Coleford
Coleford is a small market town in the west of the Forest of Dean, Gloucestershire, England, 2 miles (3.2 km) east of the Welsh boundary as well as near the Wye Valley. It is the management centre of the Forest of Dean district. The consolidated population of both electoral wards in Coleford at the 2011 census was 8,359. Coleford adjusted extra ably to the mine closures of the 1950s than its neighbour Cinderford. Today its prime place in the heart of the Forest makes it popular with pedestrians and bikers, and the regional council has made transfer to urge further visitors. The huge factory in the community, originally called Carters, after that Beechams, after that GlaxoSmithKline, is currently owned by the Japanese company Suntory. It is the single manufacturing facility for Ribena and also Lucozade. One old building that has actually endured is the former goods shed for the obsolete train line to Monmouth; it is currently the Coleford GWR Museum. SPP Pumps Ltd, Britain's leading pump supplier additionally has their main UK manufacturing site at Coleford which has over 300 people on site. The manufacturing facility generally accommodates the Industrial and overseas firefighting oil and also gas markets in addition to the UK metropolitan water market.