Wyegate (General)

by slowhands , proud of his ancient Dean Forest roots, Wednesday, May 27, 2009, 12:17 (5732 days ago) @ Bronwen

also known as Wyegate or Wyegate Green

http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/302712

Part at least of the later parish of Newland was settled and cultivated in the Anglo-Saxon period when there was a manor called Wyegate, probably based on Wyegate Green above the valley of Mork brook. Before 1086, however, Wyegate was taken out of cultivation and included in the royal demesne land of the Forest.

From: 'Newland', A History of the County of Gloucester: Volume 5: Bledisloe Hundred, St. Briavels Hundred, The Forest of Dean (1996), pp. 195-231. URL: http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=23260 Date accessed: 27 May 2009.

Wyegate Green, on the south boundary high above the Mork valley, was apparently the site of an Anglo-Saxon settlement that was added to the Forest waste in the late 11th century. (fn. 8) In 1608 three houses stood on the west side of the narrow green which lay on the ancient lane from St. Briavels to Lower Redbrook hamlet. (fn. 9) In 1851 there were a few farm labourers' cottages at Wyegate Green, (fn. 10) and two survived, recently restored, in 1992.

From: 'Newland', A History of the County of Gloucester: Volume 5: Bledisloe Hundred, St. Briavels Hundred, The Forest of Dean (1996), pp. 195-231. URL: http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=23260 Date accessed: 27 May 2009.

--
Ἀριστοτέλης A Gloster & Hereford Boy in the Forest of Dean ><((((*>