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format:  'Woolaston: Introduction', A History of the County of
Gloucester: Volume 10: Westbury and Whitstone Hundreds (1972),
pp. 102-106. URL: http://british-
history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=15773 Date accessed: 23 October
2014.   (Min 3 characters)    WOOLASTON is a parish of scattered
hamlets lying midway between Lydney and Chepstow. Roughly
rectangular in shape, it rises from the River Severn to the high
ground of Tidenham Chase. The account printed here relates to
the area that until 1882 formed the parish, comprising 3,303 a.
excluding river foreshore and tidal water. (fn. 1) The area
included Madgett, a detached piece of cultivated land on
Tidenham Chase, and a long, narrow neck of land extending to the
steep valley of the River Wye opposite Tintern Abbey. In 1882
the detached portion of the parish at Madgett, comprising 308
a., was transferred to Tidenham. (fn. 2) In 1935 the strip of l