Chronicle of Geoffrey le Baker of Swinbroke
Baker was a secular clerk from Swinbroke, now Swinbrook, an Oxfordshire village two miles east of Burford. His Chronicle describes the events of the period 1303-1356: Gaveston, Bannockburn, Boroughbridge, the murder of King Edward II, the Scottish Wars, Sluys, Crécy, the Black Death, Winchelsea and Poitiers. To quote Herbert Bruce 'it possesses a vigorous and characteristic style, and its value for particular events between 1303 and 1356 has been recognised by its editor and by subsequent writers'. The book provides remarkable detail about the events it describes. Baker's text has been augmented with hundreds of notes, including extracts from other contemporary chronicles, such as the Annales Londonienses, Annales Paulini, Murimuth, Lanercost, Avesbury, Guisborough and Froissart to enrich the reader's understanding. The translation takes as its source the 'Chronicon Galfridi le Baker de Swynebroke' published in 1889, edited by Edward Maunde Thompson.
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River Teme is in River Severn.
On 20th February 1640 Essex Devereux (age 25) drowned when attempting to cross the River Teme with a friend. He was buried at St Edburga's Church, Leigh [Map].
The River Teme rises around three miles south of Dolfor [Map] in Powys. For much of its upper course it forms the border between England and Wales. It passes through, or near, Felindre, Radnoshire [Map], Knighton, Radnorshire [Map], Leintwardine, Herefordshire [Map], Bromfield, Shropshire [Map], Ludlow, Shropshire [Map], Tenbury Wells, Worcestershire [Map], Stanford Bridge, Worcestershire [Map], Shelsey Beauchamp, Worcestershire [Map], Leigh, Worcestershire [Map] and Bransford, Worcestershire [Map] after which it joins the River Severn around 3 km south of Worcester, Worcestershire [Map].
Leintwardine Bridge, Herefordshire [Map] crosses the River Teme just below its confluence with the River Clun. Originally the crossing point of a Roman Road known locally as Watling Street; a spur or extension of the Welsh Border Road which terminated at Wroxeter, Shropshire [Map] around thirty-five kilometres north of Leintwardine, Herefordshire [Map] and which may have connected Wroxeter to Usk, Monmouthshire [Map]. The current bridge is around 1850 widened by twelve feet in 1930.
The River Clun rises near Anchor, Shropshire [Map], 400m from the England and Wales border, after which it travels past Hall in the Forest, Clun [Map], Clun Castle [Map] and NO IMAGE [Map] before joining the River Teme at Leintwardine, Herefordshire [Map].
The River Corve rises near Bourton [Map] after which is flows south-west past Brockton, Shropshire [Map], Shipton, Shropshire [Map], Hungerford, Shropshire [Map], Culmington, Shropshire [Map]and Stanton Lacy, Shropshire [Map] joining the River Teme at Ludlow, Shropshire [Map].
The River Onny rise in the Shropshire Hills it is formed by the River West Onny and River East Onny which converge 500m south of Hardwick, Shropshire [Map]. Thereafter the River Onny passes Cravens Arms, Shropshire [Map] and Stokesay Castle, Shropshire [Map] before joining the River Teme at Bromfield, Shropshire [Map].