Coleford
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 as well as close to the Wye Valley. It is the management centre of the Forest of Dean district. The mixed population of both electoral wards in Coleford at the 2011 census was 8,359. Coleford adapted much more capably 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 cyclists, and the local council has actually made transfer to encourage further tourists. The big factory in the town, initially called Carters, after that Beechams, after that GlaxoSmithKline, is now had by the Japanese firm Suntory. It is the sole manufacturing facility for Ribena as well as Lucozade. One old building that has actually survived is the former goods shed for the obsolete train line to Monmouth; it is currently the Coleford GWR Museum. SPP Pumps Ltd, Britain's leading pump producer also has their major UK manufacturing website at Coleford which has over 300 people on site. The factory generally deals with the Industrial and offshore firefighting oil and also gas markets in addition to the UK community water market.
