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Description: | View of the Old Passage House at Aust, on the banks of the River Severn. Between Beachley and Aust was a well known route across the River Severn for hundreds of years. It was called the Old Passage to distinguish it from the a rival ferry service, the New Passage. Daniel Defoe, who was here in the early 18th century, commented 'There is also a little farther, an ugly, dangerous, and very inconvenient ferry over the Severn, to the mouth of Wye; namely, at Aust; the badness of the weather, and the sorry boats, at which, deterr'd us from crossing there'. | License: | http://www.bl.uk/services/copy/permission.html | Publisher: | F. Jukes | Rights holder: | British Library | Source: | Collect Britain | Creator: | Hassell, J. | Identifier: | http://www.collectbritain.co.uk/personal... | Language: | en-GB | Go to resource |
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