Hi Is there a web-site that tells you distances ,in miles between two places?
My grandfather Hubert POWELL is said to have walked from Coleford(where he was born in1855)to Newbridge Monmouthshire(now called Caerphilly).I found an entry in the electoral rolls for Newbridge which shows his brother Benjamin lodging with a family in 1812 so I guess they came together.
Sylvia

http://www.transportdirect.info/

Plan a car route between the two places and you will get a route (modern) and a distance.

i.e. Coleford - > Caerphilly

Summary of directions Total distance 42.5 miles 68.3 km
Total duration 1 hrs 11 min
Distance units miles km
B4228; A4136; A466; A40; A449; A472; A4042; A467; A469; A468; B4600; B4263;

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Ἀριστοτέλης A Gloster & Hereford Boy in the Forest of Dean ><((((*>

Hi
My thanks again to Slowhands for his help
Sylvia

Hi Sylvia

Try a little programme that you can download called Parloc, short for Parish Locator. A very useful little programme. I use it a lot. It gives 30 miles from Coleford to Caerphilly. It will also give you parishes within a particular radius from a stated place i.e. find parishes within 6 miles from Coleford.It helps a lot when searching for "lost " rellies who may have strayed locally.

Just type Parloc into Google and follow the directions.

Bye
Dawn

Parish locator programme is also linked to via this website. Go to Resources and Links option from home page and look under Towns and Villages tab.

I agree it is useful and helps to identify which church records are close enough to look at it if your ancestors dont appear in the most obvious parish.

I have enlarged the Forest of Dean Parish Map (Google) we have on the website to make it easier to view and see which parishes are located close to each other.

From the map page you can now also find out the distance between any two parishes by entering the parish names in the from and to boxes.

You can access the map from the show map link on the Parish Records search page or directly by going to:
http://www.forest-of-dean.net/maps/forestmap.php

Hi
Thanks a lot for your reply and to everyone else who answered my request. I was trying to find out how many miles(roughly) my grandfather had to walk from Coleford to Newbridge in Monmouthshire .I reckon it was about seventy-five miles
Sylvia

Guesstimate 35 miles and an hour by car today

by foot 2 days covering upto 20 miles / day ?

1 Starting from Coleford, Gloucestershire
2 -- Follow MARKET PLACE straight on
3 0.0 0.1 Immediately turn left on to B4228 (BANK STREET), continue for 2.0 km1.2 miles
4 1.3 2.0 Turn left on to A4136 (STAUNTON ROAD), continue for 6.6 km4.1 miles
5 5.4 8.7 At mini-roundabout follow A4136 straight on
6 5.5 8.8 At mini-roundabout follow A466 straight on, continue for 0.2 km0.2 miles
7 5.6 9.0 Take second available left on to A40, continue for 10.2 km6.4 miles
8 12.0 19.3 Follow A449 straight on, continue for 8.2 km5.1 miles
9 17.1 27.5 Take second available left on to A472, continue for 9.7 km6.0 miles
10 23.1 37.2 Follow A472 (Slip Road) straight on
11 23.2 37.3 Follow A4042 (USK ROAD) straight on, continue for 0.7 km0.4 miles
12 23.6 38.0 Take second available exit off roundabout on to A4042 (USK ROAD), continue for 1.4 km0.9 miles
13 24.5 39.4 Take first available exit off roundabout on to A4042, continue for 1.7 km1.1 miles
14 25.5 41.1 Take fourth available exit off roundabout on to A472, continue for 1.4 km0.9 miles
15 26.4 42.5 Take first available exit off roundabout on to A472, continue for 7.4 km4.6 miles
16 31.0 49.9 Follow A472 (Slip Road) straight on
17 31.1 50.0 Follow A467 straight on, continue for 2.0 km1.2 miles
18 32.3 52.0 Take third available exit off roundabout on to local road, continue for 0.4 km0.3 miles
19 32.6 52.4 Follow BRIDGE STREET straight on
20 32.6 52.5 Follow HIGH STREET straight on
21 32.7 52.7 Take second available left on to local road, continue for 0.2 km0.1 miles
22 32.9 52.9 Arrive at Newbridge, Caerphilly

Miles Time(mins)

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Ἀριστοτέλης A Gloster & Hereford Boy in the Forest of Dean ><((((*>

Hi
Thanks to Slowhands for all the work he`s put into answering my query-much appreciared
Sylvia