Summer 2002. The Village of Awre is situated in the County of Gloucestershire and is in rural England, (UK), on the outskirts of the Royal Forest of Dean, its tucked in just below, Newnham-On-Severn and the Great Horse Shoe Bend on the banks of the Grand Old, River Severn, (National Grid Reference: SO708081).he purpose of this website is to give an insight to the past and present as what the quality of village life was like in bygone day's, compared with life of the modern villager. Using graphical photographs and text interview's form the people of Awre.