Clearwell Caves
Clearwell Caves is a museum in West Dean, Forest of Dean, England which is located on Lambsquay Road. Clearwell Caves is situated nearby to the forest Stock Wood, as well as near the village Sling.Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Clearwell Caves and Puzzlewood.
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. Clearwell Caves is situated 360 feet west of Clearwell Caves.
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
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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. Clearwell Castle is situated 3,200 feet southwest of Clearwell Caves.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Sling and Clearwell.
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.
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.
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 Caves
- Type: Museum
- Address: Lambsquay Road, GColeford, GL16 8JR
- Categories: tourism and tourist attraction
- Location: West Dean, Forest of Dean, Gloucestershire, West Country, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
51.7715° or 51° 46′ 17″ northLongitude
-2.61282° or 2° 36′ 46″ westOpen location code
9C3VQ9CP+HVOpenStreetMap ID
node 2886449890OpenStreetMap feature
tourism=museum
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