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51°50′44″N2°34′39″W / 51.84558°N 2.57755°W / 51.84558; -2.57755 Coordinates: 51°50′44″N2°34′39″W / 51.84558°N 2.57755°W / 51.84558; -2.57755

Joy's Green is a village in the Forest of Dean in West Gloucestershire, England. [1] The village is in the civil parish of the neighbouring village of Lydbrook. [2]

Forest of Dean geographical, historical and cultural region in Gloucestershire, England

The Forest of Dean is a geographical, historical and cultural region in the western part of the county of Gloucestershire, England. It forms a roughly triangular plateau bounded by the River Wye to the west and northwest, Herefordshire to the north, the River Severn to the south, and the City of Gloucester to the east.

Gloucestershire County of England

Gloucestershire is a county in South West England. The county comprises part of the Cotswold Hills, part of the flat fertile valley of the River Severn, and the entire Forest of Dean.

Civil parish territorial designation and lowest tier of local government in England, UK

In England, a civil parish is a type of administrative parish used for local government, they are a territorial designation which is the lowest tier of local government below districts and counties, or their combined form, the unitary authority. Civil parishes can trace their origin to the ancient system of ecclesiastical parishes which historically played a role in both civil and ecclesiastical administration; civil and religious parishes were formally split into two types in the 19th century and are now entirely separate. The unit was devised and rolled out across England in the 1860s.

About Joys Green

The village of Joys Green which is still part of the Parish of Lydbrook now currently has no Village Shop or Post Office, which is hopefully going to be re-opened eventually. Neither does it have the Primary School which closed back in late 2008 to become a young peoples directorate, leaving all of the students there (at most 15 children) to transfer to the other local primary school in Lydbrook. The village still has its own playground with play equipment on and a small football pitch, this is currently situated where Joys Green Football Club pitch used to be. The Joys Green community centre is also still situated within the old primary school grounds and meetings regarding the local area are often either held there or at the Lydbrook Memorial Hall.

Lydbrook village in United Kingdom

Lydbrook is a civil parish in the Forest of Dean, a local government district in the English county of Gloucestershire. It is on the north west edge of the Forest of Dean's present legal boundary proper. It comprises the districts of Lower Lydbrook, Upper Lydbrook, Joys Green and Worrall Hill. It has a mile and a half long main street, reputed to be the longest main street of any village in England.

Recently Two Rivers Housing has invested in nearly five or six new properties and renovated a lot of properties within the area. As well as the new houses Joys Green is still home to the Edwards Close housing estate which was named after Edwards Coaches which were formerly based there and in Lydbrook.

The village shop, when it used to be open once ran an initiative to stop littering around the village which attracted the attention of BBC Points West, BBC National News and BBC Newsround. This was all aired in late 2008.

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References

  1. Ordnance Survey: Landranger map sheet 162 Gloucester & Forest of Dean (Map). Ordnance Survey. 2011. ISBN   9780319229118.
  2. "Ordnance Survey Election Maps". www.ordnancesurvey.co.uk. Ordnance Survey. Retrieved 3 April 2016.