[PDF] The Forest Of Dean eBook

Author : Mike Dunn
Publisher : Cicerone Press Limited
Page : 195 pages
File Size : 12,19 MB
Release : 2013-04-22
Category : Travel
ISBN : 1849658994

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A guidebook to 25 day walks in the Forest of Dean. Exploring the beautiful scenery of Gloucestershire between the Rivers Severn and Wye, the walks are suitable for beginner and experienced walkers alike. The walks range in length from 6–26km (4–17 miles) and can be enjoyed in 2–10 hours. There are 21 circular routes and 4 longer, linear walks that cover sections of long-distance trails, including the Offa’s Dyke Path and Gloucestershire Way. 1:50,000 OS maps reproduced at 1:40,000 for each walk Detailed information on planning, public transport and local history Easy access from Gloucester, Lydney and Chepstow Local points of interest include Yat Rock

Author : Humphrey Phelps
Publisher : Amberley Publishing Limited
Page : 263 pages
File Size : 16,24 MB
Release : 2008-11-15
Category : Photography
ISBN : 1445625792

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Covers various aspects of the Forest of Dean. This title describes the successive invasions from Romans to tourists.

Author : Ross Andrews
Publisher : Amberley Publishing Limited
Page : 213 pages
File Size : 19,16 MB
Release : 2010-03-15
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 1445630028

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Join Ross Andrews on his journey through the magical haunted Forest of Dean.

Author : H.G. Nicholls
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 32,33 MB
Release : 2018-09-21
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 3734047226

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Reproduction of the original: The Forest of Dean by H.G. Nicholls

Author : H. G. Nicholls
Publisher : Good Press
Page : 177 pages
File Size : 16,4 MB
Release : 2019-11-26
Category : Travel
ISBN :

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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.

Author : Winifred Foley
Publisher : Abacus
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 49,58 MB
Release : 2009-04-02
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0748111417

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Winifred Foley grew up in the 1920s, a bright, determined miner's daughter - in a world of unspoilt beauty and desperate hardship, in which women were widowed at thirty and children died of starvation. Living hand-to-mouth in a tumbledown cottage in the Forest of Dean, Foley - 'our Poll' - had a loving family and the woods and streams of a forest 'better than heaven' as a playground. But a brother and sister were dead in infancy, bread had to be begged from kindly neighbours and she never had a new pair of shoes or a shop-bought doll. And most terrible of all, like her sister before her, at fourteen little Poll had to leave her beloved forest for the city, bound for a life in service among London's grey terraces.