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A History of the County of Gloucester
… system of the Forest of Dean has its roots principally in the missionary work of Anglican ministers in the early 19th century. P. M. Procter led the way in 1813 … with help from Edward Machen and Charles Bathurst of Lydney Park and were cruciform for use also as chapels. Next …
A History of the County of Gloucester
… Forest administration FOREST ADMINISTRATION EARLY HISTORY. In the earliest reference to the Forest of Dean as an … and William de Beauchamp, earl of Warwick, who was lord of Lydney manor, 6 served in the early 1270s. William Hathaway, … craft, based at landing places on the Severn in Lydney, Aylburton, and Awre, carried on a regular traffic in stolen …
A History of the County of Gloucester
… a rich and distinct industrial history. The Forest lies in a basin formed by carboniferous strata and is almost … of coal and iron ore. The coal measures, which outcrop in three roughly concentric circles near the edge of the … on ore carried on the river, being farmed to Pain of Lydney for £24. Other royal revenue came from a toll on …
A History of the County of Gloucester
… Introduction THE FOREST OF DEAN The Forest of Dean lies in west Gloucestershire in the angle formed by the rivers Severn and Wye as they … Bicknor parish, and at Kidnalls and the Snead, north of Lydney parish, removed from the royal demesne by 1668 but …
A History of the County of Gloucester
… and other functions of parish government were unusual. In the 1670s and the following decades a few people, mostly … women, one of them a foster mother, received regular help in 1726 98 and a child abandoned at St. White's was reared at … West Gloucestershire Power Co. from its Norchard works, at Lydney, was first used for street lighting. 63 Abbotswood and …
A History of the County of Gloucester
… of early Foresters is fragmentary. The Baptist church in the Forest area in 1653 was evidently in Weston under … attended by George Fox in 1668 17 was presumably at Aylburton. 18 Baptist and possibly Methodist preachers made … Hill, where a Baptist minister active in Blakeney and Lydney lived in 1841, 54 a Primitive Methodist chapel was …
A History of the County of Gloucester
… Forest of Dean Roman catholicism ROMAN CATHOLICISM In the early 19th century priests from the Monmouth mission … visited parts of the Forest of Dean 5 and a few people in the Lydbrook area were members of a Roman Catholic … Our Lady of Victories 11 and was given a parish including Lydney and Mitcheldean. In 1992 it had an average …
A History of the County of Gloucester
… the Forest of Dean settlement before the 18th century was in the form of makeshift cabins inhabited by ironworkers, … charcoal burners, and others while their operations were in progress or until they were expelled by the Forest … of goats. 82 Moseley Green near Parkend, Oldcroft above Lydney, Whitecroft near Bream, Mirystock above Lydbrook, and …
A History of the County of Gloucester
… Forest of Dean Social life SOCIAL LIFE In the 18th century the remote scattered settlements of the … Despite certain improvements, 94 the Foresters continued in the early 19th century to display many of those traits … was amalgamated with weekly newspapers for Coleford and Lydney in 1991. 67 Vernacular literature of the Forest region …
Calendar of Patent Rolls, Edward I
… [co. Hants], forest of, 592. Aliens, precautions against, in time of war, 151. Alincestre. See Alcester. Alinton. See … 590. See Alard. Aylbryghton, Adam son of Ralph de, 325. Aylburton, Aylberton [co. Gloucester], 187. Aylesbury, … Lydlinch, Lydelinch [co. Dorset], church of, 265. Lydney, Lydeneye [co. Gloucester], 283. Lye, Humphrey de, …