Alvington
Alvington is a village and civil parish in the Forest of Dean in Gloucestershire, England, situated on the A48 road, six miles north-east of Chepstow in Wales. The parish had a total population of 506 at the 2011 census.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Village with 506 residents
- Description: village and civil parish in Forest of Dean, Gloucestershire, England
- Also known as: “Alvington, Gloucestershire”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Church of St Andrew and Mission Church.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Hewelsfield and Lydney.
Hewelsfield
Village
Photo: Stuart Wilding, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Hewelsfield is a village in Hewelsfield and Brockweir civil parish, in the Forest of Dean district of Gloucestershire, England. The village is located 6 miles south of Coleford and 5 miles north-east of Chepstow, close to the Wye valley and partly within an Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty. Hewelsfield is situated 2 miles west of Alvington.
Lydney
Photo: Pauline Eccles, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Lydney is a town in Gloucestershire on the north bank of the Severn estuary, 9 miles from the Welsh border at Chepstow. It grew up as a small port in the 18th and 19th century, and in 2011 its population was 8766.
Brockhollands
Hamlet
Photo: Jonathan Billinger, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Brockhollands is a hamlet located in the Forest of Dean. It lies between the village of Bream and the town of Lydney in Gloucestershire. It is an obscure and small area with around 30 houses and is relatively unknown even in the local area. Brockhollands is situated 3 miles north of Alvington.
Alvington
- Categories: civil parish and locality
- Location: Alvington, Forest of Dean, Gloucestershire, West Country, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
51.70479° or 51° 42′ 17″ northLongitude
-2.5769° or 2° 34′ 37″ westPopulation
506Elevation
148 feet (45 metres)Open location code
9C3VPC3F+W6OpenStreetMap ID
node 322919310OpenStreetMap feature
place=villageGeoNames ID
2657383Wikidata ID
Q4738273
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In Other Languages
From Basque to Welsh—“Alvington” goes by many names.
- Basque: “Alvington (Gloucestershire)”
- Basque: “Alvington”
- Bulgarian: “Алвингтон”
- Cebuano: “Alvington”
- Dutch: “Alvington”
- French: “Alvington”
- Irish: “Alvington”
- Italian: “Alvington”
- Ladin: “Alvington”
- Polish: “Alvington (Gloucestershire)”
- Polish: “Alvington”
- Portuguese: “Alvington”
- Spanish: “Alvington”
- Swedish: “Alvington”
- Welsh: “Alvington, Swydd Gaerloyw”
- Welsh: “Alvington”
- “Alvington”
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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 “Alvington”. Photo: Peter Wood, CC BY-SA 2.0.