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Abbots Wood : Photographs
Admiral of the White : Spanish Armada
All Saints, Newland: The Tomb of Jenkin Wyrhale in Newland Churchyard
Almshouses, Newland: The Tomb of Jenkin Wyrhale in Newland Churchyard
American Troops : The Yankee Cinema
Ammunition Supply Dumps (ASDs)
Anglo-Saxons : Christian Church of the Celts
Anglo-Saxons : key dates in Forest history - 577 A.D.
Archenfield : Anglo-Saxon Chronicles
Archenfield : Christian Church of the Celts
Ariconium : Anglo-Saxon Chronicles
Ariconium : Dean Road (the Roman Road)
Armada : Spanish Armada King Arthur: The Holy Grail and the Forest of Dean
Arthur, King : Mabinogion
Arthur, King : Pelleas and Ettarre by Alfred, Lord Tennyson
Arthur, King : Storyline
auditorium : The Yankee Cinema
badger, sheep : sheep badgers
Bailey Level : Gold in the Forest of Dean
Battle of Dyrham : key dates in Forest history - 577 A.D.
A Beast with two Backs : Who Killed the Bears?
Edward Bell: The Tomb of Jenkin Wyrhale in Newland Churchyard
Berry Hill : Dennis Potter
Berry Hill : Ley lines
Bicknor: The Tomb of Jenkin Wyrhale in Newland Churchyard
Bicknor Court: The Tomb of Jenkin Wyrhale in Newland Churchyard
Blackpennywall Well : Photographs
Blackpool Bridge : Blackpool Brook
Blackpool Bridge : Dean Road (the Roman Road)
Blackpool Bridge : Photographs
Blackpool Brook : Photographs
Blakeney : Dean Road (the Roman Road)
boar : sheep badgers
Boys Grave : Photographs
Bream : Celtic Iron Mines
Bream : Devil's Chapel
Bream : The Yankee Cinema
British Chiefs of Gloucestershire : key dates in Forest history - 577 A.D.
Brockweir Village : John Byng - Rides Round Britain
Bryant, Sir Arthur : Pepys in the Forest
Buckstone : Ley lines
Byng, John : Rides Round Britain
Caerleon : Pelleas and Ettarre by Alfred, Lord Tennyson
Camelot: The Holy Grail and the Forest of Dean
Cannop Ponds : Photographs
Canute : Earl Godwin
Carboniferous Limestone : The Yankee Cinema
carts : Observations of the River Wye by William Gilpin
Castiard, Vale of : Saint Anthony's Well
Castiard, Vale of : Flaxley Valley
Celtic Kingdoms : key dates in Forest history - 577 A.D.
Celts : The Forest of Dean becomes English
Celts : Christian Church of the Celts
Celts : St Dubricius
Chastan Syndicate : Gold in the Forest of Dean
Chepstow : Pepys in the Forest
Chepstow Castle : John Byng - Rides Round Britain
Christian : The Forest of Dean becomes English
Cinderford : Ammunition Supply Dumps (ASDs)
Cinderford : Who Killed the Bears?
Cinders : The Diary of Samuel Pepys
Leonard Clark : Who Killed the Bears?
Clearwell: Preface to 'De Wyrhale: A Tale of Dean Forest'
Clown : John Byng - Rides Round Britain
Clurewall: Preface to 'De Wyrhale: A Tale of Dean Forest'
Coal : Cannop seams
Coal : Eastern United Colliery
Coal Measure Sandstone : The Yankee Cinema
coals : Observations of the River Wye by William Gilpin
Cobbett, William : Rural Rides
Coldwell : Observations of the River Wye by William Gilpin
Coleford : Ley lines
Colliers : Who Killed the Bears?
Constable, Warden of
Courtfield Mound : Ley lines
Crease Limestone : The Yankee Cinema
Crown Lands : John Byng - Rides Round Britain
Danby Lodge : Forest Lodges and Walks
Dancing Bears : Who Killed the Bears?
Danes : Earl Godwin
A Tale of Dean Forest : P.J.Ducarel
Dean Road : Blackpool Brook
Dean Road : Roman Road
Deer : Giraldus Cambrenisis
deer : sheep badgers
delvings : The Yankee Cinema
Devil's Chapel : Celtic Iron Mines
Devil's Chapel : Bream
Devil's Chapel : F W Harvey
Devil’s Chapel : The Yankee Cinema
De Wyrhale: a A Tale of Dean Forest : P. J. Ducarel
Sir Francis Drake : Spanish Armada
Drake : Forest Lodges and Walks
Drayton, Michael: Poly-Olbion (excerpt)
Drew, Catherine : Poetess
Drybrook Sandstone : The Yankee Cinema
Dubricius : Christian Church of the Celts
P. J. Ducarel : De Wyrhale: A Tale of Dean Forest
Dyrham : key dates in Forest history - 577 A.D.
Edmund Ironsides : Earl Godwin
Edward the Elder, King : Anglo-Saxon Chronicles
Edward III : The Diary of Samuel Pepys
Edgehills Sand Quarry : Wilderness Forest Trail
Elder flower tea : Ellum Blo' Tea
Queen Elizabeth I : Spanish Armada
English : The Forest of Dean becomes English
Erging : Christian Church of the Celts
Ettare : Pelleas and Ettarre by Alfred, Lord Tennyson
Ethelred : Earl Godwin
Flaxley Abbey : Abbotswood
Flaxley Abbey : Photographs
Flaxley Valley : Vale of Castiard
Forest Talk : Dennis Potter
Freeminers : Bream
Freeminers : Cannop seams
Frenchmen : Who Killed the Bears?
Galahad: The Holy Grail and the Forest of Dean
Gatcombe : Spanish Armada
Gawain : Pelleas and Ettarre by Alfred, Lord Tennyson
Gerald of Wales : Forest of Dean
Giraldus Cambrenisis : Forest of Dean
GHOST! : Littledean Hall
Gilpin, William : Observations of the River Wye by William Gilpin
Gloucestershire : The Forest of Dean becomes English
GOLD! : Gold in the Forest of Dean
Goodrich : Giraldus Cambrensis
Goodrich Castle : Courtfield Grail King: The Holy Grail and the Forest of Dean Grammar School, Newland: The Tomb of Jenkin Wyrhale in Newland Churchyard
Greenfield : Courtfield
Guinevere: Mabinogion
Guinevere : Pelleas and Ettarre by Alfred, Lord Tennyson
Guns Mills : Dean Road (the Roman Road)
Guzman, Dean of Toledo : Spanish Armada
Haines, John : Poet
harpers : John Byng - Rides Round Britain
Hart, Cyril : Forest Lodges and Walks
Harvey, F. W. : Poet
Harvey, F. W. : Apologia for a merry rogue
Hatton, Eli : Last man to be hanged at Pingery Tump
Henry IV : The Tomb of Jenkin Wyrhale in Newland Churchyard
Henry VI : Saint Briavel's Castle
Henry VI : The Tomb of Jenkin Wyrhale in Newland Churchyard
Hentland : Christian Church of the Celts
Herbert Lodge : Forest Lodges and Walks
Hereford : The Forest of Dean becomes English
Hereford : Observations of the River Wye by William Gilpin
Highfield : Dean Road (the Roman Road)
hobby horse : John Byng - Rides Round Britain
The Holy Grail: The Holy Grail and the Forest of Dean
Holy Quest : Pelleas and Ettarre by Alfred, Lord Tennyson
Homeopathic: Horlicks
Horlicks: Horlicks
Horlick, James: Horlicks
Horlick, John: Horlicks
Horlick, William: Horlicks
horses : Observations of the River Wye by William Gilpin
Huntley : Mark Stones, Crosses and Ley lines
Huntley : William Cobbett's Rural Rides
Hwicci : The Forest of Dean becomes English
Hwicci : key dates in Forest history - 577 A.D.
Iron Mines : Celtic Iron Mines
Iron ore : Devil's Chapel
Iron ore : Giraldus Cambrensis
Iron Ore : Wilderness Forest Trail
iron ore : The Yankee Cinema
Ironworks : The Diary of Samuel Pepys
Jerusalem: The Holy Grail and the Forest of Dean
Joseph of Arithamea: The Holy Grail and the Forest of Dean
Sir John Joyce: Preface to 'De Wyrhale: A Tale of Dean Forest'
Joys Green : Old Jolter Sayings
King Arthur : Courtfield
King Arthur : Pelleas and Ettarre by Alfred, Lord Tennyson
King Henry V : Courtfield
King John : St. Briavels
King Palinor, Prince of South Wales : Courtfield
Knight of the Round Table : Courtfield
Knights of the Round Table : Pelleas and Ettarre by Alfred, Lord Tennyson
Knights Templar: The Holy Grail and the Forest of Dean
Lancelot : Pelleas and Ettarre by Alfred, Lord Tennyson
Language : Dennis Potter
Last Man Hanged : Eli Hatton
Latimer Lodge : Forest Lodges and Walks
Lea Bailey : The Diary of Samuel Pepys
Littledean Police Court : Who Killed the Bears?
Lining Wood : The Yankee Cinema
Littledean : Dean Road (the Roman Road)
Littledean Hall : The poltergeist
Little Lydney : St. Briavels
Logan Stones : Ley Lines
Long Stone : Ley Lines
Lydbrook : Observations of the River Wye by William Gilpin
Lydney : sheep badgers
Lydney : Spanish Armada
Lydney : Dean Road (the Roman Road)
Lydney : The Diary of Samuel Pepys
Lydney: The Holy Grail and the Forest of Dean
Lydney : Temple, Celtic God ; Nodens, Romans
Lower Dolomite : The Yankee Cinema
Mabinogion : The Mabinogi and the Four Books of Wales
Mabinogion : The Mabinogion
Mabinogion : King Arthur and Guinevere
Madrid : Spanish Armada
Magasetae : The Forest of Dean becomes English
Magic Mantle : Courtfield
Maid Marian : John Byng - Rides Round Britain
Malt Shovel Public House: Horlicks
John Man, Dean of Gloucester : Spanish Armada
Marstow Farm : Who Killed the Bears?
May Hill : May Day, May Pole, Ley Lines
May Hill : Yarleton
Mercia : The Forest of Dean becomes English
Merring Meend Pools : Wilderness Forest Trail
Mersiche Brook : from Blackpennywall Well to Cannop Ponds
Milo, Earl of Hereford : St. Briavels
Milo Fitz-Walter : Saint Briavel's Castle
miners : The Yankee Cinema
Mitcheldean : Dean Road (the Roman Road)
Mitcheldean : Pepys in the Forest
Monmouth : Christian Church of the Celts
Monnow : Christian Church of the Celts
Morris Dancers : John Byng - Rides Round Britain
Murder : Pingery Tump
Nailbridge : Who Killed the Bears?
Navy : Spanish Armada
Newland: Preface to 'De Wyrhale: A Tale of Dean Forest'
Newland: The Tomb of Jenkin Wyrhale in Newland Churchyard
Newland, All Saints: The Tomb of Jenkin Wyrhale in Newland Churchyard
Newland Almshouses: The Tomb of Jenkin Wyrhale in Newland Churchyard
Newland Grammar School: The Tomb of Jenkin Wyrhale in Newland Churchyard
Newnham : St. Briavels
Newnham : Flaxley Abbey
Newnham : Pepys in the Forest
New Weir : Observations of the River Wye by William Gilpin
New Weir : Observations of the River Wye by William Gilpin
Nodens : Temple, Lydney
Non-Conformist Minister: Horlicks
oak : Spanish Armada
Offa : The Forest of Dean becomes English
Old Red Sandstone : Gold in the Forest of Dean
outcrop : The Yankee Cinema
Pagan : Christian Church of the Celts
Parkend : Dean Road (the Roman Road)
Pelleas : Pelleas and Ettarre by Alfred, Lord Tennyson
Penda : The Forest of Dean becomes English
Pepys : The Diary of Samuel Pepys
Philip II of Spain : Spanish Armada
Pigs : St Dubricius, Celts
Pingery Tump : also known as Pingry Tump and Pingary Tump
The Pludds : Old Jolter sayings
Poltergeist : Littledean Hall
Poly-Olbion : Michael Drayton
Potter, Dennis : Berry Hill
Potter, Dennis : Language
Potter, Dennis : Who Killed the Bears?
Prince of South Wales : Courtfield
Purton : Spanish Armada
Pyrke, Charles : Littledean Hall
Queen Stone : Symond's Yat
Sir Walter Raleigh : Spanish Armada
Red Lion, Huntley ; William Cobbett's Rural Rides
Rocking Stones : Ley Lines
Rodley : sheep badgers
Roman Road : Dean Road
Romans : Celtic Iron Mines
Romans : Christian Church of the Celts
Romans : Temple, Lydney
Ropehouse Ditch : Sallowvallets Inclosure
Ross-on-Wye : Who Killed the Bears? Ruardean: Horlicks
Ruardean : Who Killed the Bears?
Rural Rides : William Cobbett
Saint Briavels : Christian Church of the Celts
Saint Briavels Castle : John Byng - Rides Round Britain
St. Briavelstowe : St. Briavels
Saint Dubricius : Christian Church of the Celts
Saint Dyfrig : Christian Church of the Celts
Sallowvallets Inclosure : Ropehouse Ditch
Saxon : key dates in Forest history - 577 A.D.
Saxon : Earl Godwin
Scowles : Celtic Iron Mines
Scowles : Devil's Chapel
scowles : The Yankee Cinema
Severn : sheep badgers
Severn : Spanish Armada
Severn : The Forest of Dean becomes English
Shakespeare : Spanish Armada
sheep badgers : sheep badgers
Sir Cradoc, Knight of the Round Table : Courtfield
soldiers : The Yankee Cinema
Soudley : Dean Road (the Roman Road)
Spain : Spanish Armada
Spanish Armada : Spanish Armada
Speech House : Forest Lodges and Walks
Speech House : Ley lines
Speech House : The Spruce Drive
Spruce Drive : Blackpool Brook
Spruce Drive: Mustard Gas
Spruce Drive : Photographs
Staunton : Buckstone
Staunton: Preface to 'De Wyrhale: A Tale of Dean Forest'
Stowe : St. Briavels
Symond's Yat : Ley lines
Symond's Yat : Offa's Dyke
Symond's Yat : Queen Stone
Temple, Lydney : Incubation Chambers
Temple : Lydney, Dean Road (the Roman Road)
thane : Earl Godwin
Timber : The diary of Samuel Pepys
Tintern Abbey : William Wordsworth
Tramroads : Wilderness Forest Trail
Tudors : Spanish Armada
Ulf : Earl Godwin
Ulfnoth : Earl Godwin
Vale of Castiard: Flaxley Valley
Vaughan : Courtfield
Vikings : Anglo-Saxon Chronicles
Viney Hill : Spanish Armada
Viney Hill : Dean Road (the Roman Road)
Wales : The Forest of Dean becomes English
Warden of
Welsh Bicknor : Observations of the River Wye by William Gilpin
wharf : Observations of the River Wye by William Gilpin
Whitchurch : Observations of the River Wye by William Gilpin
White Cross House : Spanish Armada
White Stag : Legend of the White Stag
White Stag : Mabinogion
Whitsuntide : John Byng - Rides Round Britain
Wigpool : Wilderness Forest Trail
Wigpool Common : The Yankee Cinema
Wigpool Mine : Gold in the Forest of Dean
Wigpool Iron Mine : The Yankee Cinema
Wilderness : Forest Trail
William the Conqueror : sheep badgers
Wilton Castle : Giraldus Cambrensis
Winter, Sir John : The Diary of Samuel Pepys
Sir William Winter : Spanish Armada
witenagemot : Earl Godwin
Worcester : The Forest of Dean becomes English
Worcester Lodge : Forest Lodges and Walks
Wordsworth : Courtfield
Wordsworth : Tintern Abbey
Wye : The Forest of Dean becomes English
Wye : Giraldus Cambrensis
Wye : Observations of the River Wye by William Gilpin
Jenkin Wyral: Preface to 'De Wyrhale: A Tale of Dean Forest'
Jenkin Wyrhale: The Tomb of Jenkin Wyrhale in Newland Churchyard
De Wyrhale: a A Tale of Dean Forest
John Wyrhale: Preface to 'De Wyrhale: A Tale of Dean Forest'
Matthew Wyrhale: Preface to 'De Wyrhale: A Tale of Dean Forest'
Yarleton: May Hill
York Lodge : Forest Lodges and Walks
Yorkley : Dean Road (the Roman Road)
Zurree! : Forest Talk