Brockweir, Gloucestershire, NP16 7NG

Date of visit: 30th Sept 2021

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Brockweir is a village in Hewelsfield and Brockweir civil parish, in the Forest of Dean District of Gloucestershire, England. The civil parish also includes the separate village of Hewelsfield.

The village is located on the eastern bank of the River Wye. A road bridge links it across the river to Monmouthshire, Wales, about a mile (1.6 km) outside the village of Tintern and 7+1⁄2 miles (12.1 km) north of Chepstow. The village is close to both the Offa’s Dyke Path and the Wye Valley Walk.

Brockweir is first attested in an annotation on the now lost place-name Pull Brochuail (Welsh pwll ‘pool, lake, pit’ + Welsh personal name Brochfael) in the Book of Llandaff, in a charter dated to c. 620. All later spellings of Brockweir, however, suggest the present place-name is derived from Old English brōc ‘brook’ + wer. Brockweir is located where a small brook meets the Wye; however, there remains the possibility that the first element might be a shortened form of the personal name Brochfael.

Internal ref number: GL/162/051

Date of Visit: 30th Sep 2021

Kiosk Type: K6
Door Type: C
Crown: Tudor
Kiosk Colour: Red
Usage: Defrib
Phone Number (if known): EX 01291 689259

Northing & Westing: 51°42’26.2″N, 2°40’02.6″W
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Grid Reference: SO 53981 01159
OS X & Y: 201159, 353981
Latitude & Longitude: 51.707269, -2.667384
UK Postcode: NP16 7NG
County: Gloucestershire


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