Archaeology
Origin of the name "Dean"?--The "Buck Stone," and other Druidical remains--"The Scowles," &c., and other ancient iron-mines, worked in the time of the Romans--Symmond's Yat, and other military earthworks--Domesday Book, and investment of this Forest in the Crown--William I., a...
Origin of the name "Dean"?--The "Buck Stone," and other Druidical remains--"The Scowles," &c., and other ancient iron-mines, worked in the time of the Romans--Symmond's Yat, and...
2. Chapter 2Grants in the Forest to Earl of Pembroke--Mining restricted to the Foresters--Iron cinders of old workings re-smelted in the new furnaces--Last justice seat held in 1635, extend...
3. Chapter 3First "Order" of forty-eight free miners in Court--8,487 acres enclosed and planted--Speech-house begun--Second order of the Miners' Court--The King's iron-works suppressed--The...
4. Chapter 4Condition of the Forest described, and management examined--Depredations--Ninth and tenth orders of the Miners' Court--Timber injured by the colliers--The Forest in its best sta...
5. Chapter 5Mr. John Pitt suggested 2,000 acres to be planted--The Forest surveyed--Great devastations and encroachments--The roads--Act of 1786, appointing a Commission of Inquiry--New pla...
6. Chapter 6Lord Nelson's remarks on the Forest--Free miners endeavour to restore their Court of Mine Law--White Mead Park planted--Act of 1808, authorising the replanting of the Forest; si...
7. Chapter 7Riots--Sessions of the Dean Forest Commissioners relative to St. Briavel's Court--Free miners' claims--Foreigners' petition--State of the woods--Perambulation--Rights of Commona...
8. Chapter 8By this time (1842) some of the enclosures made in 1814 were become fit for being thrown open, the young trees having grown up sufficiently, and the following Commissioners, viz...
9. Chapter 9varying from 1 to 250 pounds, as at the Bilson Colliery, besides 315 grants of stone-quarries at a total rent of 87 pounds 9s. 7d. This includes the following coal-works lately...
10. Chapter 10The inhabitants of the Forest--Its Aborigines--Celtic indications in the names of persons and places--The forty-eight free miners' names appended to their book of "Dennis," cont...
11. Chapter 11Churches and schools--Religious provisions before the Reformation--Rev. P. M. Procter, Vicar of Newland, lectures in Thomas Morgan's cottage--The erection of a place for worship...
12. Chapter 12The history of the Abbey of Flaxley, or St. Mary de Dene--Its foundation by Roger Earl of Hereford in 1140--Confirmed and enriched by Henry II. and III., and Richard II.--Suppre...
13. Chapter 13The Forest roads and railways--Vestiges of some very ancient roads, apparently Roman--The old "crooked, winding, and cross ways," when no wheeled vehicles were allowed in the Fo...
14. Chapter 14The deer of the Forest, and its timber, plants, birds, ferns, and early allusions to the Forest deer--The Court of Swainmote, by which they were preserved--Act of 1668 regarding...
15. Chapter 15_The Iron Mines and Iron Works in the Forest_--Mr. Wyrrall's description of the ancient excavations for iron--Their remote antiquity proved, and character described--Historical...
16. Chapter 16_The Forest Coal Works_--The earliest allusion to them--The original method of mining for coal--Grants to the Earl of Pembroke in 1610, &c.--First attempt to char coal for the f...
17. Chapter 17_The Geology of the Forest, and its Minerals_--Their character in general--Description of the beds of conglomerate, mountain limestone, iron veins, millstone grit, and lower coa...