17-624: Hewelsfield is a village in Hewelsfield and Brockweir civil parish, in the Forest of Dean district of Gloucestershire , England. The village is located 6 miles south of Coleford and 5 miles north-east of Chepstow , close to the Wye valley and partly within an Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty . The area was known in the Anglo-Saxon period as Hiwoldestone . It was included by William
34-496: A Norman nave; an Early English chancel (restored in the 19th century); and a north transept enlarged in the 16th century. The churchyard is circular in form, which is often taken to suggest a pagan site or Celtic foundation. The area known as Hewelsfield Common, west of the village and sloping down to the River Wye , was occupied and developed in a piecemeal fashion by squatters in the 18th and early 19th centuries. Later in
51-551: A pair of limekilns, a milepost, two bridges and 12 houses. Lists of the listed buildings can be found in the Misplaced Pages articles on the villages of Hewelsfield and Brockweir . The parish contains six scheduled monuments : five sections of Offa's Dyke , and Hewelsfield Motte . The parish is served by the Brockweir and Hewelsfield Village Shop and Café , a non-profit making community enterprise, staffed by volunteers from
68-589: A short wooden steeple , but following the granting of a faculty in 1774, it was completely rebuilt. It was threatened with closure in 2007 but at the final Midnight Mass on Christmas Eve it was announced the Church will be saved. Stroat Church (previously known as Stroat Mission) is located three miles out of Woolaston on the A48 towards Chepstow. It has been involved in the village of Woolaston for over 120 years. Its history began with Squire Morgan and his family in
85-501: Is taken to include all buildings in the Civil Parish of Hewelsfield and Brockweir to the west of Offa's Dyke. Hewelsfield and Brockweir Hewelsfield and Brockweir is a civil parish in Forest of Dean District , Gloucestershire . The parish was called Hewelsfield until 1994. It contains two distinct villages, Hewelsfield and Brockweir , with scattered settlement on Hewelsfield common. Until 1842 Hewelsfield parish
102-554: The 1880s. They were evangelical Anglicans with a deep concern for the people of the Parish of Tidenham and in particular for those living in Woodcroft and, these being the distinctly rural areas where they most felt a need to evangelise. Scattered though the community was, the work they embarked upon at Woodcroft prospered. People came to worship from a wide area by whatever means they could, but mostly on foot or by horse and cart. Today
119-539: The 19th century, encouraged partly by the opening of the Wye Valley Railway on the Monmouthshire side of the river in 1876, private residents and retired people settled in the area and enlarged the cottages or built new houses. Hewelsfield, together with Brockweir, is served by the Brockweir and Hewelsfield Village Shop and Café , a non-profit making community enterprise, staffed by volunteers from
136-645: The Conqueror in the Royal Forest of Dean , but by the 12th century was established as a village, with a church. Ancient routes running up from the River Severn at Alvington and Woolaston met at Hewelsfield village and continued to the nearby village of St. Briavels . In 1266 the manor of Hewelsfield was granted to Tintern Abbey , which retained it until the Dissolution in 1536. Together with
153-571: The Moravian Church) was in Woolaston parish. In 1842 an adjoining tract of extraparochial land, which became known as Hewelsfield common, was added to Hewelsfield for civil parish purposes, uniting the detached parts of the parish. The parish was further enlarged in 1935 by the addition of an arm of Woolaston parish, extending down the south side of the valley of Brockweir brook to the Wye at
170-441: The abbey grange at Brockweir, the manor was then granted to Henry Somerset, 2nd Earl of Worcester . There is evidence of a small castle motte close to the church, and earthworks close to the castle suggest either a deserted medieval village or field boundaries. A separate ancient field system exists close to Hewelsfield Court. The village was designated a Conservation Area in 1990. The parish church of St. Mary Magdalen has
187-657: The local community. Woolaston Woolaston is a village and civil parish in the Forest of Dean district of Gloucestershire in South West England . It lies on the north side of the Severn Estuary approximately 5 miles (8.0 kilometres) from the Welsh border at Chepstow and is surrounded by woodland and agricultural land. Work has begun to develop the dairy into a small housing development. Recent developments have consolidated rather than expanded
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#1732794508775204-489: The local community. Listed buildings in the village of Hewelsfield are listed in the tables below, with links to the relevant Historic England list entry. Listed buildings in the village Brockweir are given in the Misplaced Pages article on Brockweir . For the purposes of the tables, 'Hewelsfield' is taken to include all buildings in the Civil Parish of Hewelsfield and Brockweir to the east of Offa's Dyke ; 'Brockweir'
221-457: The main A48 road and north of the main village. Here there is a small hamlet of houses and an area of common ground which, for the most part of the year, is covered in bracken. Adjoining the common is also another hamlet called Sandtumps. The village falls in the 'Hewelsfield and Woolaston' electoral ward . This ward stretches from Brockweir in the north east to Woolaston . The total population of
238-468: The village footprint. Traveling north west from Netherend with its primary school, village shop and 'The Netherend' pub, you pass what was once the Methodist chapel, then 'Birchwood Road', leading to a housing estate, the 'Ring Fence' a small lane with a number of cottages along it, the 'Rising Sun' one of the village's two public houses and the village allotments. Woolaston Common is about 1 mile from
255-516: The village of Brockweir. Hewelsfield and Brockweir Parish Council consists of 7 Councillors and a Clerk. It meets monthly, except in August, at the Brockweir and Hewelsfield Village Shop. The parish contains 36 listed buildings : two churches ( St Mary Magdalen, Hewelsfield and Brockweir Moravian Church ), a churchyard wall, 17 chest tombs (in the churchyard of St Mary Magdalen, Hewelsfield),
272-403: The ward taken at the 2011 census was 1,690. St. Andrew 's parish church at Woolaston is about a mile south west of Netherend along the A48 towards Chepstow. The earliest record of its existence is in 1131. However, the old circular churchyard and the nearby Roman road , which ran just to the north-west of the church, suggest a much earlier holy site. The Tower was originally a low one with
289-406: Was in three parts. The main part comprised farmland on high ground, having Hewelsfield village as its centre. Below and to the west, a detached part of only a few acres, Cutt's Orchard, lay on the north side of Brockweir brook. On the bank of the Wye another detached part included the part of Brockweir village lying north of Brockweir brook. The part of the village south of the brook (which included
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