Coleford is a little market community in the west of the Forest of Dean, Gloucestershire, England, two miles (3.2 kilometres) east of the Welsh border as well as close to the Wye Valley. It is the management centre of the Forest of Dean area. The consolidated population of the two selecting wards in Coleford at the 2011 census was 8,359. Coleford adapted a lot more competently to the mine closures of the 1950s than its neighbor Cinderford. Today its prime place in the heart of the Forest makes it prominent with pedestrians and also cyclists, as well as the regional council has made moves to urge further vacationers. The big factory in the community, initially called Carters, then Beechams, then GlaxoSmithKline, is currently owned by the Japanese company Suntory. It is the sole production facility for Ribena and Lucozade. One old structure that has actually survived is the previous goods shed for the defunct train line to Monmouth; it is now the Coleford GWR Museum. SPP Pumps Ltd, Britain's leading pump maker likewise has their major UK manufacturing site at Coleford which has over 300 individuals on site. The factory mostly deals with the Industrial as well as offshore firefighting oil as well as gas markets as well as the UK local water market.