Foxes Bridge Bog

#7568 among destinations in the United Kingdom

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Foxes Bridge Bog is a 5.3-hectare nature reserve in Gloucestershire. The site is owned by the Forestry Commission and is managed by the Gloucestershire Wildlife Trust in partnership with the Forestry Commission. The site is listed in the 'Forest of Dean Local Plan Review' as a Key Wildlife Site. ()

Created: 1977Coordinates: 51°48'37"N, 2°32'14"W

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Foxes Bridge Bog – popular in the area (distance from the attraction)

Nearby attractions include: Dean Forest Railway, Dean Heritage Centre, Clearwell Caves, Puzzlewood.

4.3 miS
Museum
Dean Forest Railway, Lydney
111 min walk • The Dean Forest Railway is a 4+1⁄4-mile long heritage railway that runs between Lydney and Parkend in the Forest of Dean, Gloucestershire. The route was part of the former Severn and Wye Railway which ran from Lydney to Cinderford.
2.4 miSE
History museum, Museum, Science museum
Dean Heritage Centre, Forest of Dean
62 min walk • The Dean Heritage Centre is located in the valley of Soudley, Gloucestershire, England in the Forest of Dean and exists to record and preserve the social and industrial history of the area and its people.
4.2 miSW
Museum, Mine, Cave
Clearwell Caves
107 min walk • Clearwell Caves, at Clearwell in the Forest of Dean, Gloucestershire, England, is a natural cave system which has been extensively mined for iron ore. It now operates primarily as a mining museum.
4 miSW
Nature, Natural attraction, Forest
Puzzlewood
102 min walk • Puzzlewood is an ancient woodland site and tourist attraction, near Coleford in the Forest of Dean, Gloucestershire, England. The site, covering 14 acres, shows evidence of open-cast iron ore mining dating from the Roman period, and possibly earlier.
3.6 miW
Museum, Specialty museum
Coleford Great Western Railway Museum
92 min walk • Coleford Great Western Railway Museum is a railway museum located in Coleford, Gloucestershire, England. The museum was founded in 1988. Based in the former GWR Goods Shed along the Coleford Railway. There was also another station situated at Coleford, it was opened by the Severn and Wye Railway.
3.4 miSW
Archaeological site
Darkhill Ironworks, Forest of Dean
88 min walk • Darkhill Ironworks, and the neighbouring Titanic Steelworks, are internationally important industrial remains associated with the development of the iron and steel industries. Both are scheduled monuments.
2.5 miNW
Church
Holy Jesus Church, Lydbrook
65 min walk • Holy Jesus Church at Lydbrook is a Church of England parish church in the English county of Gloucestershire.
3.5 miNE
Park
Plump Hill
91 min walk • Plump Hill Dolomite Quarry is a 4.5-hectare nature reserve in Gloucestershire in the Forest of Dean. The site is managed by the Gloucestershire Wildlife Trust and held under agreement with the Forestry Commission since 1982.
4.1 miNE
Monastery
Flaxley Abbey
105 min walk • Flaxley Abbey is a former Cistercian monastery in England, now a Grade I listed manor and private residence, near the village of Flaxley in the Forest of Dean, Gloucestershire. It is the former seat of the Crawley-Boevey Baronets.
0.7 miSW
Park, Vernacular architecture
Forest of Dean Sculpture Trail, Forest of Dean
18 min walk • The Forest of Dean Sculpture Trail is a point of interest in the Forest of Dean in the county of Gloucestershire, England. The Sculpture Trail links several different site-specific sculptures commissioned for the forest.
3.1 miW
Nature, Natural attraction, Cave
Slaughter Stream Cave, Letcombe Valley
79 min walk • 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.