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jan 1, 1540 - Geographer John Leland visits the Forest

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Leland was commissioned by Henry VIII to write a topography of Britain. He wrote that in the Forest of Dean ‘The ground is fruitful of iron mines, and divers forges be there to make iron’

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jan 1, 1540
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~ 486 years ago