Brockhollands
Brockhollands is a hamlet located in the Forest of Dean.
Brockhollands is a hamlet located in the Forest of Dean. It lies between the village of Bream and the town of Lydney in Gloucestershire. It is an obscure and small area with around 30 houses and is relatively unknown even in the local area.
With its only attributes being the local sheep farm, it rarely sees any tourism but is frequently driven through by those going up to Bream.
Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Worth seeing in and around Brockhollands
3 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.
- 01Dean 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.
900 m · heritage railway in Gloucestershire, England, UK · Wikipedia - 02Lydney 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".
2.9 km · municipal Building in England · Wikipedia - 03Parkend 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.
2.5 km · historic site in England, UK · Wikipedia
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Getting to Brockhollands
- Airports
- Bristol (BRS), 42 km · Cardiff (CWL), 67 km · Birmingham (BHX), 96 km
- Stations
- Lydney railway station, 3.9 km · Lydney Town railway station, 2.9 km · Norchard railway station, 1.7 km · Lydney Junction railway station, 3.9 km · Parkend railway station, 2.3 km
- Bristol → Brockhollands32 km · quickest by road, 1h 2m · £4–6
- Cardiff → Brockhollands52 km · quickest by road, 1h 32m · £6–8
- Birmingham, West Midlands → Brockhollands93 km · quickest by road, 2h 28m · £11–14
- 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 Brockhollands
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 Brockhollands. 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.
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If you know how people move in Brockhollands – the stand, the rule, the fare – tell us, and the note gets an entry.
Next door to Brockhollands
Brockhollands is 33 km from Bristol, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.
- Lydneytown in Gloucestershire, UK2.8 km
- Aylburtonvillage in Gloucestershire, UK3.8 km
- West Deancivil parish in Forest of Dean, Gloucestershire, UK1.1 km
- Breamvillage in Gloucestershire, United Kingdom1.2 km
- Yorkleyvillage in Gloucestershire, England, UK2.6 km
- Pillowellvillage in Gloucestershire, England, UK1.5 km