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remained as a quarry up to 1608. For 536 years after its 
evacuation it retained the right of returning two members of 
Parliament. The election took place under an elm tree still 
standing, which marked the site of the last house which the 
memory of the oldest inhabitant had reported that one of his 
forefathers in past ages had stated to his grandchildren that he 
had seen. 
Again the White Hart, at Salisbury, received the party on 
their return, and the rain set in as if it meant continuance, so a 
return to the railway station was speedily made, and after a run 
of 41 miles, leisurely covered by a Great Western train in two 
hours and a quarter, in order, no doubt, to enable travellers to 
study the beauties of the Wylie Valley, and that of the 
Somersetshire Avon from Bradford, the Field Club was restored 
at 7 p.m. to its head-quarters stored with many subjects of great 
interest and obscurity which patient study of archzological 
volumes, and the works of past historians will enable them to 
explain hereafter. 
Blagdon and Yeo Valley Reservoir, May 22, 1894.—A large 
number of members of the Field Club assembled on the G.W.R. 
platform for the 10.18 train to Yatton, the first part of the 
journey being taken by rail, here brakes were waiting to drive 
the party to Blagdon. The route taken was vid Wrington and 
the north side of the river Yeo. The road first passes through 
the village of Yatton, about half-a-mile from the station, and the 
Church of St. Mary may be noticed on the right, with its trun- 
cated spire, according to some the result of an accident, according 
to others the want of funds, most probably the latter. 
The entrance to the Yeo Valley, which lies in a S.E. direction 
from Yatton, may be briefly described as bounded on the Bristol 
side by Wrington Warren and Broadwell Down, and on the 
Exeter by the Mendip Hills. The first stop was made at 
Wrington to visit the Church, here the churchwarden and sexton 
were in readiness to give what information they could. The 
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