Hi Tony - Are you sure that the name Sodum came from the Forest of Dean? My husband's 2x Gt Grandfather (Edward Howells) was born in English Bicknor. On 1861 Census he was living in a place called Gomorrah, which was an area nicknamed after the Bible's Sodom & Gomorrah. We have since found out that the area he lived was actually Pontlottyn, S. Wales. (near Rhymney). Hope this information might help you.
Regards Anne Martin

Modern OS map - http://getamap.ordnancesurvey.co.uk/getamap/frames.htm?mapAction=gaz&gazName=g&...

http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1264268

Wet Wood is on the road from Speech House towards New Fancy, just past Boysgrave Oak.

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

Hi Tony, PEG here from Sydney, Australia.
I grew up in Parkend, we lived in the last but 1 house (Newhaven - known as "the doctor's house" by some people) at the top of Fancy Rd going towards The Barracks from the mid 1960s to the mid 1980s.
The forest on the opposite side of the road running out to Boy's Grave was always known to me as "The Wet Wood"
Interestingly, my GGGrandparents Thomas & Harriet Gwynne lived in The Square from around 1871, but I have not been able to find out which number in The Square they lived.
Can anyone out there help me here?

PEG

Sodom is another name for Mitcheldean