Hewelsfield and Brockweir is a

civil parish In England, a civil parish is a type of administrative parish used for local government. It is a territorial designation which is the lowest tier of local government below districts and counties, or their combined form, the unitary authorit ...

Forest of Dean District Forest of Dean is a local government district in Gloucestershire, England, named after the Forest of Dean. Its council is based in Coleford. Other towns and villages in the district include Blakeney, Cinderford, Drybrook, English Bicknor, H ...

Gloucestershire Gloucestershire ( abbreviated Glos) is a county in South West England. The county comprises part of the Cotswold Hills, part of the flat fertile valley of the River Severn and the entire Forest of Dean. The county town is the city of Gl ...

. The parish was called Hewelsfield until 1994. It contains two distinct villages,

Hewelsfield 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 ...

and

Brockweir 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 th ...

, with scattered settlement on Hewelsfield common.

History

Until 1842 Hewelsfield parish 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 the Moravian Church) was in

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 kilometres) from the Welsh border at Chepstow and is surr ...

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 the village of Brockweir.

Parish council

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.

Listed Buildings

The parish contains 36

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s: two churches ( St Mary Magdalen, Hewelsfield and Brockweir Moravian Church), a churchyard wall, 17 chest tombs (in the churchyard of St Mary Magdalen, Hewelsfield), a pair of limekilns, a milepost, two bridges and 12 houses. Lists of the listed buildings can be found in the Wikipedia articles on the villages of

and

Scheduled Monuments

The parish contains six

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s: five sections of

Offa's Dyke Offa's Dyke ( cy, Clawdd Offa) is a large linear earthwork that roughly follows the border between England and Wales. The structure is named after Offa, the Anglo-Saxon king of Mercia from AD 757 until 796, who is traditionally believed to ha ...

, and Hewelsfield Motte.

Community Shop

The parish is served by the Brockweir and Hewelsfield Village Shop and Café, a non-profit making community enterprise, staffed by volunteers from the local community.

References

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External links

Hewelsfield and Brockweir Parish CouncilBrockweir and Hewelsfield Village Shop and Café
Civil parishes in Gloucestershire Forest of Dean