A local inhabitant had told the Marchers about a ford across the Irfon two miles downstream near its confluence with the River Wye, and they sent most of their archers across it to attack the Welsh in the flank.
It had an operational area defined along its Eastern boundary by the catchments of the River Dee and the River Wye.
A pair took up residence on farmland adjacent to the River Wye, near Hampton Bishop, Herefordshire in summer 2005; by mid-July the adults were bringing insect food to the riverbank nest-hole confirming that eggs had hatched.
Hind served with the British SAS during the 1960s, he was awarded the Queen's Commendation for Bravery for rescuing a young child from the River Wye in Hereford.
The Romantic poet William Wordsworth includes an apostrophe to the Wye in his famous poem "Lines Written a Few Miles Above Tintern Abbey" published 1798 in Lyrical Ballads
The church stands in an isolated position at the end of a lane in a bend of the River Wye.
There is also evidence of a preference for non-Christian devotion in parts of Britain, such as in the upper regions of the Severn Estuary in the 4th century, from the Forest of Dean east of the River Wye continuously around the coast of the estuary, up to and including Somerset.
The Severn Quay development includes the transformation of the town's neglected riverbank by creating landscaped gardens, a promenade and lookout deck over the River Wye.
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Bredwardine Castle was sited in the village of Bredwardine in Herefordshire, England beside the River Wye.
The south western area between the River Wye and the Kinder Scout was relatively open country, which was enclosed by a low wall, sufficient to keep out cattle and sheep but allow the deer to roam.
The Gloucester Harbour Trustees are the Competent Harbour Authority (CHA) for the tidal part of the River Severn from the Gloucester weirs (Llanthony & Maisemore) down to just below the Second Severn Crossing, on the Welsh side of the Severn Estuary (north of Denny Island) from the Second Severn Crossing as far as Goldcliff, and on the River Wye up to its tidal limit (Bigsweir).
The Monnow itself is a tributary which flows into the River Wye at Monmouth.
Later King Offa of Mercia built Offa's Dyke from the mouth of the River Wye near Chepstow to Chester and local remains can still be seen in the nearby Hudnalls Wood.
It was built in 1876 during the construction of the line on the Monmouthshire side of the River Wye at Bigsweir, and was intended to serve the nearby villages of St Briavels across the river in the Forest of Dean and Llandogo which is further down the Wye Valley.
He and Windsor Sandys (probably his son rather than his great nephew) improved the River Wye up to Mordiford (the confluence of the River Lugg), partly using finance raised for the purpose during the Interregnum, but this evidently did not pay its expenses and the river was eventually surrendered to the county.
The route has now been extended to start or finish in Coed Hafren having passed within viewing distance of the source of the river Wye on Plynlimon mountain near Aberystwyth, a total of 136miles.