Mitcheldean is a town in the east of the Forest of Dean, Gloucestershire, England. The community is one of the most heavily populated location of 'Mitcheldean and also Drybrook' electoral ward. This ward begins in the north eastern at Mitcheldean and also extends southern westerly to Drybrook. The overall ward population taken at the 2011 census was 4,607. Mitcheldean was a growing community for numerous centuries because of the town's proximity to iron ore down payments. During the 19th century, the town expanded because of incomes generated by the regional developing industry. Like several of the Forest of Dean towns, Mitcheldean was a dense neighborhood with private traditions. One of these was the in your area renowned (or infamous) Mitcheldean Prize Brass Band. It is strongly remembered and described in a memoir by Arthur Bullock, a resident of close-by Longhope, whose papa and also siblings remained in it. Stating the band's ventures, he comments, 'I only desire I could have been privileged to hear the Mitcheldean Prize Brass Band play when all of the gamers were completely sober at the same time'. Nonetheless, it is certainly sobering to review his further representation that the band have to have been 'killed off by the 1914-18 war'. In the 20th century the community grew further because of the Rank Xerox photocopier manufacturing facility. Although this market considerably declined during the latter fifty percent of the 20th century, a lot of the previous Rank Xerox site (currently Vantage Point Business Village is now inhabited by small companies, brand-new manufacturing and also distribution companies.