Parkend
Parkend is a village, located at the foot of the Cannop Valley, in the Royal Forest of Dean, West Gloucestershire, England, and has a history dating back to the early 17th century.
Parkend is a village, located at the foot of the Cannop Valley, in the Royal Forest of Dean, West Gloucestershire, England, and has a history dating back to the early 17th century. During the 19th century it was a busy industrial village with several coal mines, an ironworks, stoneworks, timber-yard and a tinplate works, but by the early 20th century most had succumbed to a loss of markets and the general industrial decline. In more recent times, the village has become a tourist destination.
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Worth seeing in and around Parkend
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.
- 01Clearwell 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.
4 km · cave system in Clearwell, England · 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.
2.4 km · heritage railway in Gloucestershire, England, UK · Wikipedia - 03Darkhill 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.
2.8 km · historic site in England, UK · Wikipedia - 04Parkend 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.
0 m · historic site in England, UK · Wikipedia
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Getting to Parkend
- Airports
- Bristol (BRS), 44 km · Cardiff (CWL), 68 km · Birmingham (BHX), 94 km
- Stations
- Norchard railway station, 3.7 km · Parkend railway station, 100 m · Whitecroft railway station, 1.7 km · Speech House Road railway station, 3.8 km
- Bristol → Parkend35 km · quickest by road, 1h 6m · £4.5–6
- Cardiff → Parkend54 km · quickest by road, 1h 37m · £6–8
- Birmingham, West Midlands → Parkend56 km · quickest by road, 1h 29m · £6–9
- 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 Parkend
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 Parkend. 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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Parkend is 35 km from Bristol, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.
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