Edward Hunt's Forest of Dean Miscellany

The following excerpts are taken from ‘Gerald of Wales: The Journey Through Wales / The Description of Wales’ translated by Lewis Thorpe (publisher: Penguin Classics 1978).

The journey describes the mission to Wales by Baldwin, Archbishop of Canterbury in 1188. He was accompanied by Giraldus.

The Forest of Dean

The River Wye rises in these same Plinlimmon mountains. It flows by the castles of Hay and Clifford, through the city of Hereford, by Wilton Castle and Goodrich, through the Forest of Dean, which is full of deer and where iron-ore is mined, and so comes to Striguil Castle, below which it enters the sea. It forms the modern boundary between England and Wales.

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The above text is from ‘Gerald of Wales: The Journey Through Wales / The Description of Wales’ translated by Lewis Thorpe (publisher: Penguin Classics 1978).

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Key words:       Clifford  Castle, Gerald of Wales, Giraldus Cambrensis, Goodrich, Hay Castle, Hereford, Plinlimmon, River Wye, Striguil Castle, Wilton Castle

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