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Brockweir
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Brockweir is a village in Hewelsfield and Brockweir civil parish, in the Forest of Dean District of Gloucestershire, England. The civil parish also includes the separate village of Hewelsfield.
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Place details
- Locality
- Tintern
- Region
- Cymru / Wales
- Country
- United Kingdom
- Population
- 750
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- village
- Country
- United Kingdom
- Located in
- Hewelsfield and Brockweir
- Official website
- www.hewelsfieldandbrockweirpc.org.uk
- Image
- Brockweir Moravian Church - geograph.org.uk - 204791.jpg
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- Commons category
- Brockweir
- postal code
- NP16
- OS grid reference
- SO539011
- P12749
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Encyclopedic overview
10 sectionsContents
- History
- Shipbuilding
- Notable residents
- Moravian Church
- Brockweir’s Pubs
- Village Community Shop
- Listed buildings in Brockweir
- References
- Further reading
- External links
Brockweir is a village in Hewelsfield and Brockweir civil parish, in the Forest of Dean District of Gloucestershire, England. The civil parish also includes the separate village of Hewelsfield.
The village is located on the eastern bank of the River Wye. A road bridge links it across the river to Monmouthshire, Wales, about a mile (1.6 km) outside the village of Tintern and north of Chepstow. The village is close to both the Offa's Dyke Path and the Wye Valley Walk.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Brockweir” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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