Folly Wood
Folly Wood is a forest in Alvington, Forest of Dean, England. Folly Wood is situated nearby to the hamlet Clanna, as well as near the village Hewelsfield.Places of Interest
Highlights include East Wood and Church of St Mary Magdalen.
East Wood
Forest
Photo: Biopics, CC BY-SA 3.0.
East Wood and is a 0.82-hectare nature reserve in Gloucestershire, England. The west site is 0.45-hectare. The east site is 0.37-hectare. It is part of a larger area of woodland called East Wood, which is adjacent to Oakhill Wood and Woolaston Wood.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Lydney and Tintern.
Lydney
Photo: Pauline Eccles, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Lydney is a town in Gloucestershire 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.
Tintern
Photo: WelshDave, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Tintern is situated just inside South Wales in the beautiful Wye Valley, an Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty, six miles north of Chepstow on the A466 road to Monmouth.
St Briavels
Village
Photo: Roy Parkhouse, CC BY-SA 2.0.
St Briavels, is a medium-sized village and civil parish in the Royal Forest of Dean in west Gloucestershire, England; close to the England-Wales border, and 5 miles south of Coleford.
Folly Wood
- Type: Forest
- Location: Alvington, Forest of Dean, Gloucestershire, West Country, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
51.7175° or 51° 43′ 3″ northLongitude
-2.6063° or 2° 36′ 23″ westOpen location code
9C3VP99V+2FOpenStreetMap ID
way 116811883OpenStreetMap feature
landuse=forest
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