River Wye
River Wye is a river in Brockweir, Forest of Dean, England. River Wye is situated nearby to the hamlet Tintern Parva, as well as near Chapel Hill.Places of Interest
Highlights include Tintern Abbey and Miss Grace’s Lane.
Tintern Abbey
Photo: Saffron Blaze, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Tintern Abbey is a ruined medieval abbey adjacent to the village of Tintern in Monmouthshire, on the Welsh bank of the River Wye, which at this location forms the border between Monmouthshire in Wales and Gloucestershire in England.
Miss Grace’s Lane
Cave
Miss Grace's Lane, near Tidenham in the Forest of Dean, Gloucestershire, England, is a natural cave system, the entrance to which was excavated between 1994 and 1997 by members of the Royal Forest of Dean Caving Club.
Wyndcliff
Forest
The Wyndcliff or Wynd Cliff is a steep limestone cliff rising above the western bank of the River Wye in Monmouthshire, Wales, some 1 mile north-east of the village of St Arvans, 2.5 miles south of Tintern, and 3.5 miles north of the town of Chepstow, within the Wye Valley Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Tintern and Llandogo.
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.
Llandogo
Village
Photo: andy dolman, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Llandogo is a small village in Monmouthshire, south Wales, between Monmouth and Chepstow in the lower reaches of the Wye Valley AONB, two miles north of Tintern.
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.
River Wye
- Type: River
- Category: body of water
- Location: Brockweir, Forest of Dean, Gloucestershire, West Country, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
51.7036° or 51° 42′ 13″ northLongitude
-2.6707° or 2° 40′ 14″ westOpen location code
9C3VP83H+CPOpenStreetMap ID
way 142986317OpenStreetMap feature
natural=waterOpenStreetMap feature
water=river
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