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  • Missing persons records for that period pointed to a Lydney resident, Peter Thomas, who had gone missing at exactly that time, and fingerprints confirmed the identification.

    Lords of the flies: the insect detectives 2010

  • I slipped along the far banks under the high woods of the Dean, past the mudflats off Lydney, where the elvers that swim up the Severn each year from the Sargasso have mysteriously diminished recently from hundreds of millions to mere millions, like the sperm count of Western man.

    Wildwood Roger Deakin 2009

  • I slipped along the far banks under the high woods of the Dean, past the mudflats off Lydney, where the elvers that swim up the Severn each year from the Sargasso have mysteriously diminished recently from hundreds of millions to mere millions, like the sperm count of Western man.

    Wildwood Roger Deakin 2009

  • Senecianus and Silvianus are known from a curse tablet deposited at the Lydney temple, in which Silvianus curses Senecianus for the loss of a valuable ring.

    Archive 2008-07-01 Carla 2008

  • Senecianus and Silvianus are known from a curse tablet deposited at the Lydney temple, in which Silvianus curses Senecianus for the loss of a valuable ring.

    Lord of Silver, by Alan Fisk. Book review Carla 2008

  • E.g. the big pilgrimage-type sites at Lydney and Uley went out of use around the turn of 4th/5th C and weren't turned into Christian sites, and the big temple at Colchester was turned into the foundations of the later medieval castle.

    November recipe: Cinnamon apple pudding with hot fudge sauce Carla 2007

  • Available from the author: 5 Berkeley Crescent, Lydney, Gloucestershire, England, GL15 5SH

    Flower of Scotland 1960

  • Reading, or of the Severn from Deerhurst to Lydney, or of the Hudson from New York to Tarrytown.

    The Old Front Line John Masefield 1922

  • Dilke, and who, at Lydney, when Sir Charles finally accepted their invitation, congratulated the Forest of Dean on having secured the services of 'one who was not only a political leader, but a real Labour leader.'

    The Life of the Rt. Hon. Sir Charles W. Dilke, Volume 2 Stephen Lucius Gwynn 1907

  • Parliament at a meeting held at Lydney, which was extraordinarily successful and unanimous. '

    The Life of the Rt. Hon. Sir Charles W. Dilke, Volume 2 Stephen Lucius Gwynn 1907

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