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.

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.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Ellwood and Clearwell.

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

Village

Photo: Pauline Eccles, CC BY-SA 2.0.

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.

Little Drybrook

Hamlet

Photo: Jonathan Billinger, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Little Drybrook is a hamlet.

Sling

Category: locality
Location: West Dean, Forest of Dean, Gloucestershire, West Country, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude

51.76706° or 51° 46′ 1″ north

Longitude

-2.60791° or 2° 36′ 29″ west

Elevation

656 feet (200 metres)

Open location code

9C3VQ98R+RR

OpenStreetMap ID

node 5529012853

OpenStreetMap feature

place=village

GeoNames ID

12266504

Wikidata ID

Q7540669

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In Other Languages

From Basque to Welsh—“Sling” goes by many names.

Basque: “Sling (Gloucestershire)”
Basque: “Sling”
Dutch: “Sling, Gloucestershire”
French: “Sling”
Irish: “Sling”
Polish: “Sling (Gloucestershire)”
Polish: “Sling”
Spanish: “Sling”
Welsh: “Sling, Swydd Gaerloyw”

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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 “Sling”. Photo: Pauline Eccles, CC BY-SA 2.0.