The Forest of Dean: An Historical and Descriptive AccountGood Press, 26.11.2019 - 1940 Seiten As one can guess from the title, this book revolves around the region called Forest of Dean, which is a geographical, historical and cultural region in the western part of the county of Gloucestershire, England. It forms a roughly triangular plateau bounded by the River Wye to the west and northwest, Herefordshire to the north, the River Severn to the south, and the City of Gloucester to the east. The area is characterized by more than 110 square kilometers (42 sq mi) of mixed woodland, one of the surviving ancient woodlands in England. A large area was reserved for royal hunting before 1066, and remained as the second largest crown forest in England, after the New Forest. Although the name is used loosely to refer to the part of Gloucestershire between the Severn and Wye, the Forest of Dean proper has covered a much smaller area since the Middle Ages. In 1327, it was defined to cover only the royal demesne and parts of parishes within the hundred of St Briavels, and after 1668 comprised the royal demesne only. The Forest proper is within the civil parishes of West Dean, Lydbrook, Cinderford, Ruspidge, and Drybrook, together with a strip of land in the parish of English Bicknor. |
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A D 16631692 | |
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THE ORIGINAL OCCUPIERS OF THE FOREST | |
CHAPTER X | |
APPENDIX | |
Papers preserved in the Lansdowne Collection at the British Museum | |
One of the Dean Forest Claims put in at the Justice Seat held in Gloucester Castle 10 | |
No III | |
Mr Wyrralls Survey of the Forest of Dean Iron Works in 1635 | |
Dr Parsons description of the mode of making Iron | |
Being Minutes c of the Court of Mine | |
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