Rhodes, J. F. (2007). The Severn flood-plain at Gloucester in the medieval and early modern periods. Trans Bristol Gloucestershire Archaeol Soc 124. Vol 124, pp. 9-36.
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The Severn flood-plain at Gloucester in the medieval and early modern periods | |||||||||||||||||
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Trans Bristol Gloucestershire Archaeol Soc 124 | |||||||||||||||||
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Transactions of the Bristol & Gloucestershire Archaeological Society | |||||||||||||||||
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124 | |||||||||||||||||
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9 - 36 | |||||||||||||||||
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The level of the Severnside plain at Gloucester has risen continuously since Roman times. It was managed as meadowland by the eighth century. By the twelfth century the meadows east of the Old Severn (the original watercourse) had been divided into strips in multiple ownership. Meadows on the west bank generally belonged to Gloucester Abbey and St. Oswald's Priory, but the town's burgesses had common pasture there (a subject of dispute, but not of rioting, in 1513), and Castle Mead became Crown property in 1265. Installations on the river included short-lived mills, four fish-weirs and the Common Quay, which was relocated in the thirteenth or fourteenth century. A `long bridge' or causeway across the plain existed in 1086 and was linked to the borough in the following century by Westgate Bridge and Foreign Bridge. About 1485 the west channel of the Severn broke through the causeway and necessitated further bridges at Over and, upstream, at Maisemore. They (like the centre of Westgate Bridge) had timber spans until the eighteenth century. | |||||||||||||||||
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2007 | |||||||||||||||||
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7680900197672 | |||||||||||||||||
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04 Jun 2007 |
