Wench Ford
 Situated
along the valley from Blakeney towards Parkend on the
B4431 is yet more evidence of Dean's industrial past,
notably at the Forestry Commission picnic site at Wench
Ford, where Blackpool Brook runs through a series of
man-made pools and channels which helped control water
flow to an iron furnace and forge at Blakeney. Apart
from being a popular picnic site (mainly because it
is one of the places with in the Forest where barbecues
are allowed), Wench Ford lies close to the Forest's
best known archaeological monument, the famous 'Dean
Road', which is situated at the north end of the picnic
site just through Blackpool Bridge which carried the
old Central Railway.
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