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Lydney

Lydney is a town in 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.
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  • Type: Town with 8,780 residents
  • Description: town in Gloucestershire, UK
  • Also known as: “Lydney, Gloucestershire”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Lydney Railway Station and Lydney Town Hall.

Railway station
Photo: Roger Davies, CC BY-SA 2.0.
is a railway station serving the town of Lydney in , . It is located on the Gloucester-Newport line, 133 miles 37 chains from the zero point at Paddington, measured via Stroud.

Town hall
Photo: Jonathan Thacker, CC BY-SA 2.0.
is a municipal structure in the High Street, Lydney, , England. The structure, which is used as an events venue, is listed by the local authority as a "building of local architectural or historical interest".

Railway station
Photo: Mattbuck, CC BY-SA 3.0.
is a railway station near Lydney in . The station is now the southern terminus of the Dean Forest Railway.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Bream and Allaston.

Village
Photo: Jonathan Billinger, CC BY-SA 2.0.
is a village in the , west , England. The village is located near the Lyd river and within the Forest of Dean coalfield. In 2025, the population was approximately 4,812. is situated 2½ miles northwest of Lydney.

Village
Photo: Jonathan Billinger, CC BY-SA 2.0.
is a village in , England, now forming part of the town of Lydney. was mentioned in the Domesday Book, when it was part of Bledisloe Hundred.

Village
Photo: Nicholas Mutton, CC BY-SA 2.0.
is a hamlet in , England. The village of is to the northwest, and the hamlet of Viney Hill is to the northeast.

Lydney

Latitude
51.7259° or 51° 43′ 33″ north
Longitude
-2.5313° or 2° 31′ 53″ west
Population
8,780
Elevation
52 feet (16 metres)
United Nations Location Code
GB LYD
Open location code
9C3VPFG9+9F
Open­Street­Map ID
node 27289779
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­town
Geo­Names ID
2643318
Wiki­data ID
Q540012
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In Other Languages

From Asturian to Welsh—“Lydney” goes by many names.
  • Asturian: “Lydney”
  • Basque: “Lydney”
  • Bengali: “লিডনে”
  • Catalan: “Lydney”
  • Cebuano: “Lydney (parokya)”
  • Cebuano: “Lydney”
  • Chinese: “利德尼”
  • Chinese: “林德尼”
  • Dutch: “Lydney”
  • French: “Lydney”
  • German: “Lydney”
  • Gujarati: “લિડ્ની”
  • Hebrew: “לידני”
  • Irish: “Lydney”
  • Italian: “Lydney”
  • Japanese: “リドニー”
  • Kannada: “ಲಿಡ್ನಿ”
  • Korean: “리드니”
  • Latin: “Lydney”
  • Lithuanian: “Lidnis”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Lydney”
  • Persian: “لیدنی”
  • Polish: “Lydney”
  • Portuguese: “Lydney”
  • Romanian: “Lydney”
  • Russian: “Лидни”
  • South Azerbaijani: “لیدنی”
  • Spanish: “Lydney”
  • Swedish: “Lydney (parish)”
  • Swedish: “Lydney”
  • Tamil: “லைட்னி”
  • Telugu: “లిడ్నీ”
  • Urdu: “لیدنے”
  • Volapük: “Lydney”
  • Welsh: “Lydney”

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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 Wikivoyage page “Lydney”. Photo: Pauline Eccles, CC BY-SA 2.0.