Hewelsfield
Hewelsfield is a village in Hewelsfield and Brockweir civil parish, in the Forest of Dean district of Gloucestershire, England.
Hewelsfield is a village in Hewelsfield and Brockweir civil parish, in the Forest of Dean district of Gloucestershire, England.
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Worth seeing in and around Hewelsfield
4 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.
- 01Wye Valley
The Wye Valley is a valley in Wales and England. The River Wye is the fourth-longest river in the United Kingdom.
3.6 km · National Landscape and Site of Special Scientific Interest in Wales and England · Wikipedia - 02St Briavels Castle
St Briavels Castle is a moated Norman castle at St Briavels in the English county of Gloucestershire. The castle is noted for its huge Edwardian gatehouse that guards the entrance.
2.6 km · Grade I listed castle in Forest of Dean, United Kingdom · Wikipedia - 03Hewelsfield Motte
The Hewelsfield Motte is a roughly circular mound, in Hewelsfield, Gloucestershire, England. It is thought to be a castle motte dating from the period 1175-1200.
100 m · scheduled monument in Gloucestershire, England · Wikipedia - 04Poor's Allotment
Poor's Allotment is a 28.57-hectare biological Site of Special Scientific Interest in Gloucestershire, notified in 1954. The site is listed in the 'Forest of Dean Local Plan Review' as a Key Wildlife Site.
3.2 km · biological Site of Special Scientific Interest in Gloucestershire, UK · Wikipedia
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Getting to Hewelsfield
- Airports
- Bristol (BRS), 38 km · Cardiff (CWL), 61 km · Birmingham (BHX), 102 km
- Cardiff → Hewelsfield47 km · quickest by road, 1h 25m · £6–7
- Birmingham, West Midlands → Hewelsfield98 km · quickest by road, 2h 33m · £12–16
- London → Hewelsfield174 km · quickest by road, 3h 28m · £19–26
- 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 Hewelsfield
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 Hewelsfield. 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 Hewelsfield – the stand, the rule, the fare – tell us, and the note gets an entry.
Next door to Hewelsfield
Hewelsfield is 29 km from Bristol, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.
- St Briavelsvillage and civil parish in Gloucestershire, United Kingdom2.4 km
- Alvingtonvillage and civil parish in Forest of Dean, Gloucestershire, England3.8 km
- Woolastonvillage in Gloucestershire, England, UK2.6 km
- Brockweirvillage in Gloucestershire, United Kingdom3.3 km
- Hewelsfield and Brockweircivil parish in Forest of Dean, Gloucestershire, England900 m