Timewatch investigates the massive wave that devastated the counties
of the Bristol Channel in January 1607. Experts now believe that the
wave was not simply a freak storm, but a tsunami. [AD] "
BBC - BBC TWO - Listings: "
9:00 pm today
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GOLDCLIFF is a parish on the Bristol channel, 3 miles south from
Llanwern station on the South Wales section of the Great Western
railway, 149� from London, and 6 south-east from Newport, in the
Southern division of the county, Lower division of Caldicot hundred,
petty sessional division of Christchurch, union and county court
district of Newport, rural deanery of Caerleon, archdeaconry of
Monmouth and diocese of Llandaff.
A high .sea wall, erected to prevent the irruption of the tide, skirts
one side of the parish. The church of St. Mary Magdalene is an ancient
building of stone in the Early Englsh style, consisting of chancel,
nave, south porch, and an embattled western tower containing one bell.
In .the chancel there is a mural brass thus inscribed :-
"On the 20th day of January, 1606, even as it came to pass, it
pleased God the flood did flow to the edge of this same brass,
and in this parish there was lost ?5,000 in stock &c.
besides 22 people was in this parish drowned."
Goldcliffe: John Wilkins of Pill Row and William Tap,
Churchwardens, 1609
it reached fromthe Severn to St Woolos churhc
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