Laymoor Quag

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Laymoor Quag is a 3.5-hectare nature reserve within the Forest of Dean in Gloucestershire. The site is listed in the 'Forest of Dean Local Plan Review' as a Key Wildlife Site. ()

Created: 1982Coordinates: 51°49'45"N, 2°31'2"W

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Laymoor Quag – popular in the area (distance from the attraction)

Nearby attractions include: Dean Heritage Centre, Kerne Bridge, Westbury Court Garden, May Hill.

2.8 miSE
History museum, Museum, Science museum
Dean Heritage Centre, Forest of Dean
71 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.
4.8 miNW
Bridge
Kerne Bridge, Lydbrook
123 min walk • Kerne Bridge was built over the River Wye in the County of Herefordshire, England in 1825-28, on the site of an ancient ford crossing known as Flanesford. It is designated as a Scheduled Monument. Carrying the B4229 road, it connects the parishes of Walford on the river’s left bank and Goodrich on the right.
4.6 miE
Park, Garden
Westbury Court Garden
118 min walk • Westbury Court Garden is a Dutch water garden in Westbury-on-Severn, Gloucestershire, England, 9 miles southwest of Gloucester. It was laid out in 1696–1705, a rare survival not to have been replaced in the 18th century by a naturalistic garden landscape as popularised by Capability Brown.
5.2 miNE
Nature, Natural attraction, Hill
May Hill
133 min walk • May Hill is a prominent English hill between Gloucester and Ross-on-Wye. Its summit, on the western edge of Gloucestershire and its northern slopes in Herefordshire, is distinguishable by a clump of trees on its summit, which forms an official Site of Special Scientific Interest.
4.8 miNW
Park
Coppet Hill, Letcombe Valley
124 min walk • Coppet Hill or Coppett Hill is a local nature reserve in the parish of Goodrich near Ross-on-Wye in Herefordshire.
4.9 miSW
Museum, Specialty museum
Coleford Great Western Railway Museum
126 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.
2.6 miW
Church
Holy Jesus Church, Lydbrook
66 min walk • Holy Jesus Church at Lydbrook is a Church of England parish church in the English county of Gloucestershire.
2 miNE
Park
Plump Hill
51 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.
2.9 miE
Monastery
Flaxley Abbey
73 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.
2.2 miSW
Park, Vernacular architecture
Forest of Dean Sculpture Trail, Forest of Dean
56 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.
3.9 miW
Nature, Natural attraction, Cave
Slaughter Stream Cave, Letcombe Valley
100 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.