Mitcheldean is a village in the east of the Forest of Dean, Gloucestershire, England. The town is one of the most populous area of 'Mitcheldean as well as Drybrook' electoral ward. This ward begins in the north eastern at Mitcheldean and stretches south western to Drybrook. The complete ward population taken at the 2011 census was 4,607. Mitcheldean was a thriving area for numerous centuries due to the community's closeness to iron ore down payments. Throughout the 19th century, the community expanded as a result of revenues generated by the local developing industry. Like several of the Forest of Dean towns, Mitcheldean was a close-knit community with private customs. Among these was the locally famous (or well known) Mitcheldean Prize Brass Band. It is vividly loved and also explained in a memoir by Arthur Bullock, a local of neighboring Longhope, whose father and also brothers remained in it. Stating the band's exploits, he comments, 'I just want I could have been privileged to listen to the Mitcheldean Prize Brass Band play when all of the gamers were fully sober at the same time'. Nevertheless, it is certainly sobering to review his additional reflection that the band should have been 'exterminated by the 1914-18 war'. In the 20th century the town grew further as a result of the Ranking Xerox copy machine manufacturing facility. Although this sector significantly decreased throughout the latter fifty percent of the 20th century, much of the former Rank Xerox site (currently Vantage Point Business Village is now inhabited by small companies, new production and circulation companies.