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It is not very ancient. It had a vaulted ground floor, having the 

 •chief room or hall above it. We also examined the church of 

 All Saints, which seems to have been originally Early English, with 

 a, Decorated chancel, the whole much altered by the insertion of late 

 Perpendicular windows. There are very slight remains of the old 

 •church of St. Mary. ... In the early part of our walk we noticed 

 many of the same plants as are foiind at Garalingay, such as Tees- 

 dalia, Sisymbrium thalianum, Arenaria tenuifolia, Vicia lathyrdides. 



May 16. Henslow's party to Thetford. I started with a party 

 of eighteen and reached Thetford an hour sooner than Henslow, who 

 •came from Hitcham. In that interval we visited the Danish fort, 

 and looked at the banks of the Thet river, near to the town, on the 

 Norwich road. We then went up the Elvedon road, and found 

 Veronica triphyllos in the allotment grounds and also beyond them on 

 the right hand side of the road. Turning to the right we examined 

 the plantations, and crossed the Warren until we arrived at the river 

 Ouse, going back along it, and the road to the town. My party had 

 here left Henslow's party behind, and went up the Bury road as far 

 ^s Place Farm, returning by a footpath between the two rivers. 

 Back by train to Cambridge. 



May 27. Went to London to a meeting of the Council of the 

 British Association of Science, and returned in the evening. 



May 30. Hort and I went to Denver to spend a few days with 

 W. H. Stokes, the new rector. Went to Denver Sluice, crossed the 

 old Bedford river, and walked up the south side of Well Creek as 

 far as the first lane in Nordelph, which we followed to its end, and 

 then by footpath to the Bedford river bank, returning along it. 

 Between the above mentioned lane and a windmill we saw the traces 

 •of the Fen road of the Romans, in the form of a ridge crossing a 

 ploughed field. In the ridge there is plenty of flint gravel, none of 

 which is to be found elsewhere within a long distance. A middle 

 aged labourer in the field told us that his grandfather had told him 

 ■of a gravel road having been found on the line. In Well Creek we 

 saw Fotaviogeton praelongus, and in the ditch by the footpath beyond 

 ■the above-mentioned lane Potamogeton flabellatus. In the afternoon 

 went along the lanes to Stone Cross (where there is the socket of a 

 •cross remaining), where I suppose that the Fen Road and Akeman 

 •Street crossed each other. The former seems to have followed the 

 lane westwards from the cross, and may apparently be traced in the 

 field leading towards Bexwell. 



May 31. Drove through Fordham, Hilgay, to Southery, and 

 went down to the fen beyond Little London. The water of the late 

 memorable flood had just left this part of the fen, but still continued 

 upon the lower parts beyond. Vegetation was just commencing on 

 the land. On the return went to the entrance to Wood Hall, and 

 walked along the lane which goes round the north-east angle of 



