Forest of Dean Miscellany

WORK IN PROGRESS
These items were previously published on my web-site: “Edward Hunt’s Forest of Dean Miscellany”.

Please see index below.

The Forest of Dean is a place of natural beauty and poetry as well as mystery and magic. It is the home of beasts and fairies, men and elves. These elements constitute the warp and weft of Forest history. Nature and Supernature combine to create this multi-dimensional environment equalling in its diversity the environs of Old London Town.

This site contains a personal selection of writing about the Forest of Dean. The selection embraces fact, fiction and fantasy; nature and supernature.

My aim is to focus on the interesting and the unusual.

Here you will find:  Samuel Pepys, Dennis Potter, Catherine Drew, Michael Drayton, F. W. Harvey, Arthur Bryant, Cyril Hart, John Byng, William Gilpin, D.H. Lawrence, William Cobbett, Nikolai Tolstoy, Alfred, Lord Tennyson . . .

. . . King Arthur, Merlin, Guinevere, Gawain . . .

. . . the Anglo-Saxon Chronicles, the Mabinogion . . .


Index of Forest of Dean Miscellany pages

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Forest of Dean by Edward Hunt

Forest of Dean in Verse

Forest of Dean Enclosures

Forest of Dean Laws by Catherine Drew

Abbots Wood

Afforestwr itti – I am thy forester (Mabinogion)

St. Anthony’s Well

Apologia for a Merry Rogue by F. W. Harvey

Archenfield – 918 A.D.

Arthur and Guinevere

Battle Hymn of the Dean by Lily Dunn

Beaker Folk

Berry Hill by Dennis Potter

Blackpennywall Well

Blackpool Brook

The Story of the Blue Mound at Lydbrook

Book of Dennis – Forest of Dean Laws

Boy’s Grave

Breviary of Britain (1573)

St Briavels

St. Briavels Castle

Mystery Bridge

John Byng on the Forest of Dean

Caractacus

Celtic Iron Mines in the Forest of Dean

Cholera and Typhoid in the Forest of Dean

Christ is a Weeping

Christianity in the Forest of Dean

Cobbett in the Forest of Dean

Courtfield

Dean Road

Devil’s Chapel

In Devil’s Chapel . . . by F W Harvey

Forest Dialect by Dennis Potter

Domesday Book

Catherine Drew

St. Dubricius

Earl Godwin

Eastern United Colliery

Edern ap Nudd

Ellum Blo’ Tea

Feryllwg – Ferleg – Ferreg

Flaxley Abbey

Free Miners

George Ridler’s Oven

Ghost of Littledean Hall

Giraldus Cambrensis (Gerald of Wales)

Gold Mining in Dean

Goodrich Castle

Gwent Coch yn y Dena

Hollow Ways

Holy Grail

Hopewell Colliery (1815)

Horlicks

Hundred of Saint Briavels

I am thy forester – Afforestwr itti (Mabinogion)

Jolter!

D.H. Lawrence at Lydbrook

Ley Lines in the Forest of Dean

Lines Written At The King’s Arms, Ross by Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Lodges and Walks

Mabinogion

Members of Parliament

Mersiche Brook

Mining in the Forest of Dean by W. H. Potts

Mitcheldean Meend Enclosure Stone

Mitcheldean Meend – pt. I

Mitcheldean Meend – pt. II

Mustard Gas

New Weir by William Gilpin

Offa’s Dyke

Pelleas And Ettarre

Pepys’ Diary

Pingery Tump

Poly-Olbion by Michael Drayton

Queen Stone

Red Gwent in the Dean

Ropehouse Ditch

Sheep Badgers

Spanish Armada

Spruce Drive

Temple at Lydney

Tintern Abbey by William Wordsworth

Vale of Castiard

We are Seven by William Wordsworth

White Stag

Who Killed the Bear?

Who Killed the Bears? by Harry Beddington

Wisdom of Ol’ Jolter!

Wyrhale – De Wyrhale: A Tale of Dean Forest

Wyrhale – The Tomb of Jenkin Wyrhale at Newland

Yankee Cinema

Yarleton

Zurree! (Forest Talk)

POEMS BY FOREST POETS

      Lines by a Vorester by Edward Barry

      Who Killed the Bears ? by Harry Beddington

      The Goole Captain by Leonard Clark

      The Forest of Dean Laws by Catherine Drew

      Battle Hymn of the Dean by Lily Dunn

      Apologia for a Merry Rogue by F. W. Harvey

      In Devil’s Chapel by F W Harvey

PLACES

      Abbots Wood

      Archenfield

      Berry Hill by Dennis Potter

      Blackpool Brook 

      Blackpennywall Well    

      Boy’s Grave

      Courtfield

      Danby Lodge

      Dean Road

      Eastern United Colliery

      Flaxley Abbey

      Goodrich Castle

      Littledean Hall Ghost

      Lydbrook Recreation Ground

      Lydbrook: D.H. Lawrence at Lydbrook

      Mitcheldean Meend Enclosure Stone

      Mitcheldean Meend – pt. I

      Mitcheldean Meend – pt. II

      New Weir

      Newland – The Tomb of Jenkin Wyrhale at Newland

      Pingery Tump

      St. Anthony’s Well

      St. Briavels

      St. Briavels Castle

      St. Briavels, Hundred of

      Yarleton

BROOKS

      Blackpool Brook

      Mersiche Brook

      Ropehouse Ditch