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In the 18th century residents of Berry Hill are recorded as working as stone cutters, and in the 19th century there were working coal mines in the Berry Hill area. [1] After 1840 many new cottages and houses were built at Berry Hill and Five Acres, and in 1874 the area, including nearby Joyford and Shortstanding, had 295 houses. [2]
Coleford had eight or more houses in 1349 and was described as a street in 1364. It had a place of worship by 1489. In 1642 the commander of a parliamentary garrison in Coleford started a market in the town, as the nearest chartered market in Monmouth was under royalist control. [3] Coleford soon saw some action in the English Civil War.
East Dean Grammar School of Cinderford, formed in 1929, merged with Bells Grammar School of Coleford in 1968 to form the Royal Forest of Dean Grammar School on a new site. Bell's Grammar School had a history dating back to 1445 when a school was founded by Joan Greyndour . [ 3 ]
Early building at Coalway was on or near the road between Coleford and Parkend, which was diverted southwards after it was turnpiked in 1796. [2] There was a beerhouse at Coalway by 1841, and this had expanded to three public houses by the late 1870s. The Plough (opposite ‘The Rec’) The Britannia Inn on Coalway cross and The Crown Inn.
The Speech House was the administrative building of the Forest of Dean in Gloucestershire, England, lying at the centre of the forest on the road from Coleford to Cinderford. [ 1 ] The building was originally constructed as a hunting lodge for Charles II and the Speech House was authorised by the Dean Forest Act 1667 ( 19 & 20 Cha. 2 .
Coleford is a village and civil parish in Somerset, England, situated on the Mells River in the Mendip Hills five miles west of Frome. The parish has a population of 2,313 in 2011. The parish has a population of 2,313 in 2011.
In the early modern period the valley south of the village was the site of tanneries, such as Tan House and in 1695 the road there was known as Barkhouse Lane from that trade, but in the 20th century it was called Laundry Road then Laundry Lane. West of the hill three or four houses stood by Black brook, above its crossing by French Lane, in ...
Mile End is situated on the road leading northeast out of Coleford. The road between Mile End and Poolgreen was known in 1317 as the Derkesty (later Dark Stile). [1] It was an important route from Mitcheldean, and in the later 17th century traffic between Gloucester and South Wales used this route.
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