Mile End, Gloucestershire

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Mile End
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Country England
Sovereign state United Kingdom
Post town Coleford
Postcode district GL16
Dialling code 01594
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51°48′12″N2°36′00″W / 51.8033°N 2.5999°W / 51.8033; -2.5999 Coordinates: 51°48′12″N2°36′00″W / 51.8033°N 2.5999°W / 51.8033; -2.5999

Mile End is a small village in the English county of Gloucestershire. It belongs to the civil parish of Coleford, which is also its post town. Mile End is 1 mile (1.6 km) northeast of Coleford. The village lies at the western edge of the Forest of Dean. The village merges with the village of Broadwell to the south.

Gloucestershire County of England

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

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Coleford, Gloucestershire town in the west of the Forest of Dean, Gloucestershire, England

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History

Mile End is situated on the road leading northeast out of Coleford. The road between Mile End and Poolgreen was known in 1317 as the Derkesty (later Dark Stile). [1] It was an important route from Mitcheldean, and in the later 17th century traffic between Gloucester and South Wales used this route. [1]

Mitcheldean town

Mitcheldean is a small town in the east of the Forest of Dean, Gloucestershire, England.

South Wales Region of Wales

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Five cottages were built on Crown land on the Five Acres road at Mile End in 1787. [2] The inn originally known as the Royal Forester opened by the mid 1870s. [3] The Primitive Methodists built a chapel, Mount Hermon, at Mile End in 1904. [4] West Dean district council created a cemetery at Mile End for an area covering Milkwall, Berry Hill, and Lydbrook in 1967. [5]

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West Dean Rural District

West Dean Rural District was a rural district in Gloucestershire, England, from 1894 to 1974. It comprised a number of civil parishes, including, confusingly, one called West Dean, and gained further territory in 1935.

Milkwall village in United Kingdom

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References

  1. 1 2 Coleford, Victoria County History
  2. ↑ Forest of Dean: Settlement, Victoria County History
  3. ↑ Forest of Dean: Social life, Victoria County History
  4. ↑ Forest of Dean: Protestant nonconformity, Victoria County History
  5. ↑ Forest of Dean: Local government and public services, Victoria County History

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