Welcome to the enchanted world of Puzzlewood, a unique and ancient woodland in the heart of the Forest of Dean. Puzzlewood is a rare temperate rainforest and a popular filming location, which has featured in Star Wars, Doctor Who and many more.

Puzzlewood (grid reference SO578092) is an ancient woodland site and tourist attraction, near Coleford in the Forest of Dean, Gloucestershire, England. [1][2] The site, covering 14 acres (5.7 ha), shows evidence of open-cast iron ore mining dating from the Roman period, and possibly earlier.

Puzzlewood is an ancient woodland near Coleford in Gloucestershire, England, known for its moss-covered rocks, twisted trees, narrow paths, and unusual limestone formations. The atmospheric landscape creates a distinctive woodland experience in the heart of the Forest of Dean.

Visit Puzzlewood in the Forest of Dean, a unique ancient woodland with twisting paths, rocky ravines, and a magical setting seen in film and TV.

Book Puzzlewood tickets - day and group admission prices available. Check our seasonal opening times. Sorry no dogs allowed.

Puzzlewood is an ancient woodland attraction near Coleford in the Forest of Dean in Gloucestershire, built around scowles, a maze of deep, moss-covered rocky gullies and outcrops left where iron ore was dug out of the limestone from the Iron Age and Roman times onward.

Step into the magical world of Puzzlewood in the Forest of Dean. Discover ancient woodland, movie locations, and a perfect autumn walk.

Puzzlewood is consistently described as a magical and enchanting woodland, often likened to a fairytale setting and cited as a filming location for fantasy productions.

A pre-Roman open-cast iron mine, overgrown with eerie moss-covered trees, Puzzlewood is a 6-hectare woodland web of paths, weird rock formations, tangled vines, rickety bridges, uneven steps and dark passageways, all seemingly designed to disorientate.

If there’s a more magical forest in England, we haven’t found it yet. Puzzlewood is a place I’d wanted to visit for years after hearing that it was one of the woods that inspired Tolkien when writing The Lord of the Rings.