Coleford
Coleford is a tiny market community in the west of the Forest of Dean, Gloucestershire, England, 2 miles (3.2 km) eastern of the Welsh boundary and also close to the Wye Valley. It is the management centre of the Forest of Dean district. The combined population of the two electoral wards in Coleford at the 2011 census was 8,359. Coleford adjusted a lot more competently to the mine closures of the 1950s than its neighbour Cinderford. Today its prime area in the heart of the Forest makes it popular with pedestrians as well as bicyclists, as well as the regional council has made moves to encourage further visitors. The huge factory in the town, originally called Carters, after that Beechams, then GlaxoSmithKline, is currently owned by the Japanese firm Suntory. It is the sole manufacturing facility for Ribena and also Lucozade. One old structure that has endured is the former goods shed for the inoperative train line to Monmouth; it is now the Coleford GWR Museum. SPP Pumps Ltd, Britain's leading pump maker likewise has their major UK making website at Coleford which has more than 300 people on site. The manufacturing facility generally deals with the Industrial and overseas firefighting oil as well as gas markets as well as the UK metropolitan water market.
