Visit Coalway Places

Welcome to Visit Coalway Places
The Walkfo guide to things to do & explore in Coalway

  

Coalway Places Overview: History, Culture & Facts about Coalway

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Coalway history

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An ancient route known in 1345 as the coal way ran north-westwards from the Forest boundary at Coalway Lane End and down Lord’s hill to join the main road through Coleford. Known later as Coller Lane, it was used by travellers from the Purton passage on the River Severn in the later 17th century.

You can visit Coalway places with Walkfo Coalway to hear history at Coalway’s places whilst walking around using the free digital tour app. Walkfo Coalway has 43 places to visit in our interactive Coalway map, with amazing history, culture & travel facts you can explore the same way you would at a museum or art gallery with information audio headset. With Walkfo, you can travel by foot, bike or bus throughout Coalway, being in the moment, without digital distraction or limits to a specific walking route. Our historic audio walks, National Trust interactive audio experiences, digital tour guides for English Heritage locations are available at Coalway places, with a AI tour guide to help you get the best from a visit to Coalway & the surrounding areas.

“Curated content for millions of locations across the UK, with 43 audio facts unique to Coalway places in an interactive Coalway map you can explore.”

Walkfo: Visit Coalway Places Map
43 tourist, history, culture & geography spots

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Coalway historic spots	Coalway tourist destinations	Coalway plaques	Coalway geographic features
Walkfo Coalway tourism map key: places to see & visit like National Trust sites, Blue Plaques, English Heritage locations & top tourist destinations in Coalway

  

Best Coalway places to visit

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Coalway has places to explore by foot, bike or bus. Below are a selection of the varied Coalway’s destinations you can visit with additional content available at the Walkfo Coalway’s information audio spots:

Old Bow and Old Ham Mines Old Bow And Old Ham Mines (grid reference SO579088) is a 40.3-hectare (100-acre) biological Site of Special Scientific Interest in Gloucestershire, notified in 1998.

Wimberry Quarries Wimberry Quarries (grid reference SO594121) is a 2-hectare (4.9-acre) nature reserve in Gloucestershire. The site is listed in the ‘Forest of Dean Local Plan Review’ as a Key Wildlife Site.

Clearwell Caves Clearwell Caves, at Clearwell in the Forest of Dean, Gloucestershire, is a natural cave system which has been extensively mined for iron ore. The caves are part of a Natural England designated Site of Special Scientific Interest.

Tudor Farm Bank Tudor Farm Bank (grid reference SO573081) is a 3.68-hectare (9.1-acre) biological Site of Special Scientific Interest in Gloucestershire, notified in 1999.

Spion Kop Quarry Spion Kop Quarry (grid reference SO598103) is a 0.7-hectare nature reserve in Gloucestershire in the Forest of Dean. The site is listed in the ‘Forest of Dean Local Plan Review’ as a Key Wildlife Site (KWS)

Slaughter Stream Cave Slaughter Stream Cave, also known as Wet Sink, is a cave system in the Wye Valley, Forest of Dean. A series of fixed ladders and two pitches lead to sporting streamways, sandy crawls and fossil passages. An episode of Extreme Archaeology was filmed in this cave.

Nagshead SSSI Nagshead SSSI is a 297 acres (120 ha) biological Site of Special Scientific Interest located in the Forest of Dean, Gloucestershire. It is listed in the ‘Forest of Dean Local Plan Review’ as a Key Wildlife Site.

Darkhill Ironworks Darkhill Ironworks and Titanic Steelworks are internationally important industrial remains associated with the development of the iron and steel industries. They are located on the edge of a small hamlet called Gorsty Knoll, in the Forest of Dean, Gloucestershire.

Clearwell Castle Clearwell Castle in Clearwell, Gloucestershire, was built by Thomas Wyndham to the designs of Roger Morris in 1727. It is the earliest Georgian Gothic Revival castle in England predating better-known examples such as Strawberry Hill House by over twenty years.

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