The place for information on Ross-on-Wye and the Wye Valley
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St
Briavels Castle & Church
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St Briavels, located in the Forest of Dean at National Grid Reference SO 558 046 is a short (approximately 16 miles) drive from Ross. Its main features are its castle and the church of St Mary the Virgin. Now a Youth Hostel, the oldest surviving part of St. Briavels Castle was built for King John between the years of 1209 to 1211. In 1292/3, Edward 1st rebuilt the gatehouse to help protect the building from Welsh attack. The top six of the photographs below were taken in June 2002 and of the bottom two, the one of the castle to the left was taken in 1973 and the gatehouse to the right in 2001. If seen full size, the 1973 photograph, scanned from an old Kodak Pocket Instamatic negative taken during a visit during my youth when I stayed in the castle, has a sign post which shows Ross as being six and a half miles distant. This is wrong, unless it has been moved at some point within the last 29 years. |
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| Saint Briavels
Castle, 23 June 2002. Ref: P6232151 |
Saint Briavels
Castle, 23 June 2002. Ref: P6232154 |
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| Stocks,
Saint Briavels Castle, 23 June 2002. Ref: P6232155 |
Saint Briavels
Castle, 23 June 2002. Ref: P6232161 |
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| The church
of St. Mary the Virgin, Saint Briavels, 23 June 2002. Ref: P6232167 |
Saint Briavels,
23 June 2002. Ref: P6232160 |
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| Saint Briavels
Castle as it was in 1973 - a scan from one of my old 110 size negatives. |
Saint Briavels Castle gatehouse 2001. |
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