Nennius, a ninth-century historian, mentions a " Hot Lake " in the land of the Hwicce, which was along the Severn, and adds " It is surrounded by a wall, made of brick and stone, and men may go there to bathe at any time, and every man can have the kind of bath he likes.

He is buried between Keats and Severn in the Protestant Cemetery in Rome.

There is a memorial plaque to him in the small village church of Strensham, Worcestershire, near the town of Upton upon Severn, his birthplace.

* 1966 – The Severn Bridge is officially opened by Queen Elizabeth II.

His car is found 2 weeks later at Severn View services in Aust.

** The Iron Bridge is erected across the River Severn in Shropshire, the world's first bridge built entirely of cast iron.

Opened in 1971, it is one of Britain's longest National Trails, stretching for from the Severn estuary at Sedbury, near Chepstow, to Prestatyn on the north Wales coast.

The other station, Kidderminster Town, is that of the preserved Heritage Railway line, Severn Valley Railway ; trains run from here to Bridgnorth.

The idea seems to have originated in a spoof history essay by Professor David Daube written for The Oxford Magazine in 1956, which was widely believed despite obvious improbabilities ( e. g., planning to cross River Severn by running the ram down a hill at speed, although the river is about 30 m ( 100 feet ) wide at this point ).

The Dover lifeboat is a Severn class lifeboat based in the Western Docks.

There is a Severn class lifeboat, which is the biggest in the fleet.

The Severn class is designed to lay afloat.

In climatic terms, the town is located between those areas around the Severn estuary which show a maritime influence, and the cooler and drier conditions of the Midlands of England further inland.

Thus, the unmarried son of The Prince of Wales is Prince Harry of Wales ; the daughters of the Duke of York are Princess Beatrice of York and Princess Eugenie of York ; the children of the Earl of Wessex are Lady Louise Windsor and Viscount Severn.

Although the Severn is visible from British Camp, it is nowhere near it, so this battle must have taken place elsewhere.

The Severn bore is a tidal bore seen on the tidal reaches of the River Severn in England.

The Severn bore is not a self-reinforcing solitary wave or soliton but rather a shock wave which is formed because the wave is travelling faster than the wave speed in water above the Bore ( see tidal bore for more details ).

The primary viewpoint at Minsterworth is at the Severn Bore Inn on the A48.

The campus is located on the former grounds of Fort Severn at the confluence of the Severn River and Chesapeake Bay, approximately east of Washington, D. C. and southeast of Baltimore, Maryland.

Its tower in the Perpendicular style is described by Alec Clifton-Taylor as " exquisite " and is seen best across the River Severn.

He set only a handful of his own poems, the best known being Severn Meadows.

Lying on the River Severn, within the historic boundaries of Montgomeryshire, the town is best known as the birthplace of Robert Owen in 1771 with his former house now being a museum.

In 1913 Henry Elwes wrote that " Its true value as a landscape tree may be best estimated by looking down from an eminence in almost any part of the valley of the Thames, or of the Severn below Worcester, during the latter half of November, when the bright golden colour of the lines of elms in the hedgerows is one of the most striking scenes that England can produce ".

The Arranmore RNLI Station, with its Severn class lifeboat, is amongst the best equipped in the county.

Minsterworth is one of the best places to view the Severn Bore, where people can be seen surfing and water skiing from the local water ski club.

Keats and Severn had known one another in England, but they were only passing acquaintances.

One area of Gloucester County is known as Guinea, which includes the unincorporated communities of Achilles, Bena, Severn, and Big Island.

Severn claims instead to be from Coldwater, Michigan ; the reason behind this is not known.

In its lower reaches from Bath to the Severn Estuary at Avonmouth near Bristol the river is navigable and known as the Avon Navigation.

The Grand Trunk was a part of a larger scheme of Brindley's to link the four main rivers of England ( Trent, Mersey, Severn and Thames ) in a project known as the " Grand Cross ".

The Herefordshire and Gloucestershire Canal ( sometimes known as the Hereford and Gloucester Canal ) is a canal in the west of England, which ran from Hereford to Gloucester, where it linked to the River Severn.

The oldest site of known habitation at Chepstow is at Thornwell, overlooking the estuaries of the Wye and Severn close to the modern M48 motorway junction, where archaeological investigations in advance of recent housing development revealed continuous human occupation from the Mesolithic period of around 5000 BC until the end of the Roman period, about 400 AD.

The incoming water was fresh, not from the Severn but from the Welsh side, and the source became known as " The Great Spring ".

As Cardiff's coal exports grew, so did its population ; dockworkers and sailors from across the world settled in neighbourhoods close to the docks, known as Tiger Bay from the fierce currents around the local tidal stretches of the River Severn.

A sandy slope locally known as Bewdley Beach, located on the northern Severn side, is used by local residents as a leisure area.

Daniel's Mill, a well known watermill is situated a short distance along the River Severn from Bridgnorth.

A branch off the Severn Valley Railway known as the " Tenbury Line " once ran through the Wyre Forest.

In what is known as the Battle of the Severn ( March 25, 1655 ), Stone was defeated and taken prisoner.

One theory is that the Severn crossing was known to the Romans as Traiectus Augustus from a connection with the Legio II Augusta, stationed at Glevum ( modern Gloucester ) and from AD 75 at Isca Augusta ( modern Caerleon ), but Gelling thought that the connection with the Legio Augusta was doubtful.

A road, now known as the Old Passage, runs near the A403 which follows the bank of the River Severn.

The road, known locally as Over Lane, follows the foot of the escarpment which overlooks the Severn floodplain, whereas the motorway follows the ridge.

On the north-west fringe of Patchway Estate, a footbridge ( known locally as the Banana Bridge ) passes over the M5 motorway, and leads to a footpath that passes down over the steep Severn Escarpment into the village of Over.

Chief John Aisance and his band of Chippewas ( also known as Ojibwa ) settled along the Severn River in 1830, calling the place Gissinausebing, which means " cold water.

A local landmark is Churchdown Hill ( also known locally as Chosen Hill ), which rises to 154 metres ( 510 ft ) above sea level and has views across the Severn Vale and to the Cotswolds, Gloucester, Cheltenham, the Malvern Hills, and into Worcestershire.

In parts of the Severn Valley, the tree occurred at densities of over 1000 per square kilometre, so prolific as to have been known as the ' Worcester Weed '

* Kiss 101, previously known as " Vibe 101 ", based in South Wales and Severn Estuary area, including Bristol

There are two bridges at Atcham, the older one, built in 1774, is commonly known as Atcham Bridge, while the newer one, which was opened in 1929, carries the Old A5 ( B4380 ) road over the River Severn.