The Vale of Uley.––Forest of Dean.––Ross.––Wilton Castle.––Goodrich Castle.––Courtfield,
Welch Bicknor, Coldwell.––Gleaner's Song.––Coldwell Rocks.––Symmon's Yat.––Great Doward.––New
Wier.––Arthur's Hall.
The British Library holds four manuscripts stemming from Bloomfield’s Wye tour:
Admired by Wordsworth and Southey, called by Clare 'the greatest Pastoral Poet England
ever gave birth too’, Robert Bloomfield was one of the bestselling poets of the nineteenth
century. A labouring-class writer famed for his rural verse, Bloomfield was not only
