Golden Valley (Herefordshire)

[1] A similar situation occurred with the Douro river in Iberia (Spain and Portugal) where the Romance languages adopted the original Celtic name and changed the meaning to the similar-sounding precious metal.

Arthur's Stone, Herefordshire,[2] located just outside the village of Dorstone, is a chamber tomb from the Neolithic Period, and dates from some time between 3700 and 2700 BC.

Bacton Church also has rare 1914–1918, World War I, medal ribbons depicted in stone on several memorial wall plaques.

The diaries of Francis Kilvert extol the beauty of the local landscape of English river valleys sheltered by the Black Mountains between Hay on Wye and Hereford and it is Bredwardine where he is buried.

[4] The Golden Valley Railway Company opened a line from Pontrilas to Dorstone in 1881 and an extension to Hay-on-Wye in 1889, but a plan to link to Monmouth was never realised.

During 2008 the Golden Valley saw the construction of the National Grid's 196 km natural gas pipeline from Felindre in Swansea to Tirley in Gloucestershire.

View down the Golden Valley from Old Hill Wood, with Peterchurch in the middle distance.
Arthur's Stone, Herefordshire
Dore Abbey
Notice of duties of Churchwardens in English and Welsh, in St Margaret's Church, Herefordshire