Woolaston
Woolaston is a village and civil parish in the Forest of Dean district of Gloucestershire in South West England.
Woolaston is a village and civil parish in the Forest of Dean district of Gloucestershire in South West England. It lies on the north side of the Severn Estuary approximately 5 miles from the Welsh border at Chepstow and is surrounded by woodland and agricultural land.
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Worth seeing in and around Woolaston
2 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.
- 01Hewelsfield 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.
2.6 km · scheduled monument in Gloucestershire, England · Wikipedia - 02Poor'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.
2.9 km · biological Site of Special Scientific Interest in Gloucestershire, UK · Wikipedia
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Getting to Woolaston
- Airports
- Bristol (BRS), 36 km · Cardiff (CWL), 61 km · Birmingham (BHX), 102 km
- Cardiff → Woolaston48 km · quickest by road, 1h 20m · £5–7
- Birmingham, West Midlands → Woolaston99 km · quickest by road, 2h 31m · £11–15
- London → Woolaston171 km · quickest by road, 3h 24m · £19–25
- 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 Woolaston
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 Woolaston. 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 Woolaston – the stand, the rule, the fare – tell us, and the note gets an entry.
Next door to Woolaston
Woolaston is 27 km from Bristol, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.
- Alvingtonvillage and civil parish in Forest of Dean, Gloucestershire, England1.8 km
- Aylburtonvillage in Gloucestershire, UK3.4 km
- Hewelsfieldvillage in Gloucestershire, England, UK2.6 km
- Hewelsfield and Brockweircivil parish in Forest of Dean, Gloucestershire, England3.1 km