Red Lion
- In existence as a pub in 1774 and was a centre for sporting activity ‐ cock fighting and boxing.
- Several licensees continued to farm as well as running the pub.
Canonbridge
Was a wharf from which large quantities of bark and timber, including prime naval timber, were shipped down the River Wye to Chepstow from estates such as Whitehouse near Peterchurch. Smaller timber was moved on barges while larger logs were tied together to form rafts and floated down. The timber was brought to Madley on heavy wagons with iron-bound wheels pulled by as many as twelve horses which led to bitter complaints from locals about the resulting potholes and damage done to their roads.
Footpaths, Roads and Tracks
Most of the paths and tracks you are walking, cycling (or roads: driving) along are very old indeed. If a footpath joins a road then originally there were three tracks that joined at this point. Why? What was there for people to come from different directions so often as to form a distinct track in the landscape. Also look for curves in the road. What did the road have to avoid? At Rowlestone (see below) it was an Iron Age enclosure whose ramparts were still visible. A deep road or path, below the level of the fields on either side, usually shows a very ancient way, worn down by all those feet that came before you...
You could also try some hedge dating ‐ see last section.
Tyberton
- From an Old English name + OE tun, a fenced complex of buildings, homestead or estate.
- Possibly, but less likely, to be from Welsh ty, house as the complete name is Tyber or similar.
Church: St. Mary
- The present Church, built in brick in 1719–21, replaced a Norman church. Designed by John Wood for William Brydges, it stood in the grounds of Tyberton Court which was demolished in 1952.
- It has fine Jacobean-style woodwork.
- In the 19th century the Tyberton estate passed by marriage to the wealthy Lee Warner family of Walsingham Abbey in Norfolk. In 1861 the household at Tyberton consisted of Daniel Lee Warner, his wife and 6 children and 16 servants ranging from the butler to the 13 year old page.
Compline
- Compline, the final Christian Church Service of the day, at about 7 p.m., for Benedictine monks.
- Prayers were offered at 7 fixed, canonical, times during the day and once in the night. New research shows that having two periods of sleep was normal for thousands of years for everyone: first sleep / the watch / morning sleep. The 'watch', usually about midnight to c. 2 am, is recorded as being used for cooking, cleaning, working, sex, talking, study, anything until one was tired and went back to sleep. The Church followed normal practice in having this break, for a Service, in the night. Rembrandt's painting 'The Night Watch' uses the term. Sleeping patterns altered with The Industrial Revolution when gas, and then electric, light became prevalent and people did not go to bed at sunset.
