Pope’s Hill
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.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Jonathan Billinger, CC BY-SA 2.0.
- Type: Village
- Description: village in Gloucestershire, England, UK
- Also known as: “Pope’s Hill, Gloucestershire” and “Popes Hill”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Church of St Mary the Virgin, Flaxley and Welshbury Hill.
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.
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.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Flaxley and Cinderford.
Flaxley
Village
Photo: Pauline Eccles, CC BY-SA 2.0.
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.
Cinderford
Town
Photo: Pauline Eccles, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Cinderford is a town and civil parish on the eastern fringe of the Forest of Dean in Gloucestershire, England. The population was 8,777 at the 2021 Census. Cinderford is situated 2 miles west of Pope’s Hill.
Blaize Bailey
Locality
Blaize Bailey is a small hamlet and viewpoint on the eastern edge of the Forest of Dean, in Gloucestershire, England. The viewpoint was constructed using stone from a disused railway bridge at nearby Fetter Hill. Blaize Bailey is situated 2 miles southwest of Pope’s Hill.
Pope’s Hill
- Category: locality
- Location: Littledean, Forest of Dean, Gloucestershire, West Country, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
51.82663° or 51° 49′ 36″ northLongitude
-2.4554° or 2° 27′ 19″ westElevation
394 feet (120 metres)Open location code
9C3VRGGV+MROpenStreetMap ID
node 329886253OpenStreetMap feature
place=village
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In Other Languages
From Dutch to Welsh—“Pope’s Hill” goes by many names.
- Dutch: “Pope’s Hill”
- French: “Pope’s Hill”
- Irish: “Pope’s Hill”
- Polish: “Pope’s Hill”
- Welsh: “Pope’s Hill”
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