Geograph - photograph every grid square

The road climbs west from Mitcheldean to Drybrook.

One of the many boundary stone delineating the periphery of the "Forest of Dean". The "Forest" is very specific because resident have "rights in common" like grazing sheep and coal mining, though you may have... (more)

Entrance to Water Works at Mitchdeanmeend.

Marked as a road on the 1940's map, now just a track through Mitcheldean Meend.

A small commercial estate on the site of an old cement works.

Taken from The Stenders Road. The quarry is now a Nature Reserve.

Stenders Road behind the camera is renamed The Stenders ahead. A sign shows bends for ½ mile.

This track soon becomes a footpath across fields and descends to the playing fields in Mitcheldean. Nearby Pingery Tump (aka Pinary Tump) was once the site of a gallows; the last man to be hanged there was Eli Hatton, who had stolen a sheep.

Opposite the Mitcheldean Water Treatment Works is this short row of birches - all standing tall and straight except for this one which looks as if it is dowsing. The map shows the area behind as forest - it appears to have been cleared and replanted.

An area of forest recently felled, to the east of the Water Works.

Set in stone, and plastic, this all looks very officious, but I guess a Statutory Forest has to identify itself. Wouldn't want anyone mistaking it for one of those Casual Forests you see around the place.