FRAMPTON UPON SEVERN, (Gloucestershire) bet. Berkley and Newnham, is a p. 8 m. in com. bounded with the Severn on the W.
the Stroud on the N. and Berkley river on the S. This manor was long enjoyed by the Cliffords, and had once both Mts. and
Fairs. At length it came, by the heiresses, to Rob. Fitz-Pain; then to the Chediocks; and then to the Arundels, who sold
it to Humph. Hooke, ald. of Bristol; in whose posterity it very lately remained. The tide comes up in a strait line, for 4
m. in length westward, with such rapidity, that, on its reaching the foot of a hill on the left side of the forest of
Dean, and turning round to the N. it gathers into a head, that looks like a high weir across the r. bearing every thing
before it, till it comes to Newnham's Nob, a natural bulwark; which turns the torrent so to the E. that when it reaches
the N. of Frampton, the land bet. the 2 parts of the r. is but 1 m. broad. The E. of Berkley has lately finished a great
bulwark near this place, called Hock-Crib, which is to enforce the Severn by Art's-Point into its former channel. Here is
that called Frying-Pan Fair on Feb. 3.