If you’d like to know more about anything related to Gilpin 2020, here’s a comprehensive reading list courtesy of local historian, Heather Hurley. Many of these publications are, however, out of print:
Andrews M: In Search of the Picturesque 1989
Baker S: Camping on the Wye 1892
Black’s Guide to the Wye 1916
Bradley A: Wye 1910
Coxe W: An Historical Tour 1801
Crow A: Bridges on the River Wye 1995
Daniels S & Watkins C: The Picturesque Landscape 1994
Farr G: Chepstow Ships 1954
Farrant A: Rowing Holiday by Canal in 1873
Fosbroke TD: Wye Tour 1823
Fletcher H: Portrait of the Wye Valley 1968
Gibbings R: Coming down the Wye 1943
Gilpin W: Observations on the River Wye 1782
Hall S & A: South Wales, the Wye and the Coast 1861
Hayman R: Wye 2016
Heath C: Excursion down the Wye 1799
Heath Charles: Monmouth 1804
Heath Charles: Excursion Down the Wye 1828
Hughes P & Hurley H: The Story of Ross 2009
Hurley H: Herefordshire’s River Trade 2013
Hurley H: Landscape Origins of the Wye Valley 2008
Hurley, H, Ross-on-Wye 2002
Hurley H & J: The Wye Valley Walk 1994
Hurley J: In Search of John Kyrle 2013
Ireland, S, River Wye 1797
Jeremiah, J, The River Wye 2004
Kissack Keith: Monmouth 1975
Kissack, K, The River Wye 1978
Lipscomb, G, Journey into South Wales 1799
Lloyd, J, ed., History and Navigation of the Rivers Wye & Lugg 1873
Mason, E, Wye Valley 1987
Mitchell, J, The Wye Tour 2010
Peterkin, S, Landscapes of the Wye Tour
Potts, W, Roaming Down the Wye 19
Price, J, City of Hereford 1796
Rainsbury, A, Chepstow and the River Wye 1989
Ritchie, L, The Wye 1841
Roscoe, T, Wanderings and Excursions in South Wales 1844
Sale, R, Wye Valley 1984
Stockinger, V, R, The Rivers Wye and Lugg Navigation 1996
Strong, George, Handbook to Ross and Archenfield 1863
Tisdall, J, Joshua Cristall 1996
Waters, I, About Chepstow 1952
Waters, I, Piercefield on the banks of the Wye 1977
Whitehead, D & Shoesmith, R, James Wathen’s Herefordshire 1994
Williams, H, 1982, The Diary of a Rowing Tour in 1875
Willett, M, Excursion from the Source of the Wye 1810 Wye Valley AONB. Overlooking the Wye 2013