Village in Gloucestershire, England

Ruardean

Ruardean is a village in the Forest of Dean, Gloucestershire, England, to the North West of Cinderford.

Every way there

Bristol → Ruardean
45 km · quickest by road, 1h 26m · £5–7
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Cardiff → Ruardean
60 km · quickest by road, 1h 38m · £7–9
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Birmingham, West Midlands → Ruardean
83 km · quickest by road, 2h 11m · £10–13
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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.

The field note

What is in and around Ruardean, ranked by how widely it is written about, how you reach it, and the nearest places where we have researched how people move.

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What Ruardean has

YScheduled flightsBristol (BRS), 54 km
FTrains and coachesTransitous carries 3 timetable feeds for this country, 2 with real-time; a stop for a place this small is unverified
NFerriesno crossing within 25 km
YDriving and taxiOpenStreetMap roads; cab fare from the country band
NBike and scooter shareno share feed known
NCruisesno open itinerary source anywhere

Y routable now · F found, not yet implemented · N no source known. Nearest place with more: Gloucester, 21 km.

51.854°, -2.550°

It is situated on a hillside with views west towards the mountains of South Wales. Little now remains of the village's industrial history, but once it was a centre for iron-ore smelting furnaces, forges and coal mines. The Norman castle, now little more than a mound, commanded the shortest route from Gloucester Castle to the Welsh Marches and the Wye Valley.

Text adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0. Photograph: The original uploader was StephenDawson at English Wikipedia (see Commons), Wikimedia Commons.