Ruardean
Ruardean is a village in the Forest of Dean, Gloucestershire, England, to the west of Cinderford. It is located on a hillside with sights west towards the hills of South Wales. Little bit now remains of the village's commercial history, once it was a centre for iron ore smelting heating systems, creates as well as coal mines. The Norman castle, currently little bit greater than a mound, regulated the shortest route from Gloucester Castle to the Welsh Marches and the Wye Valley. The town has been, in times past, an essential centre of iron and coal mining, however little evidence stays of this facet of the town's background. The primary historic site of the town is Ruardyn Castle, near to the parish church. In the past the town was led to as Ruardyn and also became part of Herefordshire. Nowadays the village exists inside Gloucestershire and is part of the Forest of Dean area. Like much of the surrounding location, Ruardean has actually historically been reasonably poor; the 1831 demographics documents 127 families, with half the populace used in farming as well as 160 people on bad relief.
