Wimberry Quarries
Wimberry Quarries is a 2-hectare nature reserve in Gloucestershire in the Forest of Dean. The site is held under agreement with the Forestry Commission. The site is listed in the 'Forest of Dean Local Plan Review' as a Key Wildlife Site.Photo: Wsiegmund, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Places of Interest
Highlights include Slaughter Stream Cave and Puzzlewood.
Slaughter Stream Cave
Cave
Slaughter Stream Cave, also known as Wet Sink, is a cave system in the Wye Valley, Forest of Dean. A series of fixed ladders and two pitches lead to sporting streamways, sandy crawls and fossil passages.
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. Puzzlewood is situated 2½ miles southwest of Wimberry Quarries.
Coleford Great Western Railway Museum
Museum
Photo: Graham Horn, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Coleford Great Western Railway Museum is a railway museum located in Coleford, Gloucestershire, England. The museum was founded in 1988. Based in the former GWR Goods Shed along the Coleford Railway.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Mile End and Broadwell.
Mile End
Village
Photo: Pauline Eccles, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Mile End is a small village in the English county of Gloucestershire. It belongs to the civil parish of Coleford, which is also its post town. Mile End is 1 mile northeast of Coleford.
Broadwell
Village
Photo: Pauline Eccles, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Broadwell is a village about 1 mile east of Coleford, Gloucestershire, England. It is at the western edge of the Forest of Dean, in the civil parish of Coleford, which is also its post town. The village of Mile End is to the north and Coalway is to the south.
Baker’s Hill
Hamlet
Coleford is a market town in the west of the Forest of Dean, Gloucestershire, England, two miles east of the Welsh border and close to the Wye Valley. It is the administrative centre of the Forest of Dean district.
Wimberry Quarries
- Type: Locality
- Description: nature reserve in Gloucestershire, England
- Category: quarry
- Location: Coleford, Forest of Dean, Gloucestershire, West Country, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
51.80676° or 51° 48′ 24″ northLongitude
-2.59004° or 2° 35′ 24″ westOpen location code
9C3VRC45+PXOpenStreetMap ID
node 3633875379OpenStreetMap feature
place=localityWikidata ID
Q8023510
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