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The Chronicle of Geoffrey le Baker of Swinbroke. Baker was a secular clerk from Swinbroke, now Swinbrook, an Oxfordshire village two miles east of Burford. His Chronicle describes the events of the period 1303-1356: Gaveston, Bannockburn, Boroughbridge, the murder of King Edward II, the Scottish Wars, Sluys, Crécy, the Black Death, Winchelsea and Poitiers. To quote Herbert Bruce 'it possesses a vigorous and characteristic style, and its value for particular events between 1303 and 1356 has been recognised by its editor and by subsequent writers'. The book provides remarkable detail about the events it describes. Baker's text has been augmented with hundreds of notes, including extracts from other contemporary chronicles, such as the Annales Londonienses, Annales Paulini, Murimuth, Lanercost, Avesbury, Guisborough and Froissart to enrich the reader's understanding. The translation takes as its source the 'Chronicon Galfridi le Baker de Swynebroke' published in 1889, edited by Edward Maunde Thompson. Available at Amazon in eBook and Paperback.
River Severn
River Stour Worcestershire
River Teme
River Vyrnwy
Warwickshire River Avon
River Clun
River Corve
River Onny
River Banwy aka Einion
River Leam
River Sowe
River Stour Warwickshire
River Severn is in Severn Estuary.
The River Severn rises on Plynlimon [Map] after which it passes Llanidloes [Map], Caersws [Map], Welshpool [Map], Crew Green [Map], Shrawardine, Shropshire [Map], Shrewsbury, Shropshire [Map], Wroxeter, Shropshire [Map], Coalport, Shropshire [Map], Bridgnorth, Shropshire [Map], Bewdley, Worcestershire [Map], Stourport-on-Severn, Worcestershire [Map] to Worcester, Worcestershire [Map]
From Worcester the rivers flows through Upton-upon-Severn, Worcestershire [Map] to Tewkesbury, Gloucestershire [Map] where it is joined by the Warwickshire River Avon, Gloucester [Map] becoming the Severn Estuary around Thornwell, Monmouthshire [Map].
1101. Bridgnorth Bridge [Map] was commissioned around 1101 by Robert de Belleme (age 45), when the town of Bridgnorth was established in Shropshire. The fortified bridge had a gatehouse and a chapel, and was a key crossing over the River Severn. It was rebuilt in 1823, and only fragments of masonry now survive.
Gildas. 3. The island of Britain, situated on almost the utmost border of the earth, towards the south and west, and poised in the Divine balance, as is said, which supports the whole world, stretches out from the southwest towards the North Pole, and is eight hundred miles long and two hundred broad, except where the headlands of sundry promontories stretch farther into the sea. It is surrounded by the ocean, which forms winding bays, and is strongly defended by this ample and, if I may so call it, impassable barrier, save on the south side, where the narrow sea affords a passage to Belgic Gaul. It is enriched by the mouths of two noble rivers, the Thames and the Severn, as it were two arms, by which foreign luxuries were of old imported, and by other streams of less importance. It is famous for eightand-twenty cities, and is embellished by certain castles, with walls, towers, well-barred gates, and houses with threatening battlements built on high, and provided with all requisite instruments of defence. Its plains are spacious, its hills are pleasantly situated, adapted for superior tillage, and its mountains are admirably calculated for the alternate pasturage of cattle, where flowers of various colours, trodden by the feet of man, give it the appearance of a lovely picture. It is decked, like a man's chosen bride, with divers jewels, with lucid fountains, and abundant brooks wandering over the snowwhite sands; with transparent rivers, flowing in gentle murmurs, and offering a pledge of sweet slumber to those who recline upon their banks, whilst it is irrigated by abundant lakes, which pour forth cool torrents of refreshing water.
Culture, Rivers and River Systems in England and Wales, Severn Estuary, River Severn, River Stour Worcestershire
The River Stour Worcestershire rises in the Clent Hills, Worcestershire [Map] and near Romsley, Worcestershire [Map] after which it passes Halesowen, Shropshire [Map], Cradley, Worcestershire [Map], Stourbridge, Worcestershire [Map], Stourton, Worcestershire [Map], Cookley, Worcestershire [Map], Wolverley, Worcestershire [Map] and Kidderminster, Worcestershire [Map] before joining the River Severn at Stourport-on-Severn, Worcestershire [Map].
Culture, Rivers and River Systems in England and Wales, Severn Estuary, River Severn, River Vyrnwy
The River Vyrnwy rises on the hills around Lake Vyrnwy [Map] from where it flows past Meifod, Montgomeryshire [Map], Llansantffraid-ym-Mechain [Map] after which it crosses from Wales into England, and flows to Melverley, Shropshire [Map] and Crew Green Bridge, Shropshire [Map] where it joins the River Severn.
Culture, Rivers and River Systems in England and Wales, Severn Estuary, River Severn, River Vyrnwy, River Banwy aka Einion
The River Banwy aka Einion rises in the hills to the west of Llangadfan, Montgomeryshire [Map] through after which it flows through Llanfair Caereinion, Montgomeryshire [Map] before joining the River Vyrnwy.