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- proper noun An area of
Gloucestershire , between the riversSevern andWye , with a long history ofmining .
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In the fifth year of the succeeding reign of Stephen, by whom the gifts just mentioned were confirmed, the Forest of Dean, that is, its royal quitrents, were granted to Lucy, Milo Fitz-Walter's third daughter, upon her marrying Herbert Fitz-Herbert, the King's chamberlain, and progenitor to the present Earl of Pembroke and Montgomery.
The Forest of Dean An Historical and Descriptive Account 1846
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• The Conservatives have precisely the wrong name: they want to sell off the Forest of Dean (Report, 29 January) and destroy gorgeous Chiltern landscape with a superfluous high-speed rail line (Comment, 24 January).
Letters: Red October 2011
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As the former Forest of Dean district council chairman Bill Hobman says: Mr Cameron should show us the deeds to the Forest.
Johann Hari: David Cameron Is Selling Off All England's Forests -- and Starting to Drill, Baby, Drill Johann Hari 2011
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As the former Forest of Dean district council chairman Bill Hobman says: Mr Cameron should show us the deeds to the Forest.
Johann Hari: David Cameron Is Selling Off All England's Forests -- and Starting to Drill, Baby, Drill Johann Hari 2011
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As the former Forest of Dean district council chairman Bill Hobman says: Mr Cameron should show us the deeds to the Forest.
Johann Hari: David Cameron Is Selling Off All England's Forests -- and Starting to Drill, Baby, Drill Johann Hari 2011
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As the former Forest of Dean district council chairman Bill Hobman says: Mr Cameron should show us the deeds to the Forest.
Johann Hari: David Cameron Is Selling Off All England's Forests -- and Starting to Drill, Baby, Drill Johann Hari 2011
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She was born, the fourth of five children of Edward and his music-loving wife Rose, nee Crook, at the close of the first world war in Coleford, on the edge of the Forest of Dean, not far from Newnham, where Denis's maternal grandfather was the stationmaster, signalman and ticket collector.
Edna Healey obituary Julia Langdon 2010
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As in the New Forest, there is a long history of conflict between the Crown and the native commoners of the Forest of Dean, the foresters.
Wildwood Roger Deakin 2009
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But the coal miners, charcoal-burners and iron-smelters had to live somewhere, and industry was booming in the Forest of Dean.
Wildwood Roger Deakin 2009
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As in the New Forest, there is a long history of conflict between the Crown and the native commoners of the Forest of Dean, the foresters.
Wildwood Roger Deakin 2009
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