirect from History of Thames Water)
(Hungerford) Railway Bridge in central London, and the railway bridges by Isambard Kingdom Brunel at Maidenhead Railway Bridge, Gatehampton Railway Bridge and...
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Marlborough, Southampton and New Forest Railway was promoted, soon renamed the Swindon, Marlborough and Andover Railway (SM&AR). With considerable support...
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Cotswold Way (category Lists of coordinates)
Estuary and Severn bridges, the meanders of the River Severn above Sharpness, the Forest of Dean, the Welsh hills of Monmouthshire and the Black Mountains...
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A38 road (category Lists of coordinates)
route of original single carriageway, with the majority of this section being upgraded between 1973 and 1974, although a small section at Dean Prior was...
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River Severn (category Rivers of the Vale of Glamorgan)
easternmost part of the Forest of Dean, entering the Severn estuary east of Blakeney. On the opposite (southeast) bank the flow of the River Cam is usurped...
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River Avon, Warwickshire (category Rivers of Gloucestershire)
also /ˈeɪvɒn/ (AY-von) in central England flows generally southwestwards and is a major left-bank and easternmost tributary of the River Severn. It is also...
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Wysis Way (category Lists of coordinates)
Kymin and into the Forest of Dean. Heading primarily eastwards, the trail goes through Hillersland before continuing through the Forest, passing through...
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Gloucester Docks (category Ports and harbours of Gloucestershire)
Gloucester Docks is a historic area of the city of Gloucester. The docks are located at the northern junction of the River Severn with the Gloucester and...
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River Avon, Bristol (category Lists of coordinates)
Avon, major roads and two railways. The Bristol Channel has a very high tidal range of 15 metres (49 ft), second only to Bay of Fundy in Eastern Canada;...
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Valley Railway (AVR) is a standard gauge heritage railway in South Gloucestershire, England, operated by a local group, the Avon Valley Railway Company...
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for the freight-only Forest of Dean Central Railway, and it was sometimes shown in timetables as "Awre Junction". The Forest of Dean line closed in 1949...
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Cotswold Airport (category Wikipedia articles in need of updating from July 2023)
movement for training aircraft. It is centrally positioned between Cheltenham, Gloucester and Swindon. The nearest railway station is at Kemble. Construction...
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opening of a new flyover The Golden Valley Line – a railway line serving a similar route List of crossings of the River Thames "Directions to Marlborough Rd/A419"...
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Gloucester and Dean Forest Railway and the South Wales Railway opened a line southwestwards from Gloucester towards the Forest of Dean, Chepstow and South...
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west of Weston-sub‑Edge, leads on to a highway with a parish boundary along it called Riknild or Icknield Street, which is crossed by the railway at Honeybourne...
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Thames and Severn Canal (category Lists of coordinates)
the compromise alignment of the Thames & Severn found itself bypassed, with income mainly generated by carriage of Forest of Dean coal to places along the...
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Statute Law (Repeals) Act 2013 (category United Kingdom Acts of Parliament 2013)
Union Railway (Abandonment) Act 1890 (53 & 54 Vict. c. xii) Severn Bridge and Forest of Dean Central Railway Company Severn Bridge and Forest of Dean Central...
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Sharpness, Gloucestershire (category Ports and harbours of Gloucestershire)
connected to the main Gloucester to Bristol railway line with its junction at the site of the former Berkeley Road railway station. The line is rarely used (if...
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