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Astridge Wood

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Astridge Wood is one of 136 Sites of Special Scientific Interest in Gloucestershire. It lies inside the Wye Valley National Landscape. Lydney Station is about 11 km away to the south-east. Other SSSIs nearby include Tudor Farm Bank, Dingle Wood and Old Bow and Old Ham Mines.

More places to visit near Astridge Wood

Photo of the Wye Valley, a National Landscape in England and Wales.Highlight

Wye Valley

You’re inside itNational Landscape near Monmouth

A wooded river gorge winding along the Wales–England border, past Tintern Abbey down to Chepstow.

Photo along the Offa's Dyke Path, a 177-mile National Trail running from Chepstow to Prestatyn, Wales and England.Highlight

Offa's Dyke Path

National Trail

The length of the Welsh borders, tracking the eighth-century earthwork that once divided kingdoms.

0.6 km W · spans 8 counties

Photo of the River Wye, a river navigation running from Hay-on-Wye to Bigsweir Bridge, England and Wales.

River Wye

River navigation

Britain's canoeing river, running lock-free down its wooded border gorge from Hay past Ross and Symonds Yat to the tide at Bigsweir.

1 km W · spans 4 counties

Photo of The Whitebrook, a restaurant near Penallt in the Wye Valley, Monmouthshire, south east Wales.Highlight

The Whitebrook

Restaurant · With rooms near Penallt

Foraging-driven restaurant with rooms hidden in the wooded Wye Valley.

2.7 km SW

Photo of Puzzlewood, a visitor attraction near Newland, Gloucestershire, south west England.Highlight

Puzzlewood

Attraction near Newland

Fourteen acres of moss-grown scowles — ancient iron workings — threaded with boardwalks; film crews from Doctor Who to Star Wars treat it as off-the-shelf fairyland.

3.2 km E

Photo of Clearwell Caves, a cave near Newland, Gloucestershire, south west England.Highlight

Clearwell Caves

Cave near Newland

Ancient iron-ore mine in the Forest of Dean, its worked-out caverns open to visitors underground.

3.2 km E