208 FIELD MEETINGS. 
Dacre of the north. In the further course of the drive (extend- 
ing to about eight miles in all) several pleasant and quaint- 
looking little villages were passed, and some farmhouses, at one 
of which a flock of white turkeys was observed. Burgh-by- 
Sands, the objective of the journey, is a long village, bright with 
flower gardens, with an air of ease and comfort, and a pleasant 
flavour of the antique in its architecture. Its chief object of 
interest is the church. Erected somewhere between 1080 to 
1150, it has been well cared for, and the work of restoration 
recently carried out has been judiciously restrained ; so that the 
fine old pillars and arches are fully preserved. Attached to the 
church, and forming with it one building, is a massive square 
tower intended as a place of strength, and with seven-feet thick 
walls loopholed for the purpose of firing on assailants. The 
vaulted chamber which forms the basement is entered from the 
nave of the church by a doorway in which the iron grill remains 
in situ. A narrow winding stair gives access to the upper 
chambers and to the belfry. The Rev. J. Baker, vicar of the 
church, who met the party and kindly acted as their guide, re- 
marked that in all probability the same bell which tolled from 
that tower on the death of Queen Victoria tolled also the 
requiem for Edward I., when he died in his tent on Burgh March 
601 years ago. Train arrangements did not permit of time to 
visit the modern monument which marks that spot, and which 
was seen in the distance. 
On the return to Bowness a business meeting was held, 
under the presidency of Dr Maxwell Ross, and the following 
new members were admitted to the Society:—Mr W. Common, 
Gracefield, Dumfries; Mr Maitland-Heriot of Whitecroft; Mr 
R. Pairman Miller, 50 Queen Street, Edinburgh; Mr J. J. 
Carruthers, Sunderland; Mrs R. S. Dewar, George Street, 
Dumfries; Mr Bell, Schoolhouse, Parton; Mr R. W. Miln, 
Annandale Estate Office, Hillside, Lockerbie. 
