Flaxley
Flaxley is a small settlement and former civil parish, now in the parish of Blaisdon, in the Forest of Dean, Gloucestershire, England. It is located in between the larger villages of Westbury-on-Severn and Mitcheldean.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Pauline Eccles, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Photo: Jennifer Luther Thomas, CC BY-SA 2.0.
- Type: Village
- Description: village in Gloucestershire, England, UK
- Also known as: “Flaxley, Gloucestershire”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Church of St Mary the Virgin, Flaxley and Flaxley Abbey.
Flaxley Abbey
Building
Photo: Jennifer Luther Thomas, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Flaxley Abbey is a former Cistercian monastery in England, now a Grade I listed English country house and private residence, near the village of Flaxley in the Forest of Dean, Gloucestershire. It is the former seat of the Crawley-Boevey Baronets.
Welshbury Hill
Archaeological site
Welshbury Hill is an Iron Age hill fort near Mitcheldean in Gloucestershire, England. It is thought to have been built by Celts and dates back to 1600 BC.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Pope’s Hill and Abenhall.
Pope’s Hill
Village
Photo: Jonathan Billinger, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Pope's Hill is a hill and a small village situated in the east of the Forest of Dean, Gloucestershire within the parish of Littledean. The hill is 12 miles south west of Gloucester and 3 miles east of Cinderford.
Abenhall
Village
Photo: Pauline Eccles, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Abenhall is a small village and former civil parish, now in the parish of Mitcheldean, in the Forest of Dean district, in the county of Gloucestershire, England. Abenhall is situated 2 miles northwest of Flaxley.
Garden Cliff
Locality
Photo: Philip Halling, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Garden Cliff is a 5.1-hectare geological Site of Special Scientific Interest in Gloucestershire, notified in 1954. Garden Cliff is situated 2 miles southeast of Flaxley.
Flaxley
- Category: locality
- Location: Blaisdon, Forest of Dean, Gloucestershire, West Country, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
51.83455° or 51° 50′ 4″ northLongitude
-2.44931° or 2° 26′ 58″ westElevation
148 feet (45 metres)Open location code
9C3VRHM2+R7OpenStreetMap ID
node 329881681OpenStreetMap feature
place=village
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In Other Languages
From Dutch to Welsh—“Flaxley” goes by many names.
- Dutch: “Flaxley”
- French: “Flaxley”
- Irish: “Flaxley”
- Japanese: “フラックスリー”
- Polish: “Flaxley”
- Swedish: “Flaxley”
- Welsh: “Flaxley”
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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 “Flaxley”. Photo: Pauline Eccles, CC BY-SA 2.0.