Brockweir
Brockweir is a village in Hewelsfield and Brockweir civil parish, in the Forest of Dean District of Gloucestershire, England. The civil parish also includes the separate village of Hewelsfield.Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Photo: Topo122, CC BY-SA 4.0.
- Type: Village
- Description: village in Gloucestershire, United Kingdom
- Also known as: “Brockweir, Gloucestershire” and “Hewelsfield and Brockweir”
Photo: Roy Parkhouse, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Places of Interest
Highlights include Tintern Abbey and Miss Grace’s Lane.
Tintern Abbey
Photo: Saffron Blaze, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Tintern Abbey is a ruined medieval abbey adjacent to the village of Tintern in Monmouthshire, on the Welsh bank of the River Wye, which at this location forms the border between Monmouthshire in Wales and Gloucestershire in England.
Miss Grace’s Lane
Cave
Miss Grace's Lane, near Tidenham in the Forest of Dean, Gloucestershire, England, is a natural cave system, the entrance to which was excavated between 1994 and 1997 by members of the Royal Forest of Dean Caving Club.
East Wood
Forest
Photo: Biopics, CC BY-SA 3.0.
East Wood and is a 0.82-hectare nature reserve in Gloucestershire, England. The west site is 0.45-hectare. The east site is 0.37-hectare. It is part of a larger area of woodland called East Wood, which is adjacent to Oakhill Wood and Woolaston Wood.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Tintern and St Briavels.
Tintern
Photo: WelshDave, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Tintern is situated just inside South Wales in the beautiful Wye Valley, an Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty, six miles north of Chepstow on the A466 road to Monmouth.
St Briavels
Village
Photo: Roy Parkhouse, CC BY-SA 2.0.
St Briavels, is a medium-sized village and civil parish in the Royal Forest of Dean in west Gloucestershire, England; close to the England-Wales border, and 5 miles south of Coleford. St Briavels is situated 2½ miles northeast of Brockweir.
Llandogo
Village
Photo: andy dolman, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Llandogo is a small village in Monmouthshire, south Wales, between Monmouth and Chepstow in the lower reaches of the Wye Valley AONB, two miles north of Tintern.
Brockweir
- Category: locality
- Location: Forest of Dean, Gloucestershire, West Country, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
51.7072° or 51° 42′ 26″ northLongitude
-2.6679° or 2° 40′ 5″ westElevation
587 feet (179 metres)United Nations Location Code
GB CKWOpen location code
9C3VP84J+VROpenStreetMap ID
node 307989243OpenStreetMap feature
place=villageGeoNames ID
7295178Wikidata ID
Q4972911
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Satellite Map
Discover Brockweir from above in high-definition satellite imagery.
In Other Languages
From Basque to Welsh—“Brockweir” goes by many names.
- Basque: “Brockweir”
- Cebuano: “Brockweir”
- Dutch: “Brockweir”
- French: “Brockweir”
- Irish: “Brockweir”
- Italian: “Brockweir”
- Polish: “Brockweir”
- Welsh: “Brockweir”
Localities in the Area
Explore places such as Tintern Parva and St Briavels Common.
Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include The Brockweir Inn and River Wye.
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