Clearwell
Clearwell is a village and former ancient manor in the Forest of Dean, West Gloucestershire, England. Situated 3 miles south of Coleford and 2.5 miles east of the Welsh border, a recent survey indicated that the population of Clearwell is approximately 350.Photo: Pauline Eccles, CC BY-SA 2.0.
- Type: Village with 350 residents
- Description: village in Gloucestershire, England, UK
- Also known as: “Clearwell, Gloucestershire”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Clearwell Castle and Clearwell Caves.
Clearwell Castle
Castle
Photo: AHFilms, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Clearwell Castle in Clearwell, the Forest of Dean, Gloucestershire, is a Gothic Revival house constructed from 1727. Built by Thomas Wyndham to the designs of Roger Morris, it is the earliest Georgian Gothic Revival castle in England predating better-known examples such as Strawberry Hill House by over twenty years.
Clearwell Caves
Photo: Andy Dingley, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Clearwell Caves, at Clearwell in the Forest of Dean, Gloucestershire, England, is a natural cave system which has been extensively mined for iron ore. It now operates primarily as a working mining museum.
Puzzlewood
Forest
Photo: Andy Dingley, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Puzzlewood is an ancient woodland site and tourist attraction, near Coleford in the Forest of Dean, Gloucestershire, England. The site, covering 14 acres, shows evidence of open-cast iron ore mining dating from the Roman period, and possibly earlier.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Sling and Milkwall.
Sling
Village
Photo: Pauline Eccles, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Sling is a village in Gloucestershire, England. The village is located between Clearwell and Bream. It is just south of the village of Milkwall.
Milkwall
Village
Photo: Pauline Eccles, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Milkwall is a village in the Forest of Dean in Gloucestershire, England. It lies between the village of Sling to the south, and the town of Coleford to the north.
Ellwood
Village
Photo: Jonathan Billinger, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Ellwood is a hamlet in the Forest of Dean district in Gloucestershire, England. It lies around 3 kilometres south-east of Coleford. The hamlet has a football club Ellwood F.C. who play at Bromley Road.
Clearwell
- Category: locality
- Location: Newland, Forest of Dean, Gloucestershire, West Country, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
51.76958° or 51° 46′ 11″ northLongitude
-2.62257° or 2° 37′ 21″ westPopulation
350Elevation
577 feet (176 metres)Open location code
9C3VQ99G+RXOpenStreetMap ID
node 347197761OpenStreetMap feature
place=villageGeoNames ID
6951034Wikidata ID
Q5130972
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Cebuano to Welsh—“Clearwell” goes by many names.
- Cebuano: “Clearwell”
- Dutch: “Clearwell”
- French: “Clearwell”
- Irish: “Clearwell”
- Japanese: “クリアウェル”
- Polish: “Clearwell”
- Swedish: “Clearwell”
- Urdu: “کلیئر ویل”
- Welsh: “Clearwell”
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