Place:


Cinderford  Gloucestershire

 

In 1870-72, John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales described Cinderford like this:

CINDERFORD, a chapelry in Forest of Dean, Gloucester; 3½ miles WNW of Newnham town and r. station. It has a post office ‡ under Newnham. Pop., 3, 180. Here are extensive iron-works. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Gloucester and Bristol. Value, £300.* Patron, the Crown. The church is modern, cruciform, and in the early English style. There are Baptist and Methodist chapels.

Cinderford through time

Cinderford is now part of Forest of Dean district. Click here for graphs and data of how Forest of Dean has changed over two centuries. For statistics about Cinderford itself, go to Units and Statistics.

How to reference this page:

GB Historical GIS / University of Portsmouth, History of Cinderford, in Forest of Dean and Gloucestershire | Map and description, A Vision of Britain through Time.

URL: https://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/place/20228

Date accessed: 28th March 2024


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