Coleford
Coleford is a tiny market community in the west of the Forest of Dean, Gloucestershire, England, two miles (3.2 kilometres) east of the Welsh boundary and also close to the Wye Valley. It is the administrative 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 much more competently to the mine closures of the 1950s than its neighbor Cinderford. Today its prime area in the heart of the Forest makes it preferred with walkers and bicyclists, and also the local council has actually made transfer to motivate further travelers. The large factory in the town, originally called Carters, then Beechams, after that GlaxoSmithKline, is currently possessed by the Japanese firm Suntory. It is the sole manufacturing facility for Ribena and also Lucozade. One old structure that has actually made it through is the previous goods shed for the inoperative railway line to Monmouth; it is currently the Coleford GWR Museum. SPP Pumps Ltd, Britain's leading pump producer likewise has their primary UK manufacturing site at Coleford which has more than 300 people on site. The manufacturing facility mostly accommodates the Industrial and overseas firefighting oil and also gas markets along with the UK municipal water market.
