Mitcheldean is a village in the eastern of the Forest of Dean, Gloucestershire, England. The community is the most populous location of 'Mitcheldean and Drybrook' selecting ward. This ward starts in the north east at Mitcheldean and also stretches southern westerly to Drybrook. The total ward population taken at the 2011 census was 4,607. Mitcheldean was a growing neighborhood for lots of centuries due to the community's distance to iron ore down payments. Throughout the 19th century, the community grew due to revenues produced by the neighborhood brewing sector. Like numerous of the Forest of Dean towns, Mitcheldean was a dense neighborhood with private customs. Among these was the in your area well-known (or well known) Mitcheldean Prize Brass Band. It is strongly remembered as well as described in a memoir by Arthur Bullock, a homeowner of neighboring Longhope, whose father as well as siblings were in it. Stating the band's exploits, he comments, 'I only wish I could have been privileged to hear the Mitcheldean Prize Brass Band play when all of the gamers were totally sober at the same time'. Nonetheless, it is undoubtedly serious to review his further representation that the band need to have been 'exterminated by the 1914-18 war'. In the 20th century the community expanded even more due to the Rank Xerox copy machine factory. Although this sector dramatically decreased throughout the latter fifty percent of the 20th century, a lot of the former Rank Xerox site (now Vantage Point Business Village is now inhabited by local business, new manufacturing and also circulation services.
