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the best pedestrians of the party had scaled Heaven’s Gate in the 
park, and admired the glorious panorama thence observable. The 
return journey to Bath was safely effected, and the members of 
the Bath Field Club dispersed to their several homes. 
Westbury and Edington.—Nestling under the northeru escarp- 
ment of Salisbury plain lies a little village of 927 inhabitants, 
named Edington, containing the only remaining Monastic Church 
in Wiltshire. Here, in a profusely wooded country, four miles 
from the nearest town, Westbury, a native of the place, Bishop 
Edington, the predecessor of William of Wykeham in the see of 
Winchester, built between 1352 and 1361 a church of almost 
cathedral proportions, and at the request of Edward the Black 
Prince attached to it a monastery of Bons-hommes of the 
Augustinian Order, monks who only held one other Priory in 
England, at Ashridge, Bucks. The endowment of the living is 
exceedingly small, as in most other secularised monastic churches, 
the great and little tithes having been presented by the King at 
the Reformation to lay favourities. In this case according to 
Crockford £1,396 of the tithe rent charge is impropriated, leav- 
ing £30 to the vicar. Since the commencement of the century 
this living was held by a Dr. Littlewood for more than 50 years, 
the grass and weeds covered the floor of the nave, and service was 
held in the chancel, the whole fabric being in a terribly dilapi- 
dated condition. On this excellent old vicar’s decease in 1880, 
the Rev. H. Cave-Brown-Cave succeeded, and by his own 
liberality and the aid of his many friends, succeeded in collecting 
sufficient funds to restore this spacious and interesting church into 
something like its original condition. The Bath Field Club, 
whose previous visit to the locality was in 1873, when the church 
stood in ruin, paid a second visit on October 25th, and 12 
members braved the piercing wind and drizzle during the five 
miles drive from. Westbury Station and back. Six other members 
who had put down their names for the excursion, could not muster 
up courage to face the ordeal, and if they saved themselves from 
