View of the Wye from Lover's Leap:: OS grid ST5296 :: Geograph British Isles

ST5296 : View of the Wye from Lover's Leap

near to St Arvans, Monmouthshire/Sir Fynwy, Great Britain

View of the Wye from Lover's Leap

"A Guide to the Stranger Visiting the Town of Chepstow...", published in 1827, has this to say: "Lover's Leap, so called from the Leucadian Promontory [Link

] whence despairing Lovers (and among them Sappho) precipitated themselves. It is the edge of a perpendicular cliff, overlooking a tremendous abyss, clothed with underwood, which at the bottom looks as fine as a spider's web, and is usually enveloped in mist. This spot is inclosed with iron rails and you look instantaneously down one hundred and eighty feet! - a tremendous and sublime picture".

One wonders if the iron railings seen in the photograph are the same ones mentioned in 1827!

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2007

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Grid Square: ST5296, 13 images (more nearby)
Photographer: Roy Parkhouse (find more nearby)
Image classification: Geograph
Date Taken: Wednesday, 13 June, 2007 (more nearby)
Submitted: Wednesday, 13 June, 2007
Category: Promontory (more nearby)
Subject Location: OSGB36: ST 523 967 [100m precision]
WGS84: 51:40.0224N 2:41.4660W
Photographer Location: OSGB36: ST 523 967
View Direction: Northeast (about 45 degrees)