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Past
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Bridstow Church,
June - October 2006 |
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A display
of the work of the Landscape Origins project at Bridstow
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Gillow Farm
excavation
This project ended on Monday 25th
September. We began digging on 10th
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This
was a very interesting project and we are extremely
grateful to the farmer, Philip Watkins, for access to the
site. Click image for information about the site. |
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Caplor Farm,
Fownhope, Tuesday 15th August
Finds Processing |
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Brampton Abbotts,
Sunday 13th August
A Four & half Mile
Walk from Brampton Abbotts to Hole-in-the-Wall
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Heather
Hurley and PJ Pikes led a walk from Brampton Abbotts
Village Hall to Court Farm at Hole-in-the-Wall
(courtesy PGL) |
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Hereford, St Peter's
Hall, Saturday 12th August
Three Choirs
Festival - Fringe Festival
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Display of the work of the Landscape Origins project as
part of the Three Choirs Fringe Festival |
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Caradoc, Sellack,
Sunday 6th August
The Herefordshire
Country Fair at Castle Meadow, Caradoc, Sellack,
Ross-on-Wye
The
Landscape Origins project displayed recent work at this
event
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Caplor Farm,
Fownhope, Tuesday 1st August
Finds Processing |
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Upper Orchard,
Hoarwithy, Monday 31st July
Latin translation |
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Upper Orchard,
Hoarwithy, Wednesday 26th July
English transcription
The English transcribers worked on an extremely long
document from the Lechmere Papers at Worcester Record
Office. It was a lawsuit paper relating to Fownhope
manor dated 1708. Between the lines of legal jargon were
some interesting place-names including the Doctor's
House with an Orchard, the Withend and
Trilloes land.
The second document was a conveyance from Roger Lechmere
to Richard Lechmere concerning the manor of Fownhope in
1567. The writing was difficult to decipher but some
phrases such as Summer pasture for Six beasts yearly
in the Wodd called Fownhope Park with two beasts pasture
in the late grass of the meadow called Custiners
yearly...........with sufficient hedgebote.......to
repair the hedge, and herbage of the court
orchard with a half part of a sheep house there,
made the document of interest.
Hedgebote
we discovered is an Old English term for the right to
take wood from the commons to repair or make fences
(Local Historian's Encyclopedia).
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Fownhope, Tuesday
25th July
Landscape Origins of the Wye Valley Project & Fownhope
Local History Society
A Walk around Fownhope and Common Hill
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A summer evening walk led by Rev. David
Clarke of the Fownhope Local History Group |
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Hoarwithy, Wednesday
19th July |
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A 4˝
mile walk from Hoarwithy Bridge examining the river
crossings, for the
Wye Valley Area
of Outstanding Natural Beauty programme.
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Caplor Farm,
Fownhope, 18th July, 2.00pm
Finds Processing
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Upper Orchard,
Hoarwithy, Monday 17th July, 7.30 pm
Latin translation
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In the air, Friday
14th July |
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Upper Orchard,
Hoarwithy, Wednesday 5th July
English transcription of documents relating to
Foy parish. |
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The Registers of Foy
HRO BH88/1
Researched by Cherry Newton for LOWV
On Sun Nov ye 18th 1770 was
ye greatest flood upon ye River Wye yt has been known in
ye memory of Man, ye Water came into ye Poor People’s
houses at ye Hole in ye Wall near knee deep, & they were
carried out in Boats.
Memorandm. That on ye 10th
Day of Oct 1771 Thomas Williams of ye Slad Workman to Mr
Loyd came & asked me for ye Key of ye little Gate in ye
Orchard adjoyning to the Church Yard & facing Carthage
House, to carry ye Corpse of Ann Hargest (late a servant
at Carthage) to her Burial, there being no Road or Way
thro’ ye sd Orchard, but upon sufferance. Witness my Hand
ye Day & Year above written
Jos. Powell Vicr.
Memorandm That on ye 25th
Day of March 1772 I lent unto Mrs Loyd ye Key of ye
Orchard Gate facing Carthage House to enable her & family
to come with more ease & expedition to Church. As Mr Loyd
had been so obliging as to let me have ye Key & Use of his
Horse Boat for myself & friends whenever I had Occasion,
there being no Road on either part, but on sufferance for
horses, to ye boat or thro’ ye orchard
Jos. Powell Vicr.
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On Fri Jan 11th 1777 I Jos
Powell vicar, Percival Lloyd of Carthage Esq, Mr Jos Brown
of Ingestone, Mr Thos Evans of Foy, and James Tayler of
Underhill were summoned by warrant under the hand and seal
of Mr Will Cope Gregory one of his Majesty’s Justices of
the Peace for ye county to appear at the house of Boulter
^ Inholder in the par of Wool – Hope at which place we did
all appear (except James Tayler who was lame and infirm
and not able to attend) according to our summons, to
answer to our Charge exhibited against us, for neglect of
duty in the Highways in the Township of Eaton Tregoes by
Richard Patrick surveyor of that Division. To which
summons we pleaded not guilty, as being out of his
Division and lying in the Hundred of Wormelow and in the
Township of Sellack and Foy. And having made it clearly
appear before before Will Cope Gregory and Will Nourse Esq,
two of his Majities Justices {sic} of the Peace for our
county that the Inhabitants of the Township of Foy had
never done any Highway Duty in the Township of Eaton
Trgoes, the which Plea was acknowledged to be true by
Richard Patrick the surveyor and by Mr Prosser another
Inhabitant of the sd Division of Eaton Tregoes, that they
never knew, or ever heard that the Inhabitants of the
Division of Sellack and Foy had ever done any Duty of that
kind in the Township of Eaton Tregoes ^ or they of Eaton
Tregoes in our Division of Sellack and Foy. Then the said
Justices agreed that we were a separate Division and not
liable to the summons of the surveyor of the Township of
Eaton Tregoes to do any Duty there, but withal advised us
to chuse a separate surveyor which w’d forever put an end
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Here the vicar of Foy and several
of his parishioners are summoned before magistrates to
answer as to why they are neglecting their duty to repair
the roads in the area known as
Eton Tregoz.
Foy is divided into two parts by
the river Wye and as late as the 17th century Eton Tregoz
(the spelling constantly changes)
on the left bank was in the hundred of Greytree while the
rest of the parish, on the right bank, was in the hundred
of Wormelow.
Woolhope is in Greytree hundred, and here the inference is
that Eton Tregoz is no longer considered to be in
Greytree hundred although apparently the surveyor of the
Greytree Hundred division, Richard Patrick, believes that
it is. The township of Eton Tregoz lies 'in the hundred
of Wormelow and in the township of Sellack and Foy'.
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old distinction between Eton Tregoz and Foy is still
maintained however. It is the 'township' of Eton Tregoz,
while Foy and Sellack form a single township. The
inhabitants of these two townships owe no road maintaining
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Caplor Farm,
Fownhope, Tuesday 4th July
Finds Processing
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Upper Orchard,
Hoarwithy, Monday 26th June
Transliteration and translation of Latin documents
relating to the project area.
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Brinkley Hill
Picnic Site, Saturday 24th June
Capler Camp and Environs
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As part of the
Herefordshire
Walking Festival 51) - a circular walk from the
banks of the River Wye to Mancell's Ferry, Rise Farm and
Caplor Farm and over Capler Camp looking at the
landscape of the Wye Valley. |
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Overdine, Woolhope,
Friday June 23rd
Trackways, Artists
and Archaeologists
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This
circular walk started at Overdine Farm near Fownhope and
had archaeological interpretation along
the way. Part of the
Herefordshire
Walking Festival - walk number 46. |
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Hoarwithy, Wednesday
21st June
Pubs of Hoarwithy,
present and past -
A Ross Civic Society
Walk for the Walking Festival
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A 3
mile walk around the present and past pubs of Hoarwithy
led by Heather Hurley (part of
Herefordshire
Walking Festival - walk number 31) |
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Caplor Farm,
Fownhope, Tuesday 20th June
Finds Processing |
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Brockhampton,
Thursday, 15th June
The River Wye
Preservation Trust
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A walk visiting the site of Carey
mill at Carey Islands and the old Ballingham railway
bridge.
by kind permission of Mr and Mrs
Jeremy Clay and Mr and Mrs John Williams
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Llanfrother,
Hentland, Friday 9th, Saturday 10th and Sunday 11th June
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Fieldwalking in the area of the 6th century monastery of
St Dyfrig |
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Upper Orchard,
Hoarwithy, Wednesday 7th June
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Transcription of English documents relating to
Ballingham. Before the dissolution of the monasteries
Ballingham had been a manor of the Benedictine Priory of
St Guthlac in Hereford. |
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Caplor
Farm, Fownhope, Tuesday 6th June
Finds Processing
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LOWV earlier events |
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Spring 2006 |
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Autumn-Winter 2005/6 |
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Summer 2005 |
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Current and coming events |
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