LYDNEY, (Gloucestershire) upon the Severn, near Newenham, is a large p. with several hamlets and manors; two of which, named Lydney, formerly bel. to the Beauchamps and Nevils Earls of Warwick, and the Talbots Earls of Shrewsbury. Being afterwards in the crown, they were granted to Sir Tho. Seymour; who forfeiting them by his attainder, Q. Eliz. granted them to Sir William Winter, vice-admiral of England, for his defence of it against the Spanish Armada. In that remarkable year 1588, he began a stately house here, called White-Cross, which his posterity have inhabited ever since. His grandson, Sir John Winter, who was engaged for K. Cha. I. through the whole civil wars, being once hard pressed by the rebels close at his heels, miraculously saved his life, by leaping into the r from the rocks of Tydenham; which place to this day bears ths name of Winter's-Leap. Here is an almsh. and a seat of Ben. Bathurst, Esq;.