Two thirds of the page are taken up with the following notes in pen and ink. Turner’s pencil annotations are indicated in italics. The last passage, headed ‘Monmouth’, is in pen and brown ink in Turner’s hand, with further pencil annotations:
To Monmouth by Water 22 Miles
very fine Picturesque Country
X To Chepstow by Water 24 Miles
Tintern Abbey, The Rock Woods of Piercefield, Chepstow Castle.
To Nuneham Passage House 16 Miles
Fine Views of the River Severn – very curious to see the Bore of Head of the
Tide come in, when the Wind is favourable
To Newport 14 Miles
To Berkley Castle 2 Miles worth visiting inhabited by Ld Berkley
To Thornbury 8 Miles
Curious Gothic Architecture in this Town
To Bristol 10 Miles
To Bath 13 Miles X <The> Places mark’d
To Salisbury 38 Miles thus have good Inns
Monmouth.
Views up the Wye from Wye-Bridge to New=Wier -
and Which=Church -- The Castle [caret: walls] and Castle Bridge
Monnow and Wye Bridges. The Iron Works –
Kings Arms Inn X
This is the conclusion of an itinerary of a South Welsh tour, beginning on the inside of the front cover (
D40553) and continuing on the recto and verso of the preceding flyleaf (
D40554,
D40555).
