Gorsty Knoll
Gorsty Knoll is a small hamlet, located in the Forest of Dean, Gloucestershire, England. The internationally important remains of Darkhill Ironworks and the Titanic Steelworks, are located on the edge of the hamlet.- Type: Hamlet
- Description: village in Gloucestershire, England, UK
- Also known as: “Gorsty Knoll, Gloucestershire”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Darkhill Ironworks and Puzzlewood.
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.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.
Oakiron railway station
Railway station
Photo: Rosser1954, CC BY 4.0.
Oakiron railway station is the terminus of the 15 in gauge Perrygrove Railway. The line was opened in 1996 and is now open as a heritage railway, passenger trains run round the train via the loop to couple on with the train back down to Perrygrove Station.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Milkwall and Ellwood.
Milkwall
Village
Photo: Pauline Eccles, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Milkwall is a village in the Forest of Dean in Gloucestershire, England. It lies between the village of Sling to the south, and the town of Coleford to the north.
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.
Coalway
Village
Photo: Jonathan Billinger, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Coalway is a village in the West Forest of Dean region of Gloucestershire, England, approximately one mile south-east of the town of Coleford. Within the civil parish of Coleford, the village is just south of the village of Broadwell.
Gorsty Knoll
- Categories: village and locality
- Location: Coleford, Forest of Dean, Gloucestershire, West Country, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
51.78021° or 51° 46′ 49″ northLongitude
-2.59751° or 2° 35′ 51″ westOpen location code
9C3VQCJ2+3XOpenStreetMap ID
node 2353666152OpenStreetMap feature
place=hamletWikidata ID
Q5586899
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Dutch to Welsh—“Gorsty Knoll” goes by many names.
- Dutch: “Gorsty Knoll”
- French: “Gorsty Knoll”
- Irish: “Gorsty Knoll”
- Polish: “Gorsty Knoll”
- Welsh: “Gorsty Knoll”
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Highlights include Ellwood Primary School and Forest Golf Club.
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