Symonds Yat, Forest of Dean, Herefordshire -general view- Harvey Barton postcard

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• Picture / Image:  Gneeral View of Symonds Yat, Herefordshire / Gloucestershire near Monmouthshire
• Publisher:  Harvey Barton
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Text from the free encyclopedia WIKIPEDIA may appear below to give a little background information (internal links may not  work) :

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Symonds Yat is a village in the Forest of Dean and a popular tourist destination, straddling the River Wye and the borders of the English counties of Herefordshire and Gloucestershire, it is within a few miles of the Welsh border. The name is said to come from Robert Symonds, a 17th century sheriff of Herefordshire and ""yat"" as an old word for a gate or pass.^[1]

The Yat Gorge was mined for iron ore and remains of a smelting works are located down stream of the Symonds Yat Rapids.^[2] The ironworks at New Weir date from the 1590s and were operated by the White family until 1753, George White leased the site to John Partridge, an ironmonger from Ross on Wye. Partridge combined the ironworks at New Weir with his forge at Lydbrook which smelted pig iron from his furnace at Bishopswood.^[3] The works closed when the lease ran out in 1798 and the adjacent weir and lock buildings were demolished and the lock filled in 1814.^[3]

In April 2009 Herefordshire Archaeology excavated New Weir Iron Works at Symonds Yat West to establish how the iron works functioned between the start of smelting in and the decline of the works in the 1800s. It was found that the works included a 'slitting mill', for making wire nails and a rolling mill powered by water wheels.^[4]

The Old Court Hotel in Symonds Yat West, which was built in the 16th century,^[5] was the ancestral home of the Gwillim family and was home to John Graves Simcoe, who was governor and one of the founding fathers of Upper Canada.^[6]

type=real photographic (rp)

theme=topographical: british

sub-theme=england

county/ country=herefordshire

number of items=single

period=1945 - present

postage condition=unposted