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Post by Deleted on Oct 5, 2021 14:31:52 GMT
Secrets of Great British Castles, Netflix. Now you're talking. If you are being serious then you may enjoy this video (if you haven't already). youtu.be/A_zte0l-WFc
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Post by Peroni on Oct 5, 2021 15:33:48 GMT
I'm going to bookmark that, and look it up, during the next home game. Shame it's not longer.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 5, 2021 17:39:00 GMT
If you want a really fascinating insight into Castles and medieval Britain I would look up the 1991 documentary Robin Hood Prince of Thieves.
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Post by mikeunderpenyard on Oct 5, 2021 18:13:54 GMT
The 3 castle's *walk will give you some of the finest marches castles in the land, whitecastle, very impressive.
Goodrich never fails to impress.
*if only there was someone on here to guide you through it.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 5, 2021 18:31:25 GMT
The 3 castle's *walk will give you some of the finest marches castles in the land, whitecastle, very impressive. Goodrich never fails to impress. *if only there was someone on here to guide you through it. Yet the tiny Chapel at Kilpeck gives me goosebumps.
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Post by mikeunderpenyard on Oct 5, 2021 18:36:42 GMT
The 3 castle's *walk will give you some of the finest marches castles in the land, whitecastle, very impressive. Goodrich never fails to impress. *if only there was someone on here to guide you through it. Yet the tiny Chapel at Kilpeck gives me goosebumps. That area is full of wonderful mystery. I love it.
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Post by GRL on Oct 5, 2021 19:09:10 GMT
The 3 castle's *walk will give you some of the finest marches castles in the land, whitecastle, very impressive. Goodrich never fails to impress. *if only there was someone on here to guide you through it. ![](//storage.proboards.com/6317644/thumbnailer/qYDMhijHGmTLwwJYSkrA.png)
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Post by GRL on Oct 5, 2021 19:11:38 GMT
Exceptional writing by anybody's standards. (No wonder they're still talking about him in the Lichfield Vaults - and everywhere fecking else....)
Grosmont – A Turning Point.
RHYS Gethin, “the Swarthy”, was not known for his acts of benevolence. At a time when the war for Welsh independence was gathering momentum, the warlord from Builth Wells was Owain Glyndwr's most fearsome lieutenant. An outlaw who had survived by rustling sheep since his childhood, Gethin, also known as “the Fierce” conducted guerilla operations mostly in South-east Wales. At Pilleth in 1402, he masterminded the telling defeat of a bigger army under Edmund Mortimer from his commanding position on Green Hill. The Wellingtonia trees there now mark an uneasy resting-place; it was Gethin who encouraged the Welsh camp followers to commit acts of unspeakable mutilation on bodies of the English slain in battle. When some of the warfare shifted south to Gwent, the inhabitants of English Grosmont had every reason to be fearful. In 1404 the Welsh suffered a setback two miles to the west in a pitched battle at Campstone Hill. It was said that the newly crowned Prince Owain Glyndwr himself was present and nearly captured. The Welsh standard was taken but Glyndwr escaped. In March 1405 a great rabble army had been raised from among the Welsh peasantry of Glamorgan and Gwent. After plundering Cardiff, Newport, Caerleon and Usk, the marauding menacing mass assembled at Kentchurch facing the time-honoured royal Lancastrian border town of Grosmont. A mile up the slope and across the Monnow a small but disciplined English garrison was occupying Grosmont Castle. The man at the head of the Welsh contingent was Rhys Gethin. On Wednesday 11th, the Welsh attacked and many of the English either fled into the woods or took sanc-tuary in the Cathedralesque church. But what happened next represents a seminal moment in Owain Glyndwr's quest for Welsh independence. While the superior Welsh force was engaged in the usual habit of burning and looting, Prince Hal (later Henry V) sent out from Hereford a small body of royal forces under his cousin Lord Gilbert Talbot. Writing to his father, the prince was able to exult in a resounding victory: “Lord Talbot and a small detachment of my household were joined by your faithful and valiant knights William Newport and John Greyndor, who together were but a small force. Your people won the field and vanquished all of the rebels”. There is no doubt that the Welsh, in the insolence of the aftermath of battle, incurred heavy casualties. Henry claimed that 800 of the 8,000 were killed, and the rest fled in total disarray. The walk this month starts from moated Grosmont Castle, which occupies a site with little fanfare. It is a quiet, unheralded place. The settlement is in typically undulating border territory. We climb, quite ener-getically, on to Graig Hill above Grosmont where the final rout of the Welsh is said to have taken place on that March day in 1405. A turning point in the fortunes of Owain Glyndwr – it's also a junction on the Three Castles Walk and the route is clearly signposted. The resting-place of Rhys Gethin, “The Biter Bit”, however, is not.
Grosmont and Graig Hill. Castle, fine views, Three Castles Walk “Taster”. Energetic 5 mile hilly ramble.12 stiles, 2 footbridges. Map: OS 189 Hereford & Ross-on-Wye.
The Route 1. Grosmont. Park in village. Taking Grosmont Castle as the start point, with your back to its entrance drive, TL down the surfaced road, as if for Skenfrith, R of The Old Tan House. Cross the Tresenny Brook via the bridge. Bend L in front of Lower Tresenny and follow the road, slightly L for about 130m beyond the Three Castles marker post. 2. Three Castles Walk stile. TR off road across stile quite stiffly up field. Cross stile and keep ahead more gently up next field, with fence on R. After 130m, maintain line through gateway to put hedge on your L. Keep to L edge/hedge and cross f/bridge inset slightly from L corner. Climb 11 steps and TL up slope in next field, under t/phone wire, towards (what is) Little Cross Farm. Head up sunken path past marker posts, behind barn, and a few steps up to R, beyond next post. Cross stile, R of new house, to marker post, and bear R across pasture, plank bridge and stile. Go up next pasture, cross stile and next stile above in L corner. Now go half L increasingly stiffly up the edge of trees above. 3. High Meadow Wood. Pause at seat “in the Gods”. At marker post, L of seat, go slightly L up sunken way along L edge of trees. Pass post and cross stile, with fence L. Climb L edge (with Garway Hill tower over to L). Cross wide forest path ahead. Now keep on same line through trees passing several marker posts, possibly deviating to negotiate fallen trees, up a bank to leave wood into the open via stile. 4. High open pasture. Follow R edge fence up over brow, still on TCW. Pass sheep pens and start to descend on same line ahead. TL at fence and after 80m TR over stile. Bear L down pasture, SE, and drop down away from conifers which are above to your L. At marker post go through avenue of trees, R of old remains, down farm track to marker post at a more rutted track. TR down behind R of modern barn. 5. Three Castles Walk High Post. TR to leave TCW.Go NW along obvious farm track ahead, soon through gate, winding ahead and through upper R of two gates. Now strike up bank to R of line of small trees, aim-ing for conifers on skyline and cross stile. TL along Monnow Way, thus putting fence on L. (2 buildings up to R). Go through farm gate and along wide tree-lined path for 120m. 6. Path Junction. TR across stile to rejoin Three Castles Walk.(From White Castle to Grosmont). You are now heading north just over one mile to Grosmont. Descend farm track and drover’s track. Kink L and down to R, through waymarked gate, quite steeply down a possibly slippery stretch. Pass farm buildings and go steeply down wide, metalled drive. Go through gate at V junction, cross Tresenny Brook via narrow footbridge and climb back up to Grosmont to R of churchyard.
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Post by Hawkeye on Oct 5, 2021 19:17:04 GMT
Exceptional writing by anybody's standards. (No wonder they're still talking about him in the Lichfield Vaults - and everwhere fecking else....) Grosmont – A Turning Point. RHYS Gethin, “the Swarthy”, was not known for his acts of benevolence. At a time when the war for Welsh independence was gathering momentum, the warlord from Builth Wells was Owain Glyndwr's most fearsome lieutenant. An outlaw who had survived by rustling sheep since his childhood, Gethin, also known as “the Fierce” conducted guerilla operations mostly in South-east Wales. At Pilleth in 1402, he masterminded the telling defeat of a bigger army under Edmund Mortimer from his commanding position on Green Hill. The Wellingtonia trees there now mark an uneasy resting-place; it was Gethin who encouraged the Welsh camp followers to commit acts of unspeakable mutilation on bodies of the English slain in battle. When some of the warfare shifted south to Gwent, the inhabitants of English Grosmont had every reason to be fearful. In 1404 the Welsh suffered a setback two miles to the west in a pitched battle at Campstone Hill. It was said that the newly crowned Prince Owain Glyndwr himself was present and nearly captured. The Welsh standard was taken but Glyndwr escaped. In March 1405 a great rabble army had been raised from among the Welsh peasantry of Glamorgan and Gwent. After plundering Cardiff, Newport, Caerleon and Usk, the marauding menacing mass assembled at Kentchurch facing the time-honoured royal Lancastrian border town of Grosmont. A mile up the slope and across the Monnow a small but disciplined English garrison was occupying Grosmont Castle. The man at the head of the Welsh contingent was Rhys Gethin. On Wednesday 11th, the Welsh attacked and many of the English either fled into the woods or took sanc-tuary in the Cathedralesque church. But what happened next represents a seminal moment in Owain Glyndwr's quest for Welsh independence. While the superior Welsh force was engaged in the usual habit of burning and looting, Prince Hal (later Henry V) sent out from Hereford a small body of royal forces under his cousin Lord Gilbert Talbot. Writing to his father, the prince was able to exult in a resounding victory: “Lord Talbot and a small detachment of my household were joined by your faithful and valiant knights William Newport and John Greyndor, who together were but a small force. Your people won the field and vanquished all of the rebels”. There is no doubt that the Welsh, in the insolence of the aftermath of battle, incurred heavy casualties. Henry claimed that 800 of the 8,000 were killed, and the rest fled in total disarray. The walk this month starts from moated Grosmont Castle, which occupies a site with little fanfare. It is a quiet, unheralded place. The settlement is in typically undulating border territory. We climb, quite ener-getically, on to Graig Hill above Grosmont where the final rout of the Welsh is said to have taken place on that March day in 1405. A turning point in the fortunes of Owain Glyndwr – it's also a junction on the Three Castles Walk and the route is clearly signposted. The resting-place of Rhys Gethin, “The Biter Bit”, however, is not. Grosmont and Graig Hill. Castle, fine views, Three Castles Walk “Taster”. Energetic 5 mile hilly ramble.12 stiles, 2 footbridges. Map: OS 189 Hereford & Ross-on-Wye. The Route 1. Grosmont. Park in village. Taking Grosmont Castle as the start point, with your back to its entrance drive, TL down the surfaced road, as if for Skenfrith, R of The Old Tan House. Cross the Tresenny Brook via the bridge. Bend L in front of Lower Tresenny and follow the road, slightly L for about 130m beyond the Three Castles marker post. 2. Three Castles Walk stile. TR off road across stile quite stiffly up field. Cross stile and keep ahead more gently up next field, with fence on R. After 130m, maintain line through gateway to put hedge on your L. Keep to L edge/hedge and cross f/bridge inset slightly from L corner. Climb 11 steps and TL up slope in next field, under t/phone wire, towards (what is) Little Cross Farm. Head up sunken path past marker posts, behind barn, and a few steps up to R, beyond next post. Cross stile, R of new house, to marker post, and bear R across pasture, plank bridge and stile. Go up next pasture, cross stile and next stile above in L corner. Now go half L increasingly stiffly up the edge of trees above. 3. High Meadow Wood. Pause at seat “in the Gods”. At marker post, L of seat, go slightly L up sunken way along L edge of trees. Pass post and cross stile, with fence L. Climb L edge (with Garway Hill tower over to L). Cross wide forest path ahead. Now keep on same line through trees passing several marker posts, possibly deviating to negotiate fallen trees, up a bank to leave wood into the open via stile. 4. High open pasture. Follow R edge fence up over brow, still on TCW. Pass sheep pens and start to descend on same line ahead. TL at fence and after 80m TR over stile. Bear L down pasture, SE, and drop down away from conifers which are above to your L. At marker post go through avenue of trees, R of old remains, down farm track to marker post at a more rutted track. TR down behind R of modern barn. 5. Three Castles Walk High Post. TR to leave TCW.Go NW along obvious farm track ahead, soon through gate, winding ahead and through upper R of two gates. Now strike up bank to R of line of small trees, aim-ing for conifers on skyline and cross stile. TL along Monnow Way, thus putting fence on L. (2 buildings up to R). Go through farm gate and along wide tree-lined path for 120m. 6. Path Junction. TR across stile to rejoin Three Castles Walk.(From White Castle to Grosmont). You are now heading north just over one mile to Grosmont. Descend farm track and drover’s track. Kink L and down to R, through waymarked gate, quite steeply down a possibly slippery stretch. Pass farm buildings and go steeply down wide, metalled drive. Go through gate at V junction, cross Tresenny Brook via narrow footbridge and climb back up to Grosmont to R of churchyard. Liked for the first paragraph!
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Post by Monkey Tennis on Oct 5, 2021 19:27:20 GMT
Exceptional writing by anybody's standards. (No wonder they're still talking about him in the Lichfield Vaults - and everwhere fecking else....) Grosmont – A Turning Point. RHYS Gethin, “the Swarthy”, was not known for his acts of benevolence. At a time when the war for Welsh independence was gathering momentum, the warlord from Builth Wells was Owain Glyndwr's most fearsome lieutenant. An outlaw who had survived by rustling sheep since his childhood, Gethin, also known as “the Fierce” conducted guerilla operations mostly in South-east Wales. At Pilleth in 1402, he masterminded the telling defeat of a bigger army under Edmund Mortimer from his commanding position on Green Hill. The Wellingtonia trees there now mark an uneasy resting-place; it was Gethin who encouraged the Welsh camp followers to commit acts of unspeakable mutilation on bodies of the English slain in battle. When some of the warfare shifted south to Gwent, the inhabitants of English Grosmont had every reason to be fearful. In 1404 the Welsh suffered a setback two miles to the west in a pitched battle at Campstone Hill. It was said that the newly crowned Prince Owain Glyndwr himself was present and nearly captured. The Welsh standard was taken but Glyndwr escaped. In March 1405 a great rabble army had been raised from among the Welsh peasantry of Glamorgan and Gwent. After plundering Cardiff, Newport, Caerleon and Usk, the marauding menacing mass assembled at Kentchurch facing the time-honoured royal Lancastrian border town of Grosmont. A mile up the slope and across the Monnow a small but disciplined English garrison was occupying Grosmont Castle. The man at the head of the Welsh contingent was Rhys Gethin. On Wednesday 11th, the Welsh attacked and many of the English either fled into the woods or took sanc-tuary in the Cathedralesque church. But what happened next represents a seminal moment in Owain Glyndwr's quest for Welsh independence. While the superior Welsh force was engaged in the usual habit of burning and looting, Prince Hal (later Henry V) sent out from Hereford a small body of royal forces under his cousin Lord Gilbert Talbot. Writing to his father, the prince was able to exult in a resounding victory: “Lord Talbot and a small detachment of my household were joined by your faithful and valiant knights William Newport and John Greyndor, who together were but a small force. Your people won the field and vanquished all of the rebels”. There is no doubt that the Welsh, in the insolence of the aftermath of battle, incurred heavy casualties. Henry claimed that 800 of the 8,000 were killed, and the rest fled in total disarray. The walk this month starts from moated Grosmont Castle, which occupies a site with little fanfare. It is a quiet, unheralded place. The settlement is in typically undulating border territory. We climb, quite ener-getically, on to Graig Hill above Grosmont where the final rout of the Welsh is said to have taken place on that March day in 1405. A turning point in the fortunes of Owain Glyndwr – it's also a junction on the Three Castles Walk and the route is clearly signposted. The resting-place of Rhys Gethin, “The Biter Bit”, however, is not. Grosmont and Graig Hill. Castle, fine views, Three Castles Walk “Taster”. Energetic 5 mile hilly ramble.12 stiles, 2 footbridges. Map: OS 189 Hereford & Ross-on-Wye. The Route 1. Grosmont. Park in village. Taking Grosmont Castle as the start point, with your back to its entrance drive, TL down the surfaced road, as if for Skenfrith, R of The Old Tan House. Cross the Tresenny Brook via the bridge. Bend L in front of Lower Tresenny and follow the road, slightly L for about 130m beyond the Three Castles marker post. 2. Three Castles Walk stile. TR off road across stile quite stiffly up field. Cross stile and keep ahead more gently up next field, with fence on R. After 130m, maintain line through gateway to put hedge on your L. Keep to L edge/hedge and cross f/bridge inset slightly from L corner. Climb 11 steps and TL up slope in next field, under t/phone wire, towards (what is) Little Cross Farm. Head up sunken path past marker posts, behind barn, and a few steps up to R, beyond next post. Cross stile, R of new house, to marker post, and bear R across pasture, plank bridge and stile. Go up next pasture, cross stile and next stile above in L corner. Now go half L increasingly stiffly up the edge of trees above. 3. High Meadow Wood. Pause at seat “in the Gods”. At marker post, L of seat, go slightly L up sunken way along L edge of trees. Pass post and cross stile, with fence L. Climb L edge (with Garway Hill tower over to L). Cross wide forest path ahead. Now keep on same line through trees passing several marker posts, possibly deviating to negotiate fallen trees, up a bank to leave wood into the open via stile. 4. High open pasture. Follow R edge fence up over brow, still on TCW. Pass sheep pens and start to descend on same line ahead. TL at fence and after 80m TR over stile. Bear L down pasture, SE, and drop down away from conifers which are above to your L. At marker post go through avenue of trees, R of old remains, down farm track to marker post at a more rutted track. TR down behind R of modern barn. 5. Three Castles Walk High Post. TR to leave TCW.Go NW along obvious farm track ahead, soon through gate, winding ahead and through upper R of two gates. Now strike up bank to R of line of small trees, aim-ing for conifers on skyline and cross stile. TL along Monnow Way, thus putting fence on L. (2 buildings up to R). Go through farm gate and along wide tree-lined path for 120m. 6. Path Junction. TR across stile to rejoin Three Castles Walk.(From White Castle to Grosmont). You are now heading north just over one mile to Grosmont. Descend farm track and drover’s track. Kink L and down to R, through waymarked gate, quite steeply down a possibly slippery stretch. Pass farm buildings and go steeply down wide, metalled drive. Go through gate at V junction, cross Tresenny Brook via narrow footbridge and climb back up to Grosmont to R of churchyard. Liked for the first paragraph! Gorillas in SE Wales! Whatever next.
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Post by GRL on Oct 5, 2021 19:30:19 GMT
The 3 castle's *walk will give you some of the finest marches castles in the land, whitecastle, very impressive. Goodrich never fails to impress. *if only there was someone on here to guide you through it. ![](//storage.proboards.com/6317644/thumbnailer/vQGLiiPgQXnKNQncsdPP.png)
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Post by GRL on Oct 5, 2021 19:32:45 GMT
GOODRICH The Wordsworth way to Goodrich Castle.
UPON reaching Goodrich Castle from the Walford side, H. T. Timmins was greeted by an elderly dame. “When I was a child”, she said to him, “I well remember a conversation with William Wordsworth on this spot; for I am the little maiden he made immortal in We are Seven.” The verses the poet would write are not perhaps his best, but the chance encounter was to prey on his mind. I met a little cottage Girl: She was eight years old, she said; Her hair was thick with many a curl That clustered round her head. That first time in Goodrich, Wordsworthwas wandering “lonely as a cloud” and destined to end up in North Wales. Five years later he was back -in the company of his sister Dorothy. Having dined with the Reverend Richard Warner on the eve of their expedition, they almost certainly followed “A Walk Through Wales” (pictured), showing the vicar’s recommended route up the Wye Valley to Ross. After crossing the Severn Estuary to Chepstow, they made their way to Tintern and stayed the night. Next day, they crossed the Wye by ferry, walked through Redbrook to re-cross the river at Monmouth Bridge and carried on to Doward. At places along the way Wordsworthwould gain inspiration forhispoem: Lines Composed a few miles above Tintern Abbey, on Revisiting the Banks of the Wye during a Tour. July 13, 1798. It maynot bethe neatest of titles but followers have had fun seeking outits principal settings: The sounding cataract Haunted me like a passion gives every encouragement to Llandogo to claim Wordsworth for its own - at Cleddon Falls; but consensus seems to have grown that lots of verses are more suggestive of Symonds Yat, called “New Weir” at the time. It’s definitely “a few (more)miles above Tintern”, and at Seven Sisters Rocks, Doward and King Arthur’s Cave, Wordsworth rambled beneath many a Hermit’s Cave, where by his fire The Hermit sits alone. From the west side of New Weir, the Wordsworths ferried across the river to the east - just as you can nowadays – and climbed up to Yat Rock. “O sylvan Wye,thouwanderer through the woods, How often has my spirit turned to thee!” The Roman name for the Wye was Vaga. Nowhere along the Wye’s wandering course will you get a better idea of its vagaries than from the top of “the tall rock” in this last part of the Wordsworths’ journey. From Yat they descended the “mountain and the deep and gloomy wood” past Hensham (Huntsham Court), 800 yards right of the Queen Stone, and on to St Giles Church, which they could see from Hunt’s Holm Rope. From Huntsham, now a bridge rather than a ferry, our elegiac walk takes a similar path through Granton and St Giles churchyard to Goodrich Castle. Even though Wordsworth stayed a night in Goodrich - and he wrote that the meeting had been by the castle - he was unable to find his little Cottage Girlagain. “Their graves are green, they may be seen,” The little Maid replied, “Twelve steps or more from my mother’s door, And they are side by side. So, Wordsworth was back again in 1841. “It would have given me a greater pleasure to have found traces of one who had interested me so much; but that was impossible as, unfortunately, I did not even know her name”. If the girl’s family home was only “twelve steps” away, it may even have been overlooking our route. It’s strange he couldn’t find her; it seems she probably didn’t join her siblings in the graveyard too early; in Goodrich, by the 1880s and1890s, it was nigh on impossible to escape the clutches of the maid who’d met Wordsworth. Shewas also edging towards that immortality; indeed, the dame who accosted Timmins was a sprightly 110. One of a Golden host of daffy girls.
Goodrich and Welsh Bicknor. Glorious 6½ mile ramble. Moderate. Village, estate grounds, hamlet, 3½ miles of sinuous river. Approach Goodrich the Wordsworth way. Map: Explorer OL14, Wye Valley and Forest of Dean.
The Route 1. Goodrich Castle car park. Having paid £1, walk back to bottom of drive.TL along the minor road to Courtfield and Welsh Bicknor. Climb and keep ahead for the Youth Hostel. Cross cattle grid into the Courtfield Estate. At Primrose Cottage, fork R for YHA Only. Start descending track towards YHA as far as a small, semi-circular parking area on the right. Now leave metalled track to TR down steep, narrow footpath through trees. Just below stepped section at bottom, TL at marker post, passing Wye Valley Walk board, to marker post beyond and below church. 2. Welsh Bicknor Church. Turn sharp R along Wye Valley Walk along riverbank. Skirt the disused railway bridge which crossed to Lybrook Station.(At Edison Swan, The Pipeline Under The Ocean(PLUTO) was partly produced in the Second World War,to supply fuel for the D-Day Landings.) Shortly beyond the bridge, you will reach a metal gate. 3. Bank and footbridge. Bear L down the bank, across wooden f/bridge to follow the riverbank. Keep going for at least a mile to a point between the wooded peak of Rosemary Topping on the opposite bank and The Green farm up to your right. (Here, near a tump is the unheralded spot where the radar genius and inventor Alan Blumlein perished with ten colleagues on 7th June, 1942.)Carry on. Pass the memorial to John Warre. Reach Coldwell Rocks and the famous viewpoint on Yat Rock, towering above you on the opposite bank. Now sweep around to the right for a further one and a half miles towards Goodrich. Reach point just before Huntsham Bridge. 4. Private gate and residence. TR, away from riverbank.TL through 2 gates to road.TR along road to T-junction. With Rocklands Lodge on your R, cross road, up footpath. Cross stile on L. Turn immediately R up permissive path following R edge of arable field. Go through gap into next field. Just before end, TR over stile. TL along track, past White Hall to road. TR. Just past the old vicarage, TL up grassy bank, through white gate and follow bottom edge of churchyard. Go through gate other side, gate, down to school and road. TL and TR.
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Post by GRL on Oct 5, 2021 19:38:03 GMT
The 3 castle's *walk will give you some of the finest marches castles in the land, whitecastle, very impressive. Goodrich never fails to impress. *if only there was someone on here to guide you through it. Yet the tiny Chapel at Kilpeck gives me goosebumps. ![](//storage.proboards.com/6317644/thumbnailer/fUJxeEZnyYcWMXRLzYdM.png)
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Post by GRL on Oct 5, 2021 19:38:55 GMT
Walk for January 13th, 2011
Kilpeck, Cole’s Tump, Orcop Hill and Mynde Park
“The Vagaries of Justice”
At the time of the English Civil War, Kilpeck and Much Dewchurch were solid Royalist outposts. Kilpeck Castle, just to the west of the corbelled church was originally Welsh, then Saxon and later developed into an impressive fortress by the Normans. Now it was at the behest of King Charles. Less than two miles away, Sir Walter Pye the Younger, the knight residing at The Mynde (point 5 on a fine ramble), was also a supporter of the King. When the Earl of Stamford occupied Hereford for Parliament, Royalists seeking to threaten him from the Monmouth direction, had a convenient foot-hold at Pye’s Much Dewchurch bulwark . It was from here that a small boy delivered a note to Hereford for Sergeant-Major Ferrar of the Foot Regiment which offered him £500, a pardon, and a promotion in the King’s army if he would assist in a Royal takeover of the city. Such bribes to prompt desertion werenot unusual buton this occasion it was declined. Briefly imprisoned when William Waller took Hereford after the shortest of skirmishes like Stamford before him, Sir Walter became ever more determined to advance the King’s interests in his territory. As “commissioner of array” in the county he was used to mobilising forces and in July 1643 he was one of nine nobles at the head of 600 men laying siege to Lady Brilliana Harley’s Roundhead enclave at Brampton Bryan Castle. The Mynde had become prosperous in the time of his father, Attorney General to King James, and was fortified during the Civil War. It is testimony to its strength that no attempt was made on it at the time by a Parliamentary army. Sir Walter the Younger died in 1659 one year before the restoration of the monarchy and the return of the established Anglican Church. For his second son, Robert Pye, owner of the Mynde by 1674, it was to be his religious, rather than political, affiliation which determined his fate. While walking from the Mynde towards Wormelow, Pye espied his neighbour John Bodenham of “Bryngwyn” trimming his hedge. Bodenham, a zealous Roman Catholic, had refused to take the Oaths of Abjuration and Allegiance before the Hereford Justices of the Peace including Pye, a staunch Protestant. When Pye accosted him and pulled a summons out of his pocket, Bodenham swore and beat him so violently with a billhook that he died a few days later. But when Bodenham was put on trial, he pleaded “Benefit of Clergy” and was discharged. A century later, Susannah Minton, a servant at Paul Gwatkin’s farm near Kilpeck church, was found guilty of stealing a large number of caps, linen sleeves and other articles, and setting fire to his barn. It seems that while the household was distracted by the fire that she had started, the girl purloined some finery which she’d seen her mistress modelling. Though she was of weak intellect and of previous good character, the judge felt that she deserved the full punishment of the law. He ruled that Susannah should be shown no mercy andthe seventeen-year-old was hanged at Hereford on 16th September, 1786, in front of a large crowd. Our quite energetic six mile ramble in old Royalist territory sets off from the vicinity of the poor uneducated Kilpeck girl’s felony. It passes the estate of the Justice of the Peace who was murdered by a religious landowner. Whilstthe information boards on the site of Kilpeck Castle and medieval villageat the start give you a feel for the history of the area, perhaps the vagaries of justice deserve their own chapter in the story.
Kilpeck, Cole’s Tump, Orcop Hill and Mynde Park. Quiet lanes, field paths, fine views and parkland. Hilly.A fine, energetic six-mile ramble. OS Explorer 189, Hereford & Ross-on-Wye.
THE ROUTE 1 Kilpeck church, parking bay opposite barn. Walk away L of church into Kilpeck. In front of Kilpeck Inn, TR, bend L by Old School House, and keep ahead at junction past village hall. Climb up lane (past drive to Dippersmoor and a R turn) to T junction. TR along scenic No Through Road to (what is) New House Farm, with pond (L). 2 New House Farm. Go straight ahead through farmyard and exit via gate/stile. Go ahead along fenced/hedged R edge. In R corner, go through wooden gate and TR. Follow R edge/hedge, bend L and, just beyond tree, go straight ahead through gap to put hedge on L. Bend R 75m, then TL through gap and follow L edge/hedge through unmarked metal gate up wide, tree-lined grassy avenue. Keep L on gravel by barn, bear L up byway over mini-grid, to junction at Primrose Cottage. Go ahead up minor road (with the Mynde appearing down L), and ahead at next junction to Butts Bungalow (L). 3 Butts Bungalow.TL along signed path through two gates or over stiles. (The clump of trees up to R is Cole’s Tump – Alfred Watkins’s noted sighting point). Bend R along fine high path, ahead at path junction below telegraph wires, L of stone cottage, ahead at gate/stile and marker post into Mynde Wood (with its fallow deer). After 300 m, just through clearing, TR up steps and over double stile to exitMynde Wood. Now be careful! It’s a huge field and you want the far side of it over the crest. Go straight ahead on the same line that you took up over the steps and stiles. Maintain it, perhaps bearing a little right up over the top (with Cole’s Tump clump of trees over to R). On the far edge of the same field you will find a stile in the hedge. 4 “Green Lane”, Orcop Hill.Cross stile, TL beyond a dwelling (below R), continue, dropping, to a surfaced road. TL at Springfield, over grid (L of Yew Tree Cottage), drop 200m to grid and cross stile (R) into pasture. Maintain original line, skirting elbow of Bettws Court Farm, up over two stiles back into Mynde Wood. Now, keep descending, ignoring turns, straight ahead beyond steps and marker post on to broader path, still ahead at next post, then a little Rat post on edge of wood and out via gate into paddock. Go ahead through buildings, R of stable block via two gates along drive to grid at The Mynde. 5 The Mynde (Royalist stronghold in The Civil War). TL at gate/grid, (with old mansion and clock tower R, and pond L), over 2nd grid, up broad gravel track, with fine views. At “Herefordshire Trail” marker, (with barn front R), keep to L of hedge, TR over stile by house and keep same line ahead over two more stiles on to road. Go straight across road through metal gate into field, to waymarked elbow (L). TL down across f/bridge, bear R up through metal gate in hedge, ahead through next field and gap in hedge. Go down next field, bearing slightly R to middle bottom and cross f/bridge. Climb to R of cottage. 6 Nash Hill Cottage. Cross stile, TL 20 m and TR through gate. Bear L to elbow, then TR down field towards pylon over 3 planks/stile, straight across next field, stile and f/bridge. TL 35m, over stile, along L edge, through metal gate, bear R to cross stile in R corner by Kilpeck Inn. TR for church.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 5, 2021 19:56:59 GMT
Sorry chaps, my bad.
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Post by GRL on Oct 6, 2021 9:02:07 GMT
Let's all hope "chaps" includes all genders in these heavily misandrous, misogynistic and transphobic times.
Edit: "chap" is a man, a boy or a fellow. Tut, tut.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 6, 2021 11:25:09 GMT
Let's all hope "chaps" includes all genders in these heavily misandrous, misogynistic and transphobic times. Edit: "chap" is a man, a boy or a fellow. Tut, tut. Well, we're not following the dictionary definitions of any of those these days. That Priti Patel chap is a feckin misogynist, that's for sure. She clearly hates Raab, and rightly so. The stupid bellend.
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Post by eggchaserbull on Oct 6, 2021 13:25:10 GMT
Let's all hope "chaps" includes all genders in these heavily misandrous, misogynistic and transphobic times. Edit: "chap" is a man, a boy or a fellow.Tut, tut. Let's not forget bits of meat from a pig's cheek, or those worn by one or two of the Village People. Your post reminds me of this, that was told to me at the weekend, which, scandalously, made I chuckle; "I don’t think I’d have the patience to be a parent, today; not only do you have to be able to explain the Birds & the Bees, you have to be able to explain the Bees & the Bees, the Birds & the Birds, the Birds that used to be Bees, the Bees that used to be Birds, the Birds that look like Bees, the Bees that look like Birds, and Bees that look like Birds but still have a stinger."I probably need to go and have some quiet time to reflect why I found that funny, and whether I should de-platform myself or go onto another forum with some sort of virtue signalling post.
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Post by Incognito on Oct 6, 2021 15:04:13 GMT
Let's all hope "chaps" includes all genders in these heavily misandrous, misogynistic and transphobic times. Edit: "chap" is a man, a boy or a fellow. Tut, tut. Odd isn't it. Perhaps you could explain why, when my wife and I visit a restaurant or the cinema, the welcoming person refers to us as guys?
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Post by ronnieclayton on Oct 6, 2021 18:36:35 GMT
Yet again, in relation to the Wye and Symonds Yat I have missed an opportunity to regale you all with my, albeit, limited knowledge of Geology/Geomorphology.
I was about to embark here on an exposition of a famous conundrum relating to the meanders of the Wye in this area. I am however acutely aware that reprinting large chunks of previous work on here might not be entirely advantageous to my reputation.
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