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Lancaut ((ウェールズ語:Llan Cewydd)) is a deserted village in Gloucestershire, England, located alongside the River Wye, around two miles north of Chepstow. It occupies a narrow-necked promontory formed by a curve of the river, which acts as the border between England and Wales. Little remains of the village today, except for the roofless church of St. James. == History == The peninsula forms a strong natural defensive position and the ramparts of an Iron Age fort, known as ''Spital Meend'', across this neck may still be identified today. The site of the fort looks both north and south up and down the Wye, as well as eastwards towards the Severn estuary. The name of Lancaut (historically, sometimes also spelled Llancourt)〔( The English Cyclopaedia, 1867 )〕 is an anglicisation of the (ウェールズ語:Llan Cewydd), or 'Church of Saint Cewydd', an obscure Welsh saint of the 6th century. Offa's Dyke, which was constructed in the late 8th century to define the area controlled by the Anglo-Saxon kingdom of Mercia and to deter incursions by the Welsh from the west, passed to the east of Lancaut, and incorporated part of the defences of the Spital Meend hillfort. The peninsula and parish of Lancaut, though on the eastern bank of the river, remained under Welsh control until the 10th century;〔( C. R. Elrington et al., Victoria County History, ''A History of the County of Gloucester: Volume 10: Westbury and Whitstone Hundreds'', 1972, pp.50-72 )〕 by 956 it had been incorporated within the English king's manor of Tidenham.〔 The village was never large, but in 1306 contained 10 tenant households, and in 1551 had 19 adults.〔 By 1750 the village had only two inhabited houses,〔 and in 1848 the parish was recorded as having a mere 16 inhabitants. The civil parish was merged with Tidenham in 1935.〔 Today there is little remaining of the village except for a still-working farm. In early 1645, during the English Civil War, the local Royalist leader Sir John Wintour (or Winter) marched forces from Lydney to Lancaut in an attempt to fortify a ford across the Wye, but was defeated and forced to escape by boat. This gave rise to the local legend that he had leapt with his horse down the cliffs immediately below Lancaut to safety, the cliffs later becoming known as Wintour's Leap.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Lancaut」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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