Places and People Forest of Dean
- About the Forest of Dean
- Abenhall, Gloucestershire
- Anchor Inn, Lydbrook
- Ariconium, Herefordshire
- Arthur and Edward Colliery
- Bigsweir, Gloucestershire
- Bishopswood, Herefordshireshire
- Bixslade (Bicslade)
- Blakeney, Gloucestershire
- Bloomery (definition)
- Bradley House
- Bream, Gloucestershire
- Bullo Pill, Gloucestershire
- Cannop Colliery
- Cinderford, Gloucestershire
- Clearwell, Gloucestershire
- Coleford, Gloucestershire
- Collieries
- Crawshay, Henry
- Danby Lodge
- Darkhill Brick, Colliery + Ironworks
- Dates in the Forest of Dean
- Dean Forest (Mines) Act 1838
- Dean Forest Railway
- Dean Forest (Reafforestation)
Act 1668 - The Dean Forest Riots
- Dean Hall, Littledean
- Dean Heritage Centre
- Dean Road
- Drybrook, Gloucestershire
- Eastern United Colliery
- Fairplay Iron Mine
- Findall Iron Mine
- Flaxley, Gloucestershire
- Forest of Dean Central Railway
- Free Miners
- Green Bottom
- Gunns Mill
- The Haie (house + tunnel)
- Harvey, F. W.
- Hopewell Engine Colliery
- Horlick, James and William
- Kings Lodge
- Lightmoor Colliery
- Littledean, Gloucestershire
- Lower Redbrook, Gloucestershire
- Lydbrook, Gloucestershire
- Lydney, Gloucestershire
- Mining and Forest Terms
- Mitcheldean, Gloucestershire
- Mushet, David and Robert
- Nelson Colliery
- Newland, Gloucestershire
- Newnham, Gloucestershire
- Northern United Colliery
- Offas Dyke
- Parkend, Gloucestershire
- Pillowell, Gloucestershire
- Protheroe, Edward
- Pubs of the Forest of Dean
- Purton, Gloucestershire
- Redbrook, Gloucestershire
- Ruardean, Gloucestershire
- Severn and Wye Railway Co.
- Severn Bridge Railway
- Shakemantle Iron Mine
- Speech House
- Speech House Hill Colliery
- St Briavels Castle
- St Briavels, May-pole
- Strip-and at-it Colliery
- Symonds Yat
- Teague, James
- Teague, Moses
- Trafalgar Colliery
- Tramroad
- True Blue Colliery
- Union Colliery
- Upper and Middle Forge
- Upper Lydbrook Station
- Upper Mill, Edge Hills
- Upper Redbrook
- Verderer (definition)
- Verderers' Court
- Welshbury Hill Fort
- Westbury Brook Iron Mine
- Whitecliff Furnace
- Whitecliff House
- Whitecliff Quarry
- Whitecroft
- Whitecross Manor
- Wigpool, Gloucestershire
- Wintour, Sir John
Bloomery (definition)
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A Bloomery is a type of furnace where iron ore is smelted removing the oxides. Charcoal was used, burning at high temperatures, but also adding carbon to the end product. Bloomeries were used from the Iron Age onwards (hence the term) and was used as a process over 3000 years ago. It is estimated that by the thirteen century more than 40 bloomeries were operating in the Forest of Dean, in an area of about 35 square miles. However there was no mass industrialisation over this period, rather local miners and labourers working the local iron ore, some of them on a part time basis.
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