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These other entries in our collection of descriptive gazetteers are also about Forest of Dean. You may be able to find further references to Forest of Dean in the descriptive gazetteers by doing a full-text search here.
Place | Type of entry | Source | Dean, Forest of | ancient forest | Bartholomew | Forest of Dean Division | parliamentary division | Bartholomew |
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This website includes the complete texts of books describing journeys around Britain, written between the twelfth and nineteenth centuries. Selecting one of the links below will take you to the first reference to Forest of Dean within the selected text. This will not always be a description of a visit: travellers often mention places other than where they are, for example as a basis for comparison.
Traveller | Section | No. of Refs. | William Camden | Gloucestershire and Oxfordshire | 2 | William Gilpin | London to Ross | 2 | Gerald of Wales | Book I, Ch. 5: Usk and Caerleon | 1 | William Gilpin | To the source of the Wye | 1 |
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This website includes two large libraries, of historical travel writing and of entries from nineteenth century gazetteers describing places. We have text from these sources available for these places near your location:
Place | Mentioned in Travel Writing | Mentioned in Hist. Gazetteer |
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Cinderford | 0 | 2 |
Woodside | 0 | 1 |
Littledean | 0 | 4 |
East Dean | 0 | 2 |
Flaxley | 0 | 2 |
Abenhall | 0 | 2 |
Drybrook | 0 | 2 |
Ruspidge | 0 | 1 |
Mitcheldean | 1 | 2 |
Blaisdon | 0 | 2 |
Newnham | 2 | 2 |
Ruardean | 1 | 2 |
Longhope | 0 | 2 |
Lea Bailey | 0 | 2 |
Hope Mansell | 0 | 2 |
Hinders Lane | 0 | 1 |
Lydbrook | 1 | 3 |
Arlingham | 0 | 2 |
Lea | 0 | 3 |
Westbury on Severn | 1 | 4 |