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Ruardean Woodside

Ruardean Woodside is a village in Gloucestershire, England, located in the Forest of Dean and tucked away behind Ruardean Hill and Brierley.

The place

Ruardean Woodside is a village in Gloucestershire, England, located in the Forest of Dean and tucked away behind Ruardean Hill and Brierley. There is a primary school and a village hall. The Roebuck was the last of the local pubs to close.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Ruardean Woodside

6 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.

  1. 01
    Lea Bailey Light Railway

    The Lea Bailey Light Railway is a 2 ft narrow-gauge heritage railway in the United Kingdom. It is built on the site of the Bailey Level Gold Mine.

    3.3 km · Heritage light railway in England · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Sarah Siddons House The Old House

    Sarah Siddons' House, also called the Old House, is a cottage in the village of Lydbrook, Gloucestershire, England. A Grade II* listed building, the cottage was reputedly the childhood home of the actor Sarah Siddons.

    3 km · Grade II* listed house in Lydbrook, Forest of Dean, England, UK · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    Cinderford Canal

    The Cinderford Canal was a private canal, opened in about 1797, in Gloucestershire, England, which was used to provide coke and water to Cinderford Ironworks.

    3 km · private canal in Gloucestershire, England · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    Holy Jesus' Church, Lydbrook

    Holy Jesus Church at Lydbrook is a Church of England parish church in the English county of Gloucestershire.

    2.5 km · grade II listed church in Lydbrook, Forest of Dean, Gloucestershire, England, UK · Wikipedia
  5. 05
    Lower Lydbrook Viaduct

    The Lower Lydbrook Viaduct was an iron railway viaduct with stone piers, it was on the Severn and Wye Railway and situated in Lower Lydbrook, Gloucestershire, England. The viaduct, situated at the bottom of the Lydbrook Valley where it meets the Wye Valley, consisted of five stone arches and three wrought iron lattice truss girders.

    3.2 km · railway viaduct in the UK · Wikipedia
  6. 06
    Ruardyn Castle

    Ruardyn Castle was a manor house in the village of Ruardean. Its ruins have been scheduled as an ancient monument.

    1.3 km · castle in the UK · Wikipedia

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Getting to Ruardean Woodside

Airports
Bristol (BRS), 53 km · Cardiff (CWL), 75 km · Birmingham (BHX), 87 km
Stations
Drybrook Road railway station, 2.3 km · Cinderford New railway station, 3.5 km
  • Bristol → Ruardean Woodside
    44 km · quickest by road, 1h 26m · £5–7
  • Cardiff → Ruardean Woodside
    60 km · quickest by road, 1h 39m · £7–9
  • Birmingham, West Midlands → Ruardean Woodside
    83 km · quickest by road, 2h 13m · £10–13
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Ruardean Woodside

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 Ruardean Woodside. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.

The nearest places where the work is done
  1. 01
    Isle of WightGB

    11 ways of moving, 22 sources

    155 km
  2. 02
    LundyGB

    7 ways of moving, 11 sources

    165 km
  3. 03
    Isle of ArranGB

    10 ways of moving, 31 sources

    448 km
  4. 04
    Tarbert, Loch Fyne and KintyreGB

    9 ways of moving, 15 sources

    485 km
  5. 05
    Isle of JuraGB

    10 ways of moving, 19 sources

    506 km

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Around it

Next door to Ruardean Woodside

Ruardean Woodside is 44 km from Bristol, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.

  • Drybrookvillage in Gloucestershire, England, UK900 m
  • Ruardeanvillage in Gloucestershire, England, UK900 m
  • Lydbrookvillage in Gloucestershire, England, UK2.7 km
  • Welsh Bicknorvillage and civil parish in Herefordshire, United Kingdom3.3 km
  • Hope Mansellvillage and civil parish in Herefordshire, England3 km
  • Brierleyhamlet in Gloucestershire, England, UK1.6 km