136 WEST DEAN. GLOUCESTERSHIRE. [ KELLY'S selves freely of so valuable a means of adding to their Lydbrook, under the heading of Lydbrook; and Christ resources. With but few intermissions during the cen- Church, comprising part of Berry Hill, Joyford and H:i1­ turies which have elapsed since medireval times, mining lersland, Edge End and Five Acre. operations in the Forest have been actively continued, The following! places in the township of West Dean and the modern development of the trade has been so are not included in the above ecclesiastical parishes:_ great as to have called into existence numerous districts ELLWOOD, 2 miles south-east from Coleford; h~re is filled with a large industrial population. The coal ob- a Primitive Methodist chapel, erected in 1875: CLEAR. tained from the several collieries not only supplies the WELL MESNE, 2 miles south-east: BREAM'S EA.VES, requirements of the localities around, but is largely trans- 5 south-east, and part of MILKWALL, I mile south-east, mitted to other parts of the kingdom, but the iron ore with a station on the Severn and Wye and Severn Bridge (brown hrematite), formerly sent in large quantities into railway. the county of Stafford and to South Wales, is now (1897), Post Office, Milkwall.-Henry James Little, sub-post- in consequence of the depression in trade and the vast . quantities imported from Spain, but little worked. The master. Letters through Coleford, whIch is the clay of the Forest is specially adapted for the making nearest money order & telegraph office, arrive at 7 of fire bricks. There are also many extensive quarries a.m.; dispatched at 6.20 p.m. Postal orders are issu~ . h F . I. h hi h II here, hut not paid lD t e orest Yle dmg sandstone of t e g est exce ence Wall Letter Box, Ellwood, cleared at 6.20 p.m for building purposes; this stone is also used to a con- siderable extent for monumental purposes as well as for THE ROYAL FOREST OF DEAN; office, Coleford. troughs and grindstones. Within the Forest of Dean there are also tin works and chemical distilleries, but it The Gaveller, E. Stafford Howard esq still retains within its vast extent some of the most Deputy Gaveller, Thomas Forster :Brown esq lovely woodland scenery in the kingdom. The CroOwn is Deputy Snrveyor & Crown Receiver, Philip Baylis esq lord of the manor and the principal landowner. The Registrar & Receiver, Thomas Forster Brown esq surface of the Forest and the Crown lands known as H.M. Inspector of Mines, Joseph S. Martin esq. Durdham the "High Meadow estate," are under the management park, Clifton of the Deputy-Surveyor; the mines are under the A. School Board of 10 members was formed March 22, management of the Deputy-Gaveller. The township ex- 1875, for the Forest of Dean, which comprises East &; tends over an area of 10,035 acres, 2,060 of which are West Dean, to which Newland is contributory, sending cultivated; the rateable value is £13,497, and comprises 2 members; John Samuel Bradstock, Oinderford, clerk the greater portion of the Forest of Dean, with a popula- to the board; J oseph George Cooper, Cinderford, &; tion in 1891 of 9,130, divided into four ecclesiastical Charles Smith, Coleford, attendance officer parishes, viz.: St. Paul's, which comprises the hamlets Board Schools, ElIwood .(mixed & infants), built, ",itb of Park End, Whitecroft and Futterill, which will be master's residence, in 1877 & enlarged in 1894, for 318 found under the heading of Park End; .All Saints, cam· children; average attendance, 168 mixed & 92 infants; prising YOl'kley and Viney Hill, under the heading of Joseph Pope, master; Mrs. EleaIlJor Eliza Meek, girls' Viney Hill; Holy Jesus, comprising the greater part of & infants' mistress BREAM'S EAVES. Nash William, farmer & haulier MILKWALL. (For names of Bream's Eaves, see PoweU James, shopkeeper Cole James, shopkeeper :Bream.) Preoce John, &hopkeeper Dowle Frances (Mrs.), shopkeeper Reece Thomas Hy. quarry proprietor Drake Charles, supt. for Wesleyan &; CLEARWELL MESNE. (blue &;, grey), Drybrook; res. 5 General. Assurance Co Davis John, beer retailer Gloucester road, Coleford Edwards Richard, beer retailer Williams Agatha (Mrs.), shopkeeper J ames John, shopkeeper . ELLWOOD. Williams Joseph, farmer Morgan rrom 0& Co. mechanical engi­ Nash James, beer retailer IlOO'1"S '& machinists DEERHURST is a parish on the eastern bank of the sum is applied to church purposes and the poor of the navigable river Severn, on the Worcestershire border, 4 parish. miles south-west (by road) from Tewkesbury, 7 north- The remarkable Saxon chapel discovered here in west from Cheltenham and la north-north-east from' August, 1885, stands about 80 yards from the southern Gloucester, in the Northern division of the county, partly extremity of the churchyard, and had been built into and in Deerhurst hundred and partly in the lower division of made to form part of It. fine half-timbered house, known Westminster hundred, union and county court district, as" Abbot's Court"; this occurred in the 16th or 17th petty sessional division of Tewkesbury, rural deanery of century, the chapel being plastered over, its doors and Winchcomb, and al'chdeaconry and diocese of Gloucester. windows built up, the interior divided into floors, and This place furnishes the title of Viscount to the Coventry other windows made to light these: the chapel appears family, Earls 'Of Coventry, having been first bestowed to have been a private chapel attached to the Manor upon Thomas, 5th baron Coventry, in 1697. The church House, and with the manOr belonged till recently (e­ of St. Mary, formerly belonging to the priory, is an 188o), to tae Dean and Chapter {)f Westminster; the edifice of great antiquity and singular character, dating manor having been given to the abbey 'Of Westminster by probably from the 8th century, originally consisting of a Edward the Confessor in the last year of his reign, A.D. choir (20 by 21 feet) with presbytery and aisles, clere- 1065; this grant was Tenewed by the Conqueror, and storied nave of four bays (38 by 21 feet) and a western Deerhurst appears in Domesday as the possession of the tower, the entire length being 105 feet: the presbytery, abbey. In 1675 an inscribed stone, now in the Ash· with the exception of the foundations and one of the side molean Museum, Oxford, was discovered near the site of walls, has disappeared, as well as one half of each choir this chapel by John Powell esq. (then town clerk of the aisle, but otherwise the church preserves substantially its city of Gloucester and subsequently :Baron of the Ex­ ancient features: the tower, the upper stage of which is chequ.er and Justice of the Queen's Bench), the inscrip­ of later date than the general fabric, is 70 feet in height, tion on which recites that in 1056 Odda, Duke or Earl of and contains a clock and 6 bells": in its eastern wall is a Mercia, built here an~ dedicated an "aula regia" in double window with triangular headings looking into the honour of the Holy Trinity; the building thus designated nave, and the lower stage forms a porch, with chambers is believed to be the lately discovered chapel, the term above it: the south aisle of the nave was added in the 12th "aula regia" having, it is supposed, been employed ill­ century and the north aisle later: most of the windows stead of the more usual term" basilica." The chapel con­ are Decorated, but some are of Perpendicular date: the sists of a na.ve 25 feet 6 inches by IS feet 10 inches, and a font, carved with ornamental work not later, it is be- chancel 14 feet by II feet 2 inches: the walls, constructed lieved, than the 9th century, is very curious and interest- of thin stones of blue lias, with very 'Wide mortar joinb, ing: the existing arrangements of the chancel are peculiar are 2 feet 3 inches thick: the nave has north Bnd south and probably of Puritan origin: in the church is a brass doorways and two small round-headed windows, high up with effigy to John Cassy, appointed chief baron of the in the wall: the chancel arch remained, though somewhat Exchequer 12 May, 1389, ob. 14°0; his family held the mntilated, and has characteristic moulded imposts: tlie manor of Wightfield in. this parish fr{)m the reign of south wall of the chancel was gone; the east end abuts on Edw. m. to the end of that of Queen Elizabeth; on the the house, and in the north-east angle is an Early F.nglisb brass occur the royal arms of England, indicative of his corbel.:By permission of the Ecclesiastical Commissioners holding office under the Crown. The register dates from the chapel was restored in 1886, at a cost of 3bout £120, the year 1558. The living is a vicarage, net yearly value all the walls being made good, the ancient doors and £250, with glebe (£24 lOS.) and residence, in the gift of windows re-opened, and the chancel arch repaired: during the :Bishop of Gloucester, and held since 1893 by the Rev. the progress of the work a fragment of another inscribed Daniel George Lysons M.A. of Exeter College, Oxford.] stone was found built into a chimney-stack, but originally There is' a Wesleyan chapel at Apperley. The charities set up near an altar to indicate its dedication; the legend arising from the rent of land amount to £20 yearly, which being incomplete, renders it doubtful whethel' the dedica-