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FOREST of DEAN LOCAL HISTORY SOCIETY Index to Volumes 1 - 34 NEW REGARD OF THE FOREST OF DEAN FOREST OF DEAN LOCAL HISTORY SOCIETY Index to Volumes 1 - 34 Compiled by Dr. L.M. Mayer-Jones, extended by Gill Claydon Entries in italics are titles of papers; authors in bold with surnames in capitals. 4.57 means page 57 of Volume 4. 57ff means that the subject occurs on following pages too. 4.57, 80 means that the subject occurs on two pages in the same volume. www.forestofdeanhistory.org.uk Double-click on column B if necessary to reveal the whole entry. Abbey, Tintern and Bigsweir Turnpike Trust 14.5 Abbeys Flaxley - iron working 1.12 Abbots Wood, by Stan Bosher 33.46 Abbotswood Boundaries 1281 1.12; Crown freehold 16.5; House 11.7 Abenhall Dean Road 4.38, 11.32; Maynard Colchester-Wemyss' estate 7.25; Ralph of Abenhall 1282 10.27 Abenhall Flints 13.45; Guns Mill 15.33 Accidents Union Pit 6.4; Whitecroft Mill 21.62; Brain's Tramway 1871 18.44; Westbury Brook mine 22.27 Accidents Trafalgar Colliery 18.34; Accident and Death Society 18.64; Plump Hill quarry 25.33 Acetone Production 24.7 ADAMS, G.W. Was there a connection between rural Romano-Celtic temples and Romanised villas? Lydney Temple and the Chesters Villa 19.59 Adams, S & T (Coal Owners) 3.41 Adams, Thomas, Freeminer 3.5 Adding color to history: Diaries of Thomas Hale 1885-1893, by Nicola Wynn 34.37 Address by the Lord-Lieutenant of Gloucestershire… 30th June 2018 33.4 Adsett Congregational Chapel, Westbury upon Severn, by Averil Kear 18.18 Aeroplane at Cinderford, The first, [anon.] 19.54 Agriculture, Dean, in the 20th century, by Christine Martyn 16.52 Aldridge, Geoff, mayor of Whitecroft 26.50. Allaston Dean Road 4.35, 11.27; Domesday 5.20; Driffield Farm 20.33 Aluredestone Domesday 5.11, 5.19 Aluredestone of Domesday, by Cyril Hart 5.19 Alveredestone see Aluredestone Alvington Cross 2.36, 4.60; Domesday 5.19; Priory 7.21; Church 12.20; Preaching cross 14.61; Milestone 14.7 Alvington John Madok's will, 1482 6.26; Poaching 13thC 5.12; Forest Eyres, 1258 8.21, 1282 10.27 Alvington Kear's Grove 11.39; Bellringers 24.38; Joseph family 24.39; Clanna House 31.52 Alvynton, William, 1538 7.22 Ancient and notable trees in and around Dean, by Ian Standing 2.2 Ancient and notable trees in and around Dean, part two, by Ian Standing 3.25 Ancient locations in the Forest of Dean, by Cyril Hart (with Gordon Clissold) 15.17 Ancient trees of Lydney Park, The, by Geoff Waygood and Ian Standing 4.44 Another elegy in a country churchyard, by Grace Bensted and Kathleen Cave 2.46 ANSTIS, Bess Archie Freeman and Cinderford: 100 years - 1896 to 1996 12.4 ANSTIS, Ralph The Birch Hill tramroad 2.52 ANSTIS, Ralph The Teague tramroads 3.5 ANSTIS, Ralph The Trafalgar frog, with Dave Tuffley ANSTIS, Ralph Warren James and the Dean Forest riots - book review by Dr. L.M. Mayer-Jones 2.55 Archaeological finds, Some recent, by Brian Johns Polished stone axe head; flint implements; finely tooled arrow head 9.39 Archaeological notes, by Bryan Walters St Briavels; Newland; English Bicknor; Ruardean; Cherry Orchard; Lower Lydbrook; Steam Mills; Littledean; Great Howle; Hudnalls; Archaeological notes, by Bryan Walters Tidenham Chase; Staunton;Coleford; Nibley StGreen; Briavels;Eastbach Breckness Ct; Ct; New Lower Weir; Lydbrook; High Nash; Oldcroft; Sallow Staunton; Vallets; Clearwell; Lydney; Blakeney; High Woolaston; Edgehills Mile End]2.56 Archaeological notes, by Bryan Walters [50 sites - a good year!] 3.59 Archaeological notes, by Ian Standing Lydney bypass, earthwork, flint; Coleford/ Stowfield/ Woorgreen/Leyshill flints; Staunton slag; Patten stone 4.62 Archaeological notes, by D.J. Price Dean Road; Flints, Parson's Allotment, Tidenham Chase; Sherds, Newnham 5.67 Archaeological notes, by David Mullin Dean Road; Earthwork in Cornage Wood, Lea 7.57 Archaeological notes, by David J. Price Roman coin, Parkend; Flint scraper, Symonds Yat; Roman coin, Whitecroft; Stone basin, Ruspidge 6.49 Archaeological notes, by David J. Price 1stC pot, Symonds Yat; Welshbury sword; Stone-working at Mainscot Wood 7.59 Archaeological Notes, by Brian Johns and Alf Webb Polished flint axes; flint arrow head; metallic finds 13.44 Archaeology Blakeney Hill 8.36; Blakeney, Etloe, Purton 10.40; Bideford Brook Blakeney, 24.43; Wenchford 19.27 Archaeology Wye Valley 30.4; Brookways Ditch, Parkend 33.39 Archie Freeman and Cinderford: 100 years... by Bess Anstis 12.5 Ardland, Ardlond see Edland Ariconium Dean Road 1.5, 4.37; Samian ware 1.36; Bloomery slag 4.11; Rotary quern 6.30. Arlingham King's highway' 3.55; Severn Tunnel 15.8; Ferry 18.29 Arrow stones 6.19, 8.45 Arthur and Edward Colliery 9.3 Arthur Trotter and the slanting shaft engine, by Robert Oliver 29.62 Ashleworth Green Police station 15.50. Assarts 1.2; 5.12; 11.36 Aston Bridge Lodge 19.20. Aston Ingham Forest Eyre 1258, 8.21 ATKINS, Mary Charles Wesley and the Forest of Dean 21.49 ATKINS, Mary Church bells of the Forest of Dean 24.36 ATKINS, Mary Clanna House c1586-c1952 31.52 ATKINS, Mary Dr Charles Scott Garrett 1885-1972 23.50 ATKINS, Mary The Forest of Dean Local History Society 1948-2008 22.4 ATKINS, Mary John 'Crasher' White 25.37 ATKINS, Mary Jolly John Nash - a Forest 'lion comique' 23.60 ATKINS, Mary Kempley's churches - new and old, with Pat Williams 25.74 ATKINS, Mary A ramble through Woolaston history 25.59 ATKINS, Mary Reverend Henry George Nicholls MA, the Forest's first historian 23.18 ATKINS, Mary The Smarts of Woolaston 1500-1689 22.42 ATKINSON, Howard D. Excavations at Stock Farm, Clearwell 2.28 Atkinson, John 5.56 Atkinson's and Sopwith's plans of the Forest of Dean, by Ian Standing 5.51 Attempts to date a hearth site: charcoal hearth survey, Blakeney Hill woodland, by Brian Johns 7.8 Attempts to date a hearth site: an update... in Blakeney Hill woodland..., by Brian Johns 25.67 Attorney General Teague tramroads 3.9 Auctions Lydney 17.12 Aure, John of, see Awre, John of Avenant, Richard, iron master, 1692 6.45 Award of Coal and Iron Mines, 1841 4.51, 5.51 Awre Ancient oak tree 3.26; Archaeology 3.82; Chancel 1377-1401 7.22; Track line 8.42; Church 11.24 Awre Bread Riot 1795 15.15 Awre, John of, woodward 1270 5.12, 7.19 Aylburton Archaeology 3.68; Priory 7.21; Church 12.20, 17.48; Chapel 21.8; Cross 2.36, 21.8 Aylburton Forest Eyres 1258, 8.21; 1282, 10.27; Prior's Mesne 11.39, Henry Cook & Prior's Mesne 27.24 Aylburton Electricity 12.53; Bacon Factory and Cheese Dairy 16.61 Bailey Lane End Lea Bailey Lodge 19.22 Bailiwick perambulations 1282 2.8; 3.55; 4.39 Baldwin, Rev F.W. 1.18 Baldwin, James, engineman 6.6 Baldwin family Wills 6.26 BALL, Joyce and BALL, Eric The Lydbrook letters 29.6 Barnard family, of Lydney 17.7 Barnhill Lodge 19.8 Barton, Alfred Quinton, chemist and optician 1889-1956 , by Dr Margaret E Barton 17.41 BARTON, Margaret Alfred Quinton Barton, chemist and optician 1889-1956 17.41 BARTON, Margaret Turnpikes & toll houses in the Staunton, Redbrook & Newland areas, edited by Keith Walker 14.11 Basket weirs 7.12 Bate, Dorothea, palaeontologist 30.7 Bath, Abbot of 5.11 Bathurst, Anne 17.7 Bathurst, Benjamin 2.44, 4.44 Bathurst, Charles, 1st Viscount Bledisloe 34.48 Bathurst, Thomas 2.44, 17.7 Bats Horseshoe 22.31 BAXTER, Dean Standing 'The Gaff' 32.32 Baylis, Phillip, Deputy Surveyor 3.35, 7.35, 16.10, 19.5 (illus.), 20.62 BEACHAM, M.J.A. West Gloucestershire corn mills 27.33 Beachley Grant in 956, 5.11; Grant in 1223, 7.18; Civil War 14.48; Toll house 15.46; National Dockyard 32.22 BEARD, Iris I was a Brain until I married a Beard; childhood memories of Lydbrook 29.16 BEARD, Ron Cinderford through the years vol. 28 BEARD, Ron Editorial 26.5 Bearse Farm, St. Briavels Mesolithic site 1.21, 22, 2.57; Romano-British site 2.57; Tollhouse 14.18 Beatson, David, engineer 7.35 Beaver Transport Ltd 8.8 BECKMANN, George Wartime reminiscences of St. Briavels Castle 29.4 BEECH, Mabel Henry Crawshay 11.4 Beecham Group 10.35 Bellman’s Oak, Staunton 2.13; Ancient locations... 15.25 Bells, Church, of the Forest of Dean, by Mary Atkins 24.36 Bells Grammar School 1.4 Bennett, Frances 29.26 BENSTED, Grace Another elegy in a country churchyard, with Kathleen Cave 2.46 Berry Hill Tollhouse 14.14; Tollgate keeper 15.48 Better to light a candle: Royal Observer Corps… by David Mullin 34.4 Bible Christian Movement 14.55 BICK, David Ancient leats at Taynton 14.37 BICK, David Earthworks in or near Hay Wood, Oxenhall 11.35 BICK, David The enigma of Crocket's Holes, Newent 5.62 BICK, David New light on Blakeney Furnace 6.45 BICK, David Royal Commission on Coal Supplies 1903 [observations by Mr. Frank Brain] 18.33 BICK, David Two more tollhouses [Boxbush, Kerne Bridge] 17.31 Bicknor Lordship, c.1244 15.64 Bicslade Bridge under tramroad 7.34; Tramroad 13.20; Wharf 13.24 Bicslade Tramroad, The, by Ian Pope 13.20. Bicslade, see also Bixslade Bideford Brook Blakeney: an account of some interesting rubbish, by Brian Johns 24.43 Bigland, Ralph 2.46 Bigod, Roger 5.14 Bigsweir Chestnut trees 2.11; Millstones 4.56; And Tintern 1326, 7.20; Tollhouse 14.16 Bill Mill Furnace 32.38 Bill Mills Ancient highway 9.24 Billington, William, forester 16.8 Billy family, 1770- 6.27ff Bilson, Cinderford Gas works at Woodside 10.49; Green (illus.) 11.58, 12.4; School 12.6; Yard 8.3; 28 passim Bilson & Crump Meadow Collieries Co.
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