Newnham
Newnham or Newnham on Severn is a village in west Gloucestershire, England. It depends on the Royal Woodland of Dean, on the west financial institution of the River Severn, approximately 10 miles south-west of Gloucester and also 3 miles southeast of Cinderford. It is on the A48 road between Gloucester as well as Chepstow, Monmouthshire, Wales. The village has a parish council. A parish church was established in the 14th century (although there had actually been a church of simplicity because 1018), and also in 1366 a brand-new church structure was improved the high ground of the village as the old one encountered erosion from the river. The brand-new building has itself been harmed by a gunpowder explosion in 1644 throughout the English Civil War and a fire in 1881, but is still in use. As a result of Newnham's location on the Severn, the Old Romans constructed three roads via the location, where they forded the river. The Anglo-Saxons developed a long-term negotiation, the Normans developed a motte-and-bailey fortification for defence, and in middle ages times it ended up being a major port with web links around Great Britain as well as Ireland. In 1171, Henry II of England presented an intrusion of Ireland from Newnham. One account asserted that he set sail with 400 ships as well as 5,000 guys, which recommends its significance as a port. For a time Newnham was one of the most successful Gloucestershire town west of the Severn. Its function as a port and trading hub decreased, nonetheless, quickly with the 1827 opening of the Gloucester and also Sharpness Canal. In 1810, a very early attempt at a Severn tunnel began building simply southern of Newnham. Work was abandoned after flooding in 1812. The civil parish belongs to Newnham and also Westbury electoral ward. This ward starts in the north at Westbury-on-Severn and afterwards adheres to the River Severn to Newnham. The total population of the ward taken at the 2011 census was 3,088.