 Coleford tithing became a separate civil parish in 1894, and the detached parts were added to other parishes between 1883 and 1935.A short distance north of the village () stood the Newland Oak, which it is claimed had the largest circumference of any Common Oak ("Quercus robur") ever recorded.Measurements taken by the Royal Scottish Arboricultural Society in 1898 record that the tree had a girth of ) at a height.