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.

Joseph Severn ( 7 December 1793 – 3 August 1879 ) was an English portrait and subject painter and a personal friend of the famous English poet John Keats.

The eldest son of a music teacher, Severn was born at Hoxton, near London, and apprenticed at the age of 14 to William Bond, an engraver.

Severn was one of seven children ; two of his brothers, Thomas ( 1801 – 1881 ) and Charles ( 1806 – 1894 ), became professional musicians, and Severn himself was an adroit pianist.

In 1819, Severn was awarded the gold medal of the Royal Academy for his painting Una and the Red Cross Knight in the Cave of Despair which was inspired by the epic poem The Faerie Queene by Edmund Spenser.

Yet it was Severn who agreed to accompany the poet to Rome when all others could, or would, not.

In fact, his father was so incensed by his departure that, as Severn reported in a late memoir, " in his insane rage he struck me a blow which fell me to the ground.

As he reported to John Taylor two weeks afterwards, " Each day he would look up in the doctors face to discover how long he should live -- he would say -- " how long will this posthumous life of mine last " -- that look was more than we could ever bear — the extreme brightness of his eyes — with his poor pallid face — were not earthly --" Severn's ordeal was recognized by Keats himself, who, a month before his death, said, " Severn I can see under your quiet look -- immense twisting and contending -- you dont know what you are reading -- you are induring for me more than I'd have you -- O!

It was also at this time that Severn met, among other notables, the sculptors John Gibson and Antonio Canova, and Lord Byron's friend, the adventurer Edward John Trelawny.

Severn was also instrumental in helping to found the British Academy of the Fine Arts in Rome, which drew the support of such influential figures as the Duke of Devonshire, John Flaxman and Sir Thomas Lawrence.

Perhaps the most dedicated patron of Severn's work in the 1830s was William Gladstone, who was drawn to Severn more for his reputation as a painter than as Keats's friend.

Although he was never able to match his early artistic success in Rome and eventually had to flee his creditors for the Isle of Jersey in 1853, it should be noted that between 1819 and 1857, Severn exhibited 53 paintings at the Royal Academy in London.

In 1861 Severn was appointed British Consul in Rome during the ferment over Italian unification.

Although the official position of the British government on " The Roman Question " was neutrality and nonintervention, Severn often took diplomatic action that his superiors viewed as exceeding his mandate as Consul.

Severn died on 3 August 1879 at the age of 85, and was buried in the Protestant Cemetery alongside John Keats.

In 1892 the first significant collection of Severn's papers was published by William Sharp in The Life and Letters of Joseph Severn.

On British rivers such as the River Severn, the situation was improved by the creation of towing path companies in the late 1700s.

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 ).

With the capture of Caratacus, much of southern Britain from the Humber to the Severn was pacified and garrisoned throughout the 50s.

Severn was inducted into the UFC Hall of Fame at UFC 52.

These tribes, including the Angles and Saxons, who later became the English, were unable to make inroads into Wales except possibly along the Severn Valley as far as Llanidloes.

King Edward realised that the Lancastrians were seeking to cross the River Severn into Wales.

The Severn Estuary, which empties into the Bristol Channel, has the second largest tidal range in the world — about, exceeded only by the Bay of Fundy.

Or there may have been an Anglo-Saxon attack deep into British territory in an attempt to reach the Severn estuary and separate the Welsh from the Britons of the southwest.

He named it for the beautiful winding River Wye, noted for its sinuosity, whose source is near that of the Severn, rising almost at the summit of Plinhimmon, a mountain in Wales, it forms the boundary between the shores of Brecon and Radnor in South Wales, ere it enters Herefordshire, England, and thence flowing through this county, Ross and Monmouth, falls into the Severn near Chepstow.

The temple complex at Lydney Park, situated on a steep bluff overlooking the Severn Estuary, is rectangular, measuring 72m by 54m ( 80 ' by 60 '), with a central cella measuring 29m by 49. 5m ( 32½ ' by 55 '), and its north-western end is divided into three chambers 6. 3m deep.

The county is divided into nine townships: Conway, Gaston, Jackson, Lasker, Pleasant Hill, Rich Square, Seaboard, Severn and Woodland.

Gloucester Township, which took its name from the cathedral city of Gloucester on the banks of the River Severn in England, was further subdivided into four smaller townships, and on June 1, 1695, became one of the first New Jersey municipalities to incorporate.

The two Severn crossings are regarded as the main crossing points from England into South Wales.

The original Severn Valley Railway was absorbed into the Great Western Railway in the 1870s, and in 1878 a link line was constructed from Bewdley to Kidderminster.

The bid and the project had to be split into smaller sections, but £ 11. 9 million was awarded in 2006 for phase 1a, which with match funding will restore navigation from ' The Ocean ' at Stonehouse to Wallbridge on the Stroudwater Navigation, and from Wallbridge to Brimscombe Port on the Thames and Severn Canal.

* The Severn catchment, which drains a large area of north and central Wales, as well as much of the West Midlands, and drains ultimately into the Irish Sea via the Bristol Channel.

The South West of England had several east-west cross-country canals, which connected the River Thames to the River Severn and the River Avon, allowing the cities of Bristol and Bath to be connected to London: These were Thames and Severn Canal which linked to the Stroudwater Navigation, the Kennet and Avon Canal and the Wilts and Berks Canal, which linked to these three rivers ; all of these linked into the national canal system via the Oxford Canal and the River Severn ( via the Worcester & Birmingham and Staffordshire & Worcestershire canals ).

Richard Howe entered the navy in the Severn, one of the squadron sent into the south seas with George Anson in 1740.

Locrinus was killed in battle, and Gwendolen threw Estrildis and her daughter, Habren, into the River Severn.

An important aspect of Chepstow's trade was entrepôt trade: bringing larger cargoes into the manageable deep water of the Wye on high tide and breaking down the load for on-shipment in the many trows up the Wye to Hereford past the coin stamping mill at Redbrook, or up the Severn to Gloucester and beyond.

The Bay occupies the sweeping arc of coastline between the wave-cut platform of Jurassic Blue Lias at the northern tip of the Quantock Hills and the cliffs of Carboniferous Dolomites and Limestone at Brean Down which project into the Severn Estuary and provide some degree of protection from the erosive tidal currents.

The Severn River, its outlet stream, was once called ' Rivière de Toronto ' which flows into Georgian Bay's Severn Sound, then called the ' Baie de Toronto '.

The Trent-Severn Waterway connects Georgian Bay to Lake Ontario, running from Port Severn in the southeastern corner of Georgian Bay through Lake Simcoe into Lake Ontario near Trenton.

He formed a council led by Commodore Perry to create a new system for training officers, and turned the old Fort Severn at Annapolis into a new institution which would be designated as the United States Naval Academy in 1851.

Its main rivers are the River Severn ( which flows east into Shropshire ) and the River Dyfi ( which flows west into the Irish Sea ).