Mile End is situated on the road leading northeast out of Coleford.

The road between Mile End and Poolgreen was known in 1317 as the Derkesty (later Dark Stile).

[1] Five cottages were built on Crown land on the Five Acres road at Mile End in 1787.

[3] The Primitive Methodists built a chapel, Mount Hermon, at Mile End in 1904.

[4] West Dean district council created a cemetery at Mile End for an area covering Milkwall, Berry Hill, and Lydbrook in 1967.