Coleford is a little market town in the west of the Forest of Dean, Gloucestershire, England, two miles (3.2 km) eastern of the Welsh boundary and also close to the Wye Valley. It is the administrative centre of the Forest of Dean district. The mixed 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 neighbor Cinderford. Today its prime area in the heart of the Forest makes it popular with pedestrians and also bikers, and the local council has actually made relocate to encourage further travelers. The huge manufacturing facility in the community, initially called Carters, then Beechams, then GlaxoSmithKline, is now possessed by the Japanese company Suntory. It is the single production facility for Ribena and also Lucozade. One old structure that has actually endured is the former goods shed for the inoperative train line to Monmouth; it is currently the Coleford GWR Museum. SPP Pumps Ltd, Britain's leading pump supplier also has their main UK producing site at Coleford which has over 300 individuals on site. The factory generally accommodates the Industrial and also offshore firefighting oil and also gas markets along with the UK metropolitan water market.