Forest of Dean
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.
- Type: Area
- Description: geographical, historical and cultural region in Gloucestershire, England
- Also known as: “Danubiae Silva”, “Dean-Forest”, “Foresta de Dena”, “Royal Forest of Dean”, “Wald von Dean”, and “フォレスト・オブ・ディーン”
Places of Interest
Highlights: Parkend railway station and Church of St.Paul.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Ruspidge and Parkend.
Forest of Dean
- Categories: cultural region, royal forest, and forest
- Location: Forest of Dean, Gloucestershire, West Country, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
51.7891° or 51° 47′ 21″ north
Longitude
-2.5432° or 2° 32′ 36″ west
Elevation
548 feet (167 metres)
Open location code
9C3VQFQ4+JP
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In Other Languages
From Basque to Welsh—“Forest of Dean” goes by many names.
- Basque: “Deango basoa”
- Catalan: “bosc de Dean”
- Catalan: “Forest of Dean”
- Cebuano: “Forest of Dean (lasang sa Hiniusang Gingharian)”
- Cebuano: “Forest of Dean”
- Chinese: “迪恩森林”
- Czech: “Deanovský les”
- Danish: “Forest of Dean”
- Dutch: “Forest of Dean”
- French: “forêt de Dean”
- French: “Forêt de Dean”
- Galician: “Bosque de Dean”
- German: “Forest of Dean”
- Hebrew: “יער דין”
- Hungarian: “Deani erdő”
- Hungarian: “Deani-erdő”
- Indonesian: “Hutan Dean”
- Irish: “Foraois Dean”
- Italian: “foresta di Dean”
- Italian: “Foresta di Dean”
- Japanese: “ディーンの森”
- Latin: “Denaea Sylva”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Deanskogen”
- Norwegian: “Deanskogen”
- Persian: “جنگل دین”
- Polish: “Forest of Dean”
- Portuguese: “Floresta de Dean”
- Russian: “Дин”
- Russian: “Лес Дин”
- Spanish: “Bosque de Dean”
- Swedish: “Forest of Dean (skog i Storbritannien)”
- Swedish: “Forest of Dean”
- Ukrainian: “Ліс Діна”
- Welsh: “Fforest y Ddena”
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