Little Drybrook

Little Drybrook is a hamlet in West Dean, Forest of Dean, England. Little Drybrook is situated nearby to the hamlet Clements End, as well as near Clement’s Tump.

Photo: Jonathan Billinger, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Places of Interest

Highlights include Puzzlewood and Darkhill Ironworks.

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.

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.

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.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Ellwood and Sling.

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.

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.

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.

Little Drybrook

Type: Hamlet
Description: hamlet in Gloucestershire, England
Category: locality
Location: West Dean, Forest of Dean, Gloucestershire, West Country, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude

51.76228° or 51° 45′ 44″ north

Longitude

-2.59022° or 2° 35′ 25″ west

Elevation

466 feet (142 metres)

Open location code

9C3VQC65+WW

OpenStreetMap ID

node 347143754

OpenStreetMap feature

place=hamlet

GeoNames ID

13281898

Wikidata ID

Q22672376

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Satellite Map

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In Other Languages

“Little Drybrook” goes by many names.

Welsh: “Little Drybrook”

Localities in the Area

Explore places such as Clements End and Clement’s Tump.

Notable Places Nearby

Highlights include Clements End Green Methodist Chapel and Noxon Park.

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