Mitcheldean
Mitcheldean is a small town in the eastern of the Forest of Dean, Gloucestershire, England. The community is the most heavily populated location of 'Mitcheldean as well as Drybrook' selecting ward. This ward begins in the north east at Mitcheldean and also extends south westerly to Drybrook. The overall ward population taken at the 2011 census was 4,607. Mitcheldean was a successful neighborhood for several centuries as a result of the town's distance to iron ore down payments. Throughout the 19th century, the town expanded because of earnings generated by the neighborhood developing market. Like several of the Forest of Dean towns, Mitcheldean was a close-knit area with individual traditions. One of these was the locally renowned (or well known) Mitcheldean Prize Brass Band. It is clearly valued and described in a memoir by Arthur Bullock, a local of neighboring Longhope, whose papa and siblings were in it. Recounting the band's exploits, he comments, 'I only wish I might have been blessed to hear the Mitcheldean Prize Brass Band play when every one of the players were totally sober at the same time'. However, it is without a doubt serious to review his more reflection that the band should have been 'killed off by the 1914-18 war'. In the 20th century the community expanded better as a result of the Ranking Xerox photocopier manufacturing facility. Although this industry dramatically decreased throughout the latter half of the 20th century, much of the former Rank Xerox site (currently Vantage Point Business Village is currently occupied by small businesses, brand-new production and distribution organisations.
