The Severn valley: a series of sketches, descriptive and pictorial, of the course of the Severn: containing notices of its topographical, industrial, and geological features; with glances at its historical and legendary associations (1862)
Randall, John, 1810-1910 · London, J. S. Virtue · leaf 276
CHAPTER XXII. Chepstow High Tides — Chepstow Salmon — Chepstow Castle — Piercefield and Wyndcliffe — Village of Matherne — Caerwent — Roman Remains — Port- skewet — Ravages of the Severn — Former Aspects of the Severn — Caldecot Castle — New Passage — Anecdote of Charles I, — The English Stones —… … circumstance due to the rocks at Aust Head and Beachley — " Where twice a day the Severn fills, The salt sea water rushes by And hushes half the bubbling Wye, Aud makes a silence on the hills."
Severn River Valley (Wales and England) -- Description and travel
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