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A Topographical Dictionary of England
… This parish, which is bounded on the north by the river Severn, and intersected by the road from Shrewsbury to …
A History of the County of Gloucester
… was probably confined to the high land away from the river Severn, for the Severn shore between Highnam, near Gloucester, and the … and villages in an area bounded on the south-east by the Severn from Over bridge, adjoining Gloucester, to the mouth …
A History of the County of Gloucester
… to schools in Mitcheldean, Littledean, and Westbury-on-Severn, 37 and the building became an annexe of the county's …
A History of the County of Gloucester
… of the tithes of venison from his forests of Dean and the Severn area c. 1105, addressed to his foresters, huntsmen, … and Herefordshire manors in an area bounded by the rivers Severn and Wye and extending as far north as Newent. As … 62 Owners of river craft, based at landing places on the Severn in Lydney, Aylburton, and Awre, carried on a regular …
A History of the County of Gloucester
… mines and ½ d. for every load of coal carried on the river Severn, the toll, which was apparently also levied on ore … loaded on boats and barges plying on the rivers Wye and Severn. There were numerous pitching places on the banks of … century Brockweir handled ore bound for Ireland. 41 On the Severn some ore was shipped at Lydney Pill in the 1650s, and …
A History of the County of Gloucester
… in west Gloucestershire in the angle formed by the rivers Severn and Wye as they approach their confluence. A large … used loosely for the part of Gloucestershire between the Severn and Wye, but all that land belonged to the Forest … to the north-east of the main block, with Westbury-on-Severn in another volume. Woods at Mailscot, near English …
A History of the County of Gloucester
… that of East Dean being included in the Westbury-on-Severn union and that of West Dean in the Monmouth union. 8 … relief and there were hunger marches to the Westbury-on-Severn workhouse. 23 Road building figured among schemes to … Mitcheldean, Littledean, and Purton passage on the river Severn and the Dean road linking Mitcheldean with Newnham and …
A History of the County of Gloucester
… later 18th century. The road from Purton passage on the Severn ran over Viney hill and through Parkend where it … next to it in 1873. 56 From 1874 a viaduct carrying the Severn & Wye railway high across the Lydbrook valley was a … of ironworks there and the construction of the Severn & Wye tramroad alongside Cannop brook, it became the …