Our task is now finished: we turn away to seek “fresh fields and pastures new,” but the murmur of the Wye will remain long in our ear.
From the source of the Wye to miles. Stedva Gerrig 2½ Rhaiader 17½ Builth 14 Hay 15¼ Clifford Castle 2½ Hereford 16½ Ross 14¼
_By Land_. _m_. _f_. _p_. From Ross by the turnpike to Monmouth 10 0 0 In a straight line, or as the crow flies 9 0 10 From Ross to Chepstow by the turnpike 24 0 0 By Coleford 21 0 0 In a straight line 16 4 0
The base or supposed tunnel of the hill, between Coldwell and the New Weir, is six hundred yards; the circuit of the river is four miles two furlongs.
_By Water_. _m_. _f_. _p_. From Ross to Goodrich Castle 4 4 0 To Coldwell 7 0 0 To New Weir 4 2 0 To Monmouth 5 1 0 From Ross to Monmouth 20 7 0 To Tintern 10 4 0 To Chepstow 6 4 60 From Ross to Chepstow 37 7 60
NAMES OF PLACES AS THEY OCCUR IN DESCENDING THE RIVER FROM ROSS.
RIGHT BANK. LEFT BANK. Wilton Bridge and Castle Weir End Hill or New Hill Court Pencraig House and Wood GOODRICH Court Castle Priory or Haverford Walford Church North side of Coppet Wood Hill Lays Hill Bishop’s Wood Ruerdean Church Court Field Lidbrook Welsh Bicknor Rosemary Topping Mr. Warren’s Monument COLDWELL ROCKS South side of Coppet Wood Hill SYMOND’S YAT Goodrich Church Whitchurch NEW WEIR Great Doward Highmeadow Woods Arthur’s Vale Little Doward and Lays House Table Mount Dixton Church MONMOUTH Troy House Halfway House Penalt Redbrook Whitebrook Pen-y-van Hill and Maypole Wye Seal-house Paper Mills Pilstone House Big’s Weir House LLANDOGO St. Briavels Coedithal Weir Hudknolls Llyn Weir Brook Weir Tintern Fielding’s House TINTERN ABBEY Bennagor Crags WYNDCLIFF and Moss Cottage Fryer’s Rocks Lover’s Leap Lancaut PIERCEFIELD Piercefield Bay Twelve Apostles Tiddenham Rocks CHEPSTOW Tutshill
FROM MONMOUTH TO CHEPSTOW BY THE NEW ROAD.
Upper Redbrook 2¼ miles. Lower Redbrook ¼ Florence College 3 Big’s Weir ½ Llandogo 1 Tintern 2¾ Tintern Abbey ¾ Wyndcliff and Moss Cottage 2 St. Arvans 1 Crossway Green 1½ Chepstow ½ 15½
The distance from Chepstow to the embouchure of the Wye about three miles.
{ 85} Whateley’s Observations on Modern Gardening.
{ 106} Of late years, Mr. Pennie attempted to revive a taste for such subjects in his “Britain’s Historical Drama,” but without effect. It a work, however, of considerable merit. Southey’s Madoc has only a slender groundwork in British history.