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Bream

Bream are species of freshwater fish belonging to a variety of genera including Abramis, Ballerus, Blicca, Chilotilapia, Etelis, Lepomis, Gymnocranius, Lethrinus, Nemipterus, Pharyngochromis, Rhabdosargus, Scolopsis, or Serranochromis.

Bream
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The place

Bream are species of freshwater fish belonging to a variety of genera including Abramis, Ballerus, Blicca, Chilotilapia, Etelis, Lepomis, Gymnocranius, Lethrinus, Nemipterus, Pharyngochromis, Rhabdosargus, Scolopsis, or Serranochromis.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Bream

7 places within 25 km that the world writes about, in the order of how widely: the ones a visitor has heard of first, then the ones only a local would name.

  1. 01
    Clearwell Castle

    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.

    3.9 km · house in Gloucestershire, England, UK · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Dean Forest Railway

    The Dean Forest Railway is a 4+1⁄4-mile long heritage railway that runs between Lydney and Parkend in the Forest of Dean, Gloucestershire, England. The route was part of the former Severn and Wye Railway which ran from Lydney to Cinderford.

    2.3 km · heritage railway in Gloucestershire, England, UK · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    Stow Green

    Stow Green Castle, also known as Castle Tump, was a castle near the village of St Briavels in Gloucestershire, England. The castle is believed to have been built after the Norman Conquest.

    3.9 km · castle in St Briavels, Gloucestershire, England, UK · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    Clearwell Caves

    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.

    3.6 km · cave system in Clearwell, England · Wikipedia
  5. 05
    Lydney Town Hall

    Lydney Town Hall is a municipal structure in the High Street, Lydney, Gloucestershire, England. The structure, which is used as an events venue, is listed by the local authority as a "building of local architectural or historical interest".

    3.9 km · municipal Building in England · Wikipedia
  6. 06
    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. Both are scheduled monuments.

    3.4 km · historic site in England, UK · Wikipedia
  7. 07
    Parkend Ironworks

    Parkend Ironworks, also known as Parkend Furnace, in the village of Parkend, in the Forest of Dean, Gloucestershire, England, was a coke-fired furnace built in 1799. Most of the works were demolished between 1890 and 1908, but the engine house survived and is arguably the best preserved example of its kind to be found in the United Kingdom.

    2.7 km · historic site in England, UK · Wikipedia

Ranked by the number of language editions of Wikipedia with an article on each, from Wikidata; the sentences are the openings of those articles, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Go there

Getting to Bream

Airports
Bristol (BRS), 42 km · Cardiff (CWL), 66 km · Birmingham (BHX), 97 km
Stations
Lydney Town railway station, 4 km · Norchard railway station, 2.9 km · Parkend railway station, 2.6 km · Whitecroft railway station, 1.8 km
  • Bristol → Bream
    33 km · quickest by road, 1h 3m · £4–6
  • Cardiff → Bream
    51 km · quickest by road, 1h 33m · £6–8
  • Birmingham, West Midlands → Bream
    94 km · quickest by road, 2h 29m · £11–15
  • From anywhere
    The planner compares every way there from wherever you are.
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Bream

Our researched notes are written from a sourced entry: every shared taxi, boat and village bus with its operator, its rule, its fare and the year we saw it, and what could not be confirmed. Nobody has done that work for Bream. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • Go nextThe bridge over the river, which opened in 1906 and replaced a ferry (which promptly went bankrupt owing to an inevitable loss of custom), is particularly fine.

From Wikivoyage: Tintern, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-09.

The nearest places where the work is done
  1. 01
    Isle of WightGB

    11 ways of moving, 22 sources

    148 km
  2. 02
    LundyGB

    7 ways of moving, 11 sources

    158 km
  3. 03
    Isle of ArranGB

    10 ways of moving, 31 sources

    458 km
  4. 04
    Tarbert, Loch Fyne and KintyreGB

    9 ways of moving, 15 sources

    494 km
  5. 05
    Inis Mór (Inishmore)IE

    8 ways of moving, 20 sources

    508 km

If you know how people move in Bream – the stand, the rule, the fare – tell us, and the note gets an entry.

Around it

Next door to Bream

Bream is 33 km from Bristol, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.

  • West Deancivil parish in Forest of Dean, Gloucestershire, UK300 m
  • Yorkleyvillage in Gloucestershire, England, UK3.7 km
  • Clearwellvillage in Gloucestershire, England, UK4 km
  • Pillowellvillage in Gloucestershire, England, UK2.6 km
  • Slingvillage in Gloucestershire, England, United Kingdom2.9 km
  • Allastonvillage in Gloucestershire, England, UK3.8 km