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Forest of Dean
WWW pages and sites of interest

There are several tourist interest index sites for the area, but digging a little deeper turns up a lot of less high profile pages of interest!

Index, this page

• Activities
• Archeology
• Books and photos
• Castles, Gardens, Zoos etc.
• Events
• Gardens, Castles, Zoos etc.
• Genealogy
• Geography
• History
• Local food
• Local tourism. news and interest
• Local government
• Nature and Natural History
• Speleology (Caving)
• Other Clubs and societies in the area
• WWW pages about the forest of Dean
• Zoos, Castles, Gardens etc.

• Activities
  • Forest of Dean Angling club is based in Cinderford. Day tickets are £7 on the bank or £6 from the shops.
  • Redhill Extreme Bike and board centre
    offer mountain boarding and biking in the Forest of Dean.
  • PedalbikeAway at Cannop Cycle Centre,
    in the centre of the forest. Their site has links to other local activities, sites and attractions.
  • Forest of Dean Riding Club
  • Go Ape - an outdoor activity centre.
  • Walks around Monmouthshire and Newport. Caldicot & district University of the Third Age. Includes wheelchair friendly walks.
• Archeology
  • Bristol & Gloucestershire Archaeological Society
  • Dean Archaeological Group
  • Gloucestershire Society for Industrial Archaeology
    has lots of local interest.
• Books and photos
  • Books: Black Dwarf Lightmoor publish books about the Forest of Dean
  • Photographs: Sun Green has a collection of old photographs of the Forest of Dean on line.
  • Forest Prints sell old prints and have a lot on their www site.
  • Francis Frith has many old photographs
• Castles, Gardens, Zoos etc.
  • Castles
    • Berkeley Castle
    • Eastnor Castle
    • Goodrich Castle
    • Monmouth Castle
    • Raglan Castle
    • Skenfrith Castle
    • Sudeley Castle
    • Tintern Abbey
    • White Castle
  • Gardens
    • Dewstow Hidden Gardens and Grottoes
    • Gloucestershire Gardens open for charity
    • Monmouthshire Gardens
    • Painswick Rococo Garden
    • Westbury Court Water Gardens
  • Zoos
    • Bristol Zoo
    • Dick Whittington Farm Park in Longhope, very close to Green Bottom.
• Events
  • Events calendar Royal Forest Of Dean site.
• Genealogy
  • Forest-of-Dean.net run a forum for family history.
• Geography
  • british-genealogy.com has a page describing Green Bottom
• History
  • Forest of Dean archeology pages on Green Bottom's own site.
  • Forest of Dean History Society
  • British History Society has an on-line History of Gloucestershire
    Volume 5 covers the History of the Forest of Dean
  • There is an article on The Free Miners of The Royal Forest Of Dean
  • a well-hidden page on Forest of Dean, has an extract from a tourist guide of 1888
• Local food
  
  We have our own page of pubs, restaurants etc. that we or our visitors have tried or simply fancy.
  • Fresh trout from Green Bottom Pumping Station: now a fish farm.
  • Wild food gathering is easy in this part of tthe world. The link is to my own site of Food For Free.
  • UK Cider have a page on Gloucestershire
• Local tourism, news and interest
  • Forest of Dean Miscellany by Edward Hunt is worth exploring
  • Forest Web is a local community site with lots of tourist information
  • Gloucestershire's local newspapers The Forester is the Forest's paper.
  • Royal Forest of Dean site has lots of information
  • Visit Forest of Dean is good
  • Wye Valley and Forest of Dean many things to do. Link is to their "12 easy walks" page.
• Local government
  • Littledean Parish Council www site
  • Forest of Dean District Council
• Nature and Natural History
  • Gloucestershire Naturalists' Society
  • Gloucestershire Wildlife Trust
  • Gloucestershire Geology Trust
  • Cotswold Fungus Group
  • Gwent Fungus Group
  • Forest of Dean fungus Group exists, but has no www site.
• Speleology (Caving)
  • Royal Forest of Dean Caving Club
  • Gloucester Speleological Society
  • Hades Caving Club
• Other Clubs and societies in the area
  • Photography: Forest of Dean Camera club
  • Newent & District Camera Club
  • Rambler's association have a Forest of Dean group
  • Gloucester Choral Society
  • Forest of Dean Cave Conservation and Access Group Dave Tuffley-01594 824343. Dave is the Permit Secretary for FoDCCAG, the
  • Gloucestershire Federation of Gardening Societies
  • Bream Gardening Society
  • Mitcheldean and Abenhall Gardening Club
• WWW pages about the forest of Dean
  • ESF-COST European Project has a page about mining etc in the forest.

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