Cinderford
Cinderford is a Town in the county of Gloucestershire.
There are great places to visit near Cinderford including some great ancient sites, historic monuments, towns, parks, hills, woodlands, geological features, caves, old mines, airports, historic buildings, villages and cities.
Belas Knap Long Barrow, and Notgrove Long Barrow are some of Cinderford best ancient sites to visit near Cinderford.
There are a several good historic monuments in the area around Cinderford like Belas Knap Long Barrow.
There are a number of towns near Cinderford including Cheltenham, Coleford, and Cirencester.
Cinderford is near some unmissable parks like Pittville Park,
Cinderford is near some unmissable hills like Cleeve Hill,
The area around Cinderford's best woodlands can be found at Puzzlewood.
Places near Cinderford feature a number of interesting geological features including Puzzlewood.
Don't miss Clearwell Caves's caves if visiting the area around Cinderford.
There are a number of old mines near to Cinderford including Clearwell Caves.
Gloucestershire Airport is one of Cinderford's best, nearby airports to visit in Cinderford.
Cinderford has some unmissable historic buildings nearby like St. John Baptist Cirencester, and Gloucester Cathedral.
The area around Cinderford features a number of interesting villages including Duntisbourne Rouse, and Rodmarton.
Cities to visit near Cinderford include Gloucester.
Cinderford History
There are some historic monuments around Cinderford:
Places to see near Cinderford
History of Cinderford
A coke-fired furnace was established in around 1797. It was situated 800 metres north of Cinderford bridge and used coke brought from Broadmoor, to the north, by a short canal. The furnace struggled to compete with iron furnaces elsewhere, and fell idle ten years later. It was revived in 1829 when new works on the old site were established by the Forest of Dean Iron Company, and in 1841 there were three furnaces producing 12,000 tons of iron a year and employing 100 men and boys. Only one furnace at the works was in blast in 1890 and the works closed in 1894. By the 1840s Cinderford had a number of foundries and small engineering firms supplying the mining industry with machine parts, and it remained a centre for metal industries in the early 20th century. For many years coal mining was the principal industry in the area. Lightmoor coal mine was being deepened in the late 1830s. Trafalgar colliery which was in production in 1860, was the only large mine in the coalfield run by free miners in the later 19th century. Trafalgar closed in 1925. A deep mine, called Northern United, was begun north-west of Cinderford in 1933, but Lightmoor, with a workforce of 600 in 1934, was the main colliery in the Cinderford area until it closed in 1940. There were still many smaller collieries in the Forest of Dean, employing 84.5 per cent of the adult male population in the Cinderford area, until the industry declined in the 1960s.