The Cambrian Directory [1800]; Or, Cursory Sketches of the Welsh Territories.: With a Chart, Comprehending at One View, the Advisable Route, Best Inns, Distances, and Objects Most Worthy of Attention.Anonymous
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The Cambrian Directory [1800]; Or, Cursory Sketches of the Welsh Territories.: With a Chart, Comprehending at One View, the Advisable Route, Best Inns, Distances, and Objects Most Worthy of Attention.
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Wales -- Guidebooks
hall—Walk to
Monmouth
Folly—Wye
Chepstow — 50 Beaufort Arms Castle—Church— 9—195
Piercefield,
one mile from
Chepstow—
Llancomb
Cliff—Wye—
Wooden bridge
(Between M. and
C.
Llandogo—
Tintern
Abbey—Wine
Cliff,
corruption from
Wye Cliff)
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FOOTNOTES.
{x} The Rev. WILLIAM COXE, rector of Bemerton, and domestic chaplain to
the Lord Bishop of Salisbury.
{8} Atkins’s Gloucestershire.
{9} Grose’s Antiquities.
{11} Warner’s First Walk through Wales.
{12} He was buried in the Cathedral Church of St. David, and many
hundred years after canonized by Pope Calistus the Second.—_Godwin’s
English Bishops_, p. 414.
{18a} Willis’s Landaff, p. 34.
{18b} Grose, Willis.
{23} _I.e._ lime-stone.
{27} Vol. ii. p, 92.
{30} Pennarth, eight miles South-west of Swansea.
{32} William of Malmsbury, p. 158.
{39} The Pedestrian will not possibly find time to examine the Ruins of
Carew Castle, in this day’s route, but will find it more convenient to
visit it in his way from Tenby to Haverfordwest.
{41} The price for two oars, seven shillings and six-pence; and twelve
shillings and six-pence for four oars.
{42a} Wyndham, p. 72.
{42b} Philosophical Survey of Ireland.
{47} “The Castle (says an eminent Author) is said to have been built by
Gilbert Earl of Clare, who lived in the reign of King Stephen; and Camden
reports, that Richard Earl of Clare made Richard Fitz-Tankred Governor
thereof. It was one of those in the hands of the Flemings, when they
first came into Dyvet, or Pembrokeshire.”
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