Nagshead SSSI, Nagshead

Name: Nagshead SSSI
Address: Nagshead, United Kingdom

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Nagshead SSSI is a 297 acres biological Site of Special Scientific Interest located within RSPB Nagshead, near Parkend, in the Forest of Dean, Gloucestershire. ()

Coordinates: 51°46'43"N, 2°34'8"W

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Nagshead United Kingdom

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Nagshead SSSI – popular in the area (distance from the attraction)

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

2.4 miSE
Museum
Dean Forest Railway, Lydney
61 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.
3.6 miE
History museum, Museum, Science museum
Dean Heritage Centre, Forest of Dean
92 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.
1.9 miW
Museum, Mine, Cave
Clearwell Caves
50 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.
2 miW
Nature, Natural attraction, Forest
Puzzlewood
50 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.
2.2 miNW
Museum, Specialty museum
Coleford Great Western Railway Museum
56 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.
1.1 miW
Archaeological site
Darkhill Ironworks, Forest of Dean
30 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 miW
Forts and castles
Clearwell Castle
65 min walk • Clearwell Castle in Clearwell, the Forest of Dean, Gloucestershire, is a Gothic Revival house constructed from 1727. Built by Thomas Wyndham to the designs of Roger Morris, it is the earliest Georgian Gothic Revival castle in England predating better-known examples such as Strawberry Hill House by over twenty years.
4 miS
Museum, Archaeological museum
Lydney Park
102 min walk • Lydney Park is a 17th-century country estate surrounding Lydney House, located at Lydney in the Forest of Dean district in Gloucestershire, England. It is known for its gardens and Roman temple complex.
3.2 miSE
51°44'9"N • 2°32'20"W
Dean Forest Railway, Lydney
83 min walk • Museum
2 miN
Park, Vernacular architecture
Forest of Dean Sculpture Trail, Forest of Dean
53 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.
3.3 miNW
Nature, Natural attraction, Cave
Slaughter Stream Cave, Letcombe Valley
86 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.