Coleford
Worth seeing in and around Coleford
9 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.
- 01Puzzlewood
Ancient woodland site, near Coleford in the Forest of Dean, Gloucestershire, England
1.7 km · Wikipedia - 02
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- 06Royal Forest of Dean College
Further education college (defunct) school in Coleford, Gloucestershire, England
1.7 km · Wikipedia - 07
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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.
Getting to Coleford
- Airports
- Bristol (BRS), 46 km · Cardiff (CWL), 67 km · Birmingham (BHX), 94 km
- Stations
- Oakiron railway station, 1.4 km · Rookwood railway station, 1.2 km · Speech House Road railway station, 3.3 km
- Bristol → Coleford38 km · quickest by road, 1h 8m · £4.5–6
- Cardiff → Coleford53 km · quickest by road, 1h 29m · £6–8
- Birmingham, West Midlands → Coleford91 km · quickest by road, 2h 19m · £11–14
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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 Coleford
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 Coleford. 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 Coleford – the stand, the rule, the fare – tell us, and the note gets an entry.
Next door to Coleford
Coleford is 38 km from Bristol, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.
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