67 7 9
Lydbrook 227 2 1.5
Slope Pit 17 8 7.5
Nail Bridge 19 18 1
Drybrook 205 1 1
The Stenders 58 15 11.5
Plump Hill 144 16 7.5
Little Lane End 34 13 10
St. White's 81 19 8
Little Dean 99 0 7
Woodside
Reden Horne 16 7 8.5
Howler's Slade 14 19 8.5
Bream 73 12 6
Park End 145 5 2.5
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Total 1,331 4 7.5

All these roads are now in excellent repair, but they have been,
nevertheless, compelled to yield to the superior advantages of the
railway system, here grafted, as is the case in some other places, upon
the useful but less perfect tramway. {198}

In the years 1809 and 1810 a local Act authorised the construction of an
extensive system of tramways throughout the Forest, under the auspices of
"the Severn and Wye" and "Bullo Pill" Companies, traversing respectively
the western and eastern sides of the district. The latter of these, the
tramway which descends the eastern valley through Cinderford and Sowdley
to the Severn, passed into the hands of the South Wales Railway Company,
who purchased it in 1849, with the view of forming it into a locomotive
road; and this they effected after great difficulty, in consequence of
being obliged to carry on the trade upon the tramway at the same time,
and opened it on the 14th July, 1854. Its present length, extending from
Bullo Pill to the Churchway Colliery, is nearly seven miles. There is a
branch from it of three-quarters of a mile to the Whimsey, another of one
mile and a half to the Lightmoor Colliery, one of three-quarters of a
mile to the Crump Meadow Colliery, one of a quarter of a mile to the
Nelson Colliery, and a shorter one to the Regulator Pits. It is a single
line, constructed throughout on the broad-gauge principle, and for the
present only conveys minerals. A central line, in addition to the above,
is in course of formation. The tramwa