Dean Forest Railway, Lydney

Name: Dean Forest Railway
Address: Forest Road, GL15 4ET, Lydney, United Kingdom

#1 among attractions in Lydney

Top attraction, Museum

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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. ()

Coordinates: 51°44'53"N, 2°32'38"W

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Forest Road, GL15 4ETLydney United Kingdom

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Dean Forest Railway – popular in the area (distance from the attraction)

Nearby attractions include: St Briavels Castle, Dean Heritage Centre, Clearwell Caves, Puzzlewood.

4.2 miW
Forts and castles
St Briavels Castle, Lydney
107 min walk • St Briavels Castle is a moated Norman castle at St Briavels in the English county of Gloucestershire. The castle is noted for its huge Edwardian gatehouse that guards the entrance.
3.9 miNE
History museum, Museum, Science museum
Dean Heritage Centre, Forest of Dean
101 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.
3.3 miNW
Museum, Mine, Cave
Clearwell Caves
86 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.
3.6 miNW
Nature, Natural attraction, Forest
Puzzlewood
93 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.
4.3 miNW
Museum, Specialty museum
Coleford Great Western Railway Museum
110 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.
2.9 miNW
Archaeological site
Darkhill Ironworks, Forest of Dean
75 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.
3.7 miW
Forts and castles
Clearwell Castle
94 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.
1.9 miS
Museum, Archaeological museum
Lydney Park
50 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.
0.9 miS
51°44'9"N • 2°32'20"W
Dean Forest Railway, Lydney
23 min walk • Museum
1.7 miSE
51°43'36"N • 2°31'32"W
Lydney Community Centre, Lydney
43 min walk • City hall
4.1 miN
Park, Vernacular architecture
Forest of Dean Sculpture Trail, Forest of Dean
104 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.