Parkend
Parkend is a village, located at the foot of the Cannop Valley, in the Royal Forest of Dean, West Gloucestershire, England, and has a history dating back to the early 17th century.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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Photo: Pauline Eccles, CC BY-SA 2.0.
- Type: Village
- Description: village in Gloucestershire, United Kingdom
- Also known as: “Parkend, Gloucestershire”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Parkend railway station and The Fountain Inn.
Parkend railway station
Railway station
Photo: Mattbuck, CC BY-SA 3.0.
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 Railway.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Whitecroft and Pillowell.
Whitecroft
Village
Photo: Nicholas Mutton, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Whitecroft is a village in the Forest of Dean in west Gloucestershire, England. It is located in-between Bream and Yorkley. Whitecroft comes under the postal district of Lydney.
Pillowell
Village
Photo: Des Blenkinsopp, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Pillowell is a small English village in Gloucestershire, on the south-eastern edge of the Forest of Dean. Once a mining village, much of it now lies in a conservation area.
Yorkley
Village
Photo: Pauline Eccles, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Yorkley is a village in west Gloucestershire, England. The village includes the settlement of Yorkley Slade to the east. Yorkley is situated between the villages of Pillowell and Oldcroft.
Parkend
- Category: locality
- Location: West Dean, Forest of Dean, Gloucestershire, West Country, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
51.76883° or 51° 46′ 8″ northLongitude
-2.55692° or 2° 33′ 25″ westElevation
167 feet (51 metres)Open location code
9C3VQC9V+G6OpenStreetMap ID
node 29370939OpenStreetMap feature
place=village
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Chinese to Welsh—“Parkend” goes by many names.
- Chinese: “巴尔肯德”
- Chinese: “巴爾肯德”
- Dutch: “Parkend”
- French: “Parkend”
- Irish: “Parkend”
- Polish: “Parkend (Gloucestershire)”
- Polish: “Parkend”
- Welsh: “Parkend”
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Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include Parkend Cricket Ground and Parkend Baptist Church.
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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Parkend”. Photo: Obscurasky, Public domain.