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.

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

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.

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.

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.

This is a really great place to visit and is an intriguing and enchanting woodland situated on the edge of The Forest of The Dean and Coleford, Gloucestershire.

Immerse yourself in the enchanting world of Puzzlewood. Explore a mile of meandering pathways and enter a landscape of strange craggy moss-covered rocks and caves, twisted trees and lush vegetation all teeming with wildlife.

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.

Puzzlewood is a unique and magical ancient woodland in The Forest of Dean just outside Coleford. Explore the mile and a half of winding pathways through a labyrinth of unique mossy rock formations, intricate wooden bridges and fantastic tree canopy with leafy lookouts.