Uckinghall Ferry, Ripple

by H W Gwilliam

This was the last of the Severn Ferries in Worcestershire. In the hamlet of Uckinghall. the battered stump of a medieval wayside cross still stands to direct travellers to the river crossing here. The crossing is at a place called the Barley House. a corruption of Burgelge in the Domesday Book, where there was once a stronghold commanding the passage over the Severn.

Copyright © H W Gwilliam 1982



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