River Wye

River Wye is in Severn Estuary.

Flowers of History. 25 Dec 1066. William (age 38) was consecrated king, and crowned on the day of the Nativity of our Lord, on the second day of the week, by Ealdred, archbishop of York, as I have said before, because Stigand, archbishop of Canterbury, had been suspended by pope Alexander (age 56) as a schismatic. At that time there was a very powerful officer, Eadric, surnamed Silvaticus, the son of Aelfric-, the son of Edric Streona; and the chatelains of Hereford, and Richard, the son of Scrob, frequently laid waste his territories, because he disdained to submit to the king (age 38), but, as often as they attacked him they lost a great number of their soldiers and men-at-arms. Therefore Edric invited Bleothwin and Biwathe, kings of Wales, to come to his assistance; and, about the day of The Assumption of the blessed Virgin, he laid waste the province of Hereford, as far as the bridge over the river Wye, and carried off a large booty.

Around 1450. The Wye Bridge Hereford [Map] is six-bay 15th-century bridge across the River Wye in Hereford [Map]. All six bays have cutwaters and pedestrian refuges built into the parapeted top. In 1490 a gatehouse was added to the southern end of the bridge to control access to the town. In 1645 the bridge was damaged during the Civil War. The bridge was rebuilt in the 17th century and widened in 1826.

In 1922 a suspension bridge, known as Lady Milford's Bridge, was built across the nearby River Wye 1922 by David Rowell & Company at Llanstephan Suspension Bridge [Map]. The eponymous Lady Milford was Ethel Georgina Speke Baroness Milford.

Capler Camp, Herefordshire [Map] is an Iron Age Hillfort. The Camp is on a hill top above the River Wye. It has a double layer of ditches enclosing 40,000m2.

Newbridge-on-Wye [Map] was historically a stop off point for drovers, who moved livestock from place to place. Newbridge-on-Wye proved to be an ideal location for drovers to stop and rest because it afforded a safe crossing-point on the River Wye. This led to a settlement forming, including a large number of pubs.

Plynlimon [Map] is the source of both the River Severn and River Wye.