This was one of the first books put together by Lightmoor Press and  it has now been republished in an extended format with extra  photographs to add to the history of this industrialised village in  the heart of the Forest of Dean. The author looks in depth at the  history of the village which once had ironworks, tinplate works,  collieries and stone works as well as a railway station and tramroad  interchange wharf. The text is supported by many photographs maps,  plans and other ephemera to fully document the fascinating story of  the terminus of the Dean Forest Railway.



The derelict but still majestic ironworks await their fate in this  view taken about 1880. The three furnaces are to the left of the  engine house; the two earlier ones are enclosed within the stone  structure and the later steel encased furnace is on their right. In  front of them are the casting sheds.



A Severn & Wye passenger train at Parkend bound for Lydney in about  1922.