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Bristol Channel

Was it a spring tide in 1607? Was it a storm? No, it was a tsunami! Or was it….?

Jan 20, 2021

anniversaries, buildings, Science

books, Bristol Channel, calendars, Cardigan, Devon, floods, Glamorgan, Gloucestershire, Gwent, Lord Herbert, parish registers, River Severn, Rose Hewlett, Somerset, tsunamis

“….But the yeere 1606, the fourth of King James, the ryver of Severn rose upon a sodeyn Tuesday mornyng the 20 of January beyng the full pryme day and hyghest tyde after the change of the moone by reason of a myghty strong western wynde….” John Paul, Vicar of Almondsbury In ‘A True Report of…
Just WHY did Buckingham think he could cross the flooded Severn….?

Oct 18, 2017

anniversaries, travel

Brecon, Bristol Channel, Buckingham rebellion, executions, flooding, Forest of Dean, Gloucester, Henry of Buckingham, John Morton, Richard III, River Severn, River Usk, Salisbury, Shrewsbury, Tewkesbury, Upton-on-Severn, Vaughans

On this date, St Luke’s Day, 18th October, in 1483, apparently egged on by that notorious Lancastrian plotter, John Morton, Bishop of Ely, Henry Stafford, 2nd Duke of Buckingham unfurled his banners in rebellion against his cousin, King Richard III. Morton was supposedly Buckingham’s prisoner, handed over to him by Richard for safe keeping. Safe…