Woolaston is a village and civil parish in the Forest of Dean district of Gloucestershire in South West England.

It lies on the north side of the Severn Estuary approximately 5 miles (8.0 kilometres) from the Welsh border at Chepstow and is surrounded by woodland and agricultural land.

[4] However, the old circular churchyard and the nearby Roman road, which ran just to the north-west of the church, suggest a much earlier holy site.

[8] They were evangelical Anglicans with a deep concern for the people of the Parish of Tidenham and in particular for those living in Woodcroft and, these being the distinctly rural areas where they most felt a need to evangelise.

Today the car has replaced the cart and the roads are lined with optical fibre broadband, but the countryside is still much as it was back then.