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The Wye is also half English from Monmouth until it meets the River Severn at Chepstow.
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Monmouth is located in an area of Devonian old red sandstone, at the point where the River Wye is joined by its tributary, the River Monnow, and immediately north of the point at which the smaller River Trothy flows into the Wye from the west.
The town centre itself is sited on a low-lying spur between the floodplains of the Wye and Monnow, and has frequently suffered from severe flooding.
The area is also attractive to walkers, with both the Offa's Dyke Path, a long distance footpath beginning in Chepstow and finishing in North Wales, and the Wye Valley Walk passing through the town.
If this is the origin it suggests that Hereford was a place where a body of armed men forded or crossed the Wye.
The Hereford Rowing Club ( along with the Kayak Club ) uses the River Wye ; it is a popular club with a strong junior group.
One of his Enigma Variations was inspired by a bulldog named Dan falling into the River Wye at Hereford, and the dog is similarly honoured with a wooden statue beside the river.
* Wye Island by Boyd Gibbons is a book about a development that James Rouse planned but never built on the Eastern Shore of Maryland.
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.
In Neil Gaiman's book Don't Panic: The Official Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy Companion it is pointed out that essentially the same idea was used by the English humourist Paul Jennings in an article Ware, Wye, Watford, published in the late 1950s.
There are 35 AONBs in England, four in Wales, one ( Wye Valley ) that is in both England and Wales and nine in Northern Ireland.
In addition to the aforementioned, Riverside is home to Klein's Supermarket, now known as Shop Rite, the sole grocery store ; plus Hair Cuttery, Riverside Pizzeria, Riverside Liquors, China Moon Chinese restaurant, Wye Knot Crabs, Bliss Coffee & Wine Bar, H & R Block, Rite-Aid, Subway and, in the summer, a snowball stand.
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William Fuller who held office as Monmouth's constable for over twenty years in the early to mid 19th century, also served as Inspector of Nuisances, Chief of the Fire Brigade, Inspector of Weights and Measures, Clerk of the Market, and Conservator of the Wye.
The town was also an important river port, with warehouses and wharves along the Wye later removed for the building of the A40 relief road.
Symonds Yat West also has visitor attractions including a maze built in 1977 to commemorate the Silver Jubilee of Queen Elizabeth II, and the Wye Valley Butterfly Zoo.
The wyvern ( and its ' cousin ' the four-legged dragon ) is a frequent heraldic device on British coats of arms and flags, and a fairly popular commercial logo or mascot as well, especially in Wales and what was once the West Country Kingdom of Wessex, but also farther afield in Herefordshire and Worcestershire, as the rivers Wye and Severn run through Hereford and Worcester respectively.
The port of Chepstow became noted in the Middle Ages for its imports of wine, and also became a major centre for the export of timber and bark, from nearby woodland in the Wye valley and Forest of Dean.
The railway bridge also known as " The Great Tubular Bridge " spanning the river Wye between Chepstow and Sedbury was designed by Isambard Kingdom Brunel in 1852 as part of the G. W. R, but the original structure was replaced in the 1960s.
Until 1959, passenger trains also operated up the Wye Valley Railway to Monmouth – this service ceased owing to heavy financial losses.
The name Wyvern was also suggested, combining the names of the rivers that run through the two cities: the River Wye through Hereford, and the River Severn through Worcester.
In addition to Rhymney, the poem also refers to the bells of Merthyr, Rhondda, Blaina, Caerphilly, Neath, Brecon, Swansea, Newport, Cardiff and the Wye Valley.
With this shift in emphasis, there also followed the closure of several educational and research organisations as for example the internationally renowned Wye College.
Next to the site of the tree, and also maintained as part Wye Oak State Park, is a one-room brick schoolhouse hailing from the colonial period.
The parish also contains a piece of common land, currently registered as unowned under the Commons Act 2006, at Welsh Newton Common ; a hill ( and hamlet ) overlooking the Wye Valley.
John the younger son became Lord of the manor of Corsham in Wiltshire and also later Lord of Glasbury on Wye.
He also developed viewpoints along the clifftop above the River Wye, and opened the park up to visitors.
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