Gatcombe

Except to shop, of course, and maybe catch a horse show at Gatcombe Park.

To Catch a Prince Gillian McKnight 2005

Except to shop, of course, and maybe catch a horse show at Gatcombe Park.

To Catch a Prince Gillian McKnight 2005

Across on the Gatcombe side were the steep sandstone cliffs, storm-washed and clean, and topped with primeval forest.

Sea-Dogs All! A Tale of Forest and Sea Tom Bevan

At about the hour when Johnnie Morgan stepped out over his threshold to go down to the admiral at Gatcombe, Andrew Windybank stole like a thief from the Tower and went through by-paths towards Westbury-on-Severn, a fishing hamlet that lay a little farther up-stream than Newnham.

Sea-Dogs All! A Tale of Forest and Sea Tom Bevan

The admiral was no longer at Gatcombe, but had gone to London, and thence to Plymouth.

Sea-Dogs All! A Tale of Forest and Sea Tom Bevan

"True, admiral," answered a Gatcombe pilot; "and I trow we shall find it trying work looking for black men on a black night."

Sea-Dogs All! A Tale of Forest and Sea Tom Bevan

Johnnie Morgan had tramped up from Bristol to Berkeley, and now stood on the Severn bank at the eastern end of the ferry to Gatcombe and the snug ingle-corner of the old farmhouse.

Sea-Dogs All! A Tale of Forest and Sea Tom Bevan

Gatcombe Pill leapt and plunged muddily between its high, red banks, and the yellow tide surged up the opening and held back the seething waters like a dam.

Sea-Dogs All! A Tale of Forest and Sea Tom Bevan

The river-path along the Severn shore at Gatcombe was almost knee-deep with turbid water, and only a post here and there showed where river ordinarily ended and firm land began.

Sea-Dogs All! A Tale of Forest and Sea Tom Bevan

On the high bank above Gatcombe, one other man, half hidden by the thick trees, braved the fury of the storm.

Sea-Dogs All! A Tale of Forest and Sea Tom Bevan