West Dean
West Dean is a civil parish, situated in the Forest of Dean district of Gloucestershire, England.Photo: Stuart Wilding, CC BY-SA 2.0.
- Type: Locality with 10,300 residents
- Description: civil parish in Forest of Dean, Gloucestershire, UK
- Also known as: “West Dean, Gloucestershire”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Parkend railway station and Darkhill Ironworks.
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.
Darkhill Ironworks
Darkhill Ironworks, and the neighbouring Titanic Steelworks, are internationally important industrial remains associated with the development of the iron and steel industries in the 19th century.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Forest of Dean and Lydney.
Forest of Dean
Photo: Nilfanion, CC BY-SA 4.0.
The Forest of Dean is a geographical, historical and cultural region in the western part of the county of Gloucestershire, England. It forms a roughly triangular plateau bounded by the River Wye to the west and northwest, Herefordshire to the north, the River Severn to the south, and the City of Gloucester to the east.
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.
Bream
Village
Photo: Jonathan Billinger, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Bream is a village in the Forest of Dean, west Gloucestershire, England. The village is located near the Lyd river and within the Forest of Dean coalfield. In 2025, the population was approximately 4,812. Bream is situated 2½ miles south of West Dean.
West Dean
- Category: civil parish
- Location: Forest of Dean, Gloucestershire, West Country, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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In Other Languages
From Bengali to Welsh—“West Dean” goes by many names.
- Bengali: “ওয়েস্ট ডিন”
- Cebuano: “West Dean (parokya sa Hiniusang Gingharian, Gloucestershire)”
- Cebuano: “West Dean”
- Chinese: “西甸恩”
- Dutch: “West Dean”
- French: “West Dean”
- German: “West Dean”
- Gujarati: “પશ્ચિમ ડીન”
- Irish: “Dean Thiar”
- Italian: “West Dean (Gloucestershire)”
- Italian: “West Dean”
- Japanese: “西ディ―ン”
- Kannada: “ವೆಸ್ಟ್ ಡೀನ್”
- Korean: “웨스트 딘”
- Lithuanian: “Vest Dynas”
- Persian: “وست دین، گلاسترشر”
- Polish: “West Dean”
- Portuguese: “West Dean”
- Russian: “Вест-Дин”
- Spanish: “West Dean”
- Swedish: “West Dean, Gloucestershire”
- Swedish: “West Dean”
- Tamil: “மேற்கு டீன்”
- Telugu: “వెస్ట్ డీన్”
- Turkish: “West Dean, Gloucestershire”
- Urdu: “ویسٹ ڈین”
- Welsh: “West Dean, Swydd Gaerloyw”
- Welsh: “West Dean”
- “West Dean”
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