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 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.
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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.
- 01Clearwell 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 - 02Dean 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 - 03Stow 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 - 04Clearwell 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 - 05Lydney 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 - 06Darkhill 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 - 07Parkend 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
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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 → Bream33 km · quickest by road, 1h 3m · £4–6
- Cardiff → Bream51 km · quickest by road, 1h 33m · £6–8
- Birmingham, West Midlands → Bream94 km · quickest by road, 2h 29m · £11–15
- Plan a tripFrom anywhereThe planner compares every way there from wherever you are.
Road and air are today’s quick answer; timetabled trains, buses and ferries load on the results page from the operators’ feeds.
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.
- 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.
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If you know how people move in Bream – the stand, the rule, the fare – tell us, and the note gets an entry.
Next door to Bream
Bream is 33 km from Bristol, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.
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