St Briavels
St Briavels, is a medium-sized village and civil parish in the Royal Forest of Dean in west Gloucestershire, England; close to the England-Wales border, and 5 miles (8 km) south of Coleford.
St Briavels, is a medium-sized village and civil parish in the Royal Forest of Dean in west Gloucestershire, England; close to the England-Wales border, and 5 miles (8 km) south of Coleford. It stands almost 800 feet (240 m) above sea level on the edge of a limestone plateau above the valley of the River Wye, above an ancient meander of the river. To the west, Cinder Hill drops off sharply into the valley. It is sheltered behind the crumbling walls of the 12th century St Briavels Castle.
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Worth seeing in and around St Briavels
5 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.
- 01St 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.
300 m · Grade I listed castle in Forest of Dean, United Kingdom · Wikipedia - 02Clearwell Castle
Clearwell Castle in Clearwell, the Forest of Dean, Gloucestershire, is a Gothic Revival house constructed from 1727. Built by Thomas Wyndham to the designs of Roger Morris, it is the earliest Georgian Gothic Revival castle in England predating better-known examples such as Strawberry Hill House by over twenty years.
3.5 km · house in Gloucestershire, England, UK · 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.
2.4 km · scheduled monument in Gloucestershire, England · Wikipedia - 04Stow Green
Stow Green Castle, also known as Castle Tump, was a castle near the village of St Briavels in Gloucestershire, England. The castle is believed to have been built after the Norman Conquest.
2.1 km · castle in St Briavels, Gloucestershire, England, UK · Wikipedia - 05Church of St Oudoceus
The Church of St Oudoceus, Llandogo, Monmouthshire is a parish church built in 1859–1861. The church is dedicated to St Oudoceus, an early Bishop of Llandaff who retired to Llandogo and was reputed to have died there in about AD 700.
3.4 km · church in Llandogo, Monmouthshire, Wales · Wikipedia
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Getting to St Briavels
- Airports
- Bristol (BRS), 40 km · Cardiff (CWL), 62 km · Birmingham (BHX), 100 km
- Stations
- St Briavels railway station, 2.4 km
- Cardiff → St Briavels47 km · quickest by road, 1h 27m · £6–8
- Birmingham, West Midlands → St Briavels97 km · quickest by road, 2h 28m · £11–15
- London → St Briavels175 km · quickest by road, 3h 29m · £19–26
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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 St Briavels
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 St Briavels. 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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Next door to St Briavels
St Briavels is 31 km from Bristol, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.
- Hewelsfieldvillage in Gloucestershire, England, UK2.4 km
- Llandogovillage in Monmouthshire, United Kingdom3.4 km
- Clearwellvillage in Gloucestershire, England, UK3.7 km
- Hewelsfield and Brockweircivil parish in Forest of Dean, Gloucestershire, England2.6 km
- Whitebrookhamlet in Monmouthshire, Wales, UK3.3 km