Coleford is a tiny market town in the west of the Forest of Dean, Gloucestershire, England, two miles (3.2 km) east of the Welsh border as well as near the Wye Valley. It is the management centre of the Forest of Dean district. The mixed population of both electoral wards in Coleford at the 2011 census was 8,359. Coleford adapted much more competently to the mine closures of the 1950s than its neighbor Cinderford. Today its prime location in the heart of the Forest makes it preferred with walkers as well as bicyclists, and also the regional council has actually made moves to urge additional travelers. The big manufacturing facility in the community, initially called Carters, after that Beechams, then GlaxoSmithKline, is now had by the Japanese company Suntory. It is the single production facility for Ribena and also Lucozade. One old building that has actually made it through is the former goods shed for the defunct railway line to Monmouth; it is now the Coleford GWR Museum. SPP Pumps Ltd, Britain's leading pump producer additionally has their primary UK producing website at Coleford which has more than 300 individuals on site. The factory primarily caters to the Industrial and also offshore firefighting oil as well as gas markets in addition to the UK metropolitan water market.