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See also:DEAN, See also:FOREST OF , a See also:district in the See also:west of See also:Gloucestershire, See also:England, between the See also:Severn and the Wye. It extends northwa.rd in an See also:oval See also:form from the junction of these See also:rivers, for a distance of 20 m., with an extreme breadth of so m., and still retains its true forest See also:character. The See also:surface is agreeably undulating, its See also:elevation ranging from 12o to nearly s000 ft., and its sandy See also:peat See also:soil renders it most suitable for the growth of See also:timber, which is the cause of its having been a royal forest from See also:- TIME (0. Eng. Lima, cf. Icel. timi, Swed. timme, hour, Dan. time; from the root also seen in " tide," properly the time of between the flow and ebb of the sea, cf. O. Eng. getidan, to happen, " even-tide," &c.; it is not directly related to Lat. tempus)
- TIME, MEASUREMENT OF
- TIME, STANDARD
time immemorial. It is recorded that the commanders of the See also:Armada had orders not to leave in it a See also:- TREE (0. Eng. treo, treow, cf. Dan. tree, Swed. Odd, tree, trd, timber; allied forms are found in Russ. drevo, Gr. opus, oak, and 36pv, spear, Welsh derw, Irish darog, oak, and Skr. dare, wood)
- TREE, SIR HERBERT BEERBOHM (1853- )
tree See also:standing. In the reign of See also:Charles I." the forest contained 105,537 trees, and, straitened for See also:money, the See also:- KING
- KING (O. Eng. cyning, abbreviated into cyng, cing; cf. O. H. G. chun- kuning, chun- kunig, M.H.G. kiinic, kiinec, kiinc, Mod. Ger. Konig, O. Norse konungr, kongr, Swed. konung, kung)
- KING [OF OCKHAM], PETER KING, 1ST BARON (1669-1734)
- KING, CHARLES WILLIAM (1818-1888)
- KING, CLARENCE (1842–1901)
- KING, EDWARD (1612–1637)
- KING, EDWARD (1829–1910)
- KING, HENRY (1591-1669)
- KING, RUFUS (1755–1827)
- KING, THOMAS (1730–1805)
- KING, WILLIAM (1650-1729)
- KING, WILLIAM (1663–1712)
king granted it to See also:Sir See also:John Wyntour for £Io,000, and a See also:fee See also:farm See also:rent of £2000. The See also:- GRANT (from A.-Fr. graunter, O. Fr. greanter for creanter, popular Lat. creantare, for credentare, to entrust, Lat. credere, to believe, trust)
- GRANT, ANNE (1755-1838)
- GRANT, CHARLES (1746-1823)
- GRANT, GEORGE MONRO (1835–1902)
- GRANT, JAMES (1822–1887)
- GRANT, JAMES AUGUSTUS (1827–1892)
- GRANT, ROBERT (1814-1892)
- GRANT, SIR ALEXANDER
- GRANT, SIR FRANCIS (1803-1878)
- GRANT, SIR JAMES HOPE (1808–1895)
- GRANT, SIR PATRICK (1804-1895)
- GRANT, U
- GRANT, ULYSSES SIMPSON (1822-1885)
grant was cancelled by See also:Cromwell; but at the Restoration only 30,000 trees were See also:left, and Wyntour, the Royalist See also:commander, having got another grant, destroyed all but 200 trees See also:fit for See also:navy timber. In 168o an See also:act was passed to enclose r i,000 acres and plant with See also:oak and See also:beech for See also:supply of the See also:dockyards; and the See also:present forest, though not containing. very many gigantic oaks, has six " walks " covered with timber in various stages of growth.
The forest is locally governed by two See also:crown-appointed See also:deputy gavellers to superintend the See also:woods and mines, and four verderers elected by the freeholders, whose See also:- OFFICE (from Lat. officium, " duty," " service," a shortened form of opifacium, from facere, " to do," and either the stem of opes, " wealth," " aid," or opus, " work ")
office, since the extermination of the See also:deer in 185o, is almost purely honorary. From time immemorial all persons See also:born in the See also:hundred of St Briavel's, who
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have worked a See also:year and a See also:day in a See also:coal mine, become " See also:free miners," and may See also:work coal in any See also:part of the forest not previously occupied. The forest See also:laws were administered at the Speech-See also:House, a See also:building of the 17th See also:century in the See also:heart of the forest, where the verderers' See also:court is still held. The district contains coal and See also:iron mines, and quarries of building-See also:- STONE
- STONE (0. Eng. shin; the word is common to Teutonic languages, cf. Ger. Stein, Du. steen, Dan. and Swed. sten; the root is also seen in Gr. aria, pebble)
- STONE, CHARLES POMEROY (1824-1887)
- STONE, EDWARD JAMES (1831-1897)
- STONE, FRANK (1800-1859)
- STONE, GEORGE (1708—1764)
- STONE, LUCY [BLACKWELL] (1818-1893)
- STONE, MARCUS (184o— )
- STONE, NICHOLAS (1586-1647)
stone, which fortunately hardly minimize its natural beauty. Near Coleford and See also:Westbury See also:- PIT (O. E. pytt, cognate with Du. put, Ger. Pfutze, &c., all ultimately adaptations of Lat. puteus, well, formed from root pu-, to cleanse, whence gurus, clean, pure)
pit workings of the See also:Roman See also:period have been discovered, and the See also:Romans See also:drew large supplies of iron from this district. The scenery is especially See also:fine in the high ground bordering the Wye (q.v.), opposite to Symond's Yat above See also:Monmouth, and Tintern above See also:Chepstow. St Briavel's See also:Castle, above Tintern, was the headquarters of the forest officials from an See also:early date and was frequented by King John. It is a moated castle, of which the See also:north-west front remains, standing in a magnificent position high above the Wye.
See H. G. Nicholls, Forest of Dean (See also:London, 1858).
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