Coleford
Coleford is a small market community in the west of the Forest of Dean, Gloucestershire, England, 2 miles (3.2 km) eastern of the Welsh boundary and also near the Wye Valley. It is the administrative centre of the Forest of Dean area. The consolidated population of the two electoral wards in Coleford at the 2011 census was 8,359. Coleford adapted extra competently to the mine closures of the 1950s than its neighbour Cinderford. Today its prime area in the heart of the Forest makes it popular with walkers and also bikers, and the regional council has made moves to urge additional tourists. The huge manufacturing facility in the town, initially called Carters, after that Beechams, after that GlaxoSmithKline, is currently owned by the Japanese company Suntory. It is the single manufacturing facility for Ribena and also Lucozade. One old building that has endured is the previous goods shed for the defunct train line to Monmouth; it is now the Coleford GWR Museum. SPP Pumps Ltd, Britain's leading pump supplier also has their major UK producing site at Coleford which has more than 300 individuals on site. The factory generally caters to the Industrial and overseas firefighting oil and also gas markets as well as the UK metropolitan water market.