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 Laws by Catherine Drew
Afforestwr itti – I am thy forester (Mabinogion)
Apologia for a Merry Rogue by F. W. Harvey
Battle Hymn of the Dean by Lily Dunn
The Story of the Blue Mound at Lydbrook
Book of Dennis – Forest of Dean Laws
John Byng on the Forest of Dean
Celtic Iron Mines in the Forest of Dean
Cholera and Typhoid in the Forest of Dean
Christianity in the Forest of Dean
In Devil’s Chapel . . . by F W Harvey
Forest Dialect by Dennis Potter
Giraldus Cambrensis (Gerald of Wales)
I am thy forester – Afforestwr itti (Mabinogion)
Ley Lines in the Forest of Dean
Lines Written At The King’s Arms, Ross by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Mining in the Forest of Dean by W. H. Potts
Mitcheldean Meend Enclosure Stone
Poly-Olbion by Michael Drayton
Tintern Abbey by William Wordsworth
We are Seven by William Wordsworth
Who Killed the Bears? by Harry Beddington
Wyrhale – De Wyrhale: A Tale of Dean Forest
Wyrhale – The Tomb of Jenkin Wyrhale at Newland
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
Lydbrook: D.H. Lawrence at Lydbrook
Mitcheldean Meend Enclosure Stone
Newland – The Tomb of Jenkin Wyrhale at Newland
BROOKS