Category: Heritage Sites


Speculation Colliery

Speculation Level was galed to the Morrell brothers in 1841, but no work was done and it passed to Corneleus Brain around 1847. Read More


Speech House Hill Colliery

The first recorded working of the Royal Forester gale was in the 1830s and 40s by Richard James, but it was bought by the Brain brothers, who had the adjoining... Read More


Speedwell Newbridge Colliery

The Speedwell gale was first worked in the 1730s. In 1881 the western section was leased by Goodrich Langham, who, in partnership with Richard, and later Edward, Searle, began development... Read More


St Andrew's Church Alvington

Just two small reminders of the Norman church remain, the chancel north window, and the south west corner of the nave. Read More


St Andrew's Church Awre

St Andrew’s is built of coursed rubble and ashlar and comprises chancel, nave with north aisle and south porch, and 15th century west tower, which is embattled and has three... Read More


St Andrew's Church Woolaston

Built of Old Red Sandstone, the church consists of chancel, nave, south aisle, north tower, and south porch. Read More


St Briavels Castle

St Briavels Castle stands in the village of St Briavels on the edge of a ridge about 200 yards above the River Wye. Read More


St Briavels Station

St Briavels station, on the Wye Valley Railway between Chepstow and Monmouth, was built in 1876, and open with the line on 1 November that year. Read More


St James' Church Bream

St James Church was built in 1860 to a design by William White. The building consists of a nave with a north aisle consisting of four bays supported by marble... Read More


St Joseph's Roman Catholic Church Lydney

From the 1940s Roman Catholics heard mass in various centres in Lydney, but in 1977 a small church was built at the north-east end of Newerne and opened as a... Read More

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