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Pillowell
Pillowell is a small village in Gloucestershire, England. ==Description== Pillowell sits on the south-eastern edge of the Forest of Dean. Its coordinates are 51.75° N 02.55° W. It is located 0.6 miles to the east of Whitecroft and 0.6 miles to west of Yorkley, and was established as a mining village. Its current population stands at about 250, with a housing stock of 101. There is a late 19th-century Methodist chapel. Much of the village lies within a conservation area.〔(Retrieved 19 October 2010. )〕 The village school is called Pillowell Community Primary School. Founded in the 19th century,〔(Retrieved 19 October 2010. )〕 it briefly became nationally known in 1973, when the children, under their music teacher Mrs Davies, sang "I'm Forever Blowing Bubbles" as the signature tune for the Forest of Dean chronicler Winifred Foley's ''A Child of the Forest'', when it was serialized on BBC ''Woman's Hour''.〔Winifred Foley: Introduction. In: ''A Child of the Forest'' (London: Futura, 1977), p. 10. ISBN 0-86007-491-9.〕 The poet F. W. Harvey (1888–1957) spent the last part of his life in the village.〔(Retrieved 19 October 2010. )〕
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