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Arriving at the Park dairy, a pause was made to view the well- 
arranged stock houses and circular dairy, the Alderney cows and 
calves. The Mansion of Tyntesfield, with its sumptuous green- 
houses, pictures and fittings, and beautiful Chapel was open to 
the Field Club, and a hour was quickly passed in viewing the 
numerous rooms of the house, the fine pictures, rare books and 
exquisite bindings in the library, and the coloured windows, 
mosaic floors, and perfect adornments of the groined Chapel. 
Passing from the house, a walk of a mile through the Park 
brought the party to the Lodge gates, where many thanks were 
given to the Rev. J. B. Medley for his kindness in conducting the 
members during the day’s excursion and obtaining the sanction of 
the owner of Tyntesfield to their viewing his mansion, and of the 
tenants of Chelvey and Tickenham Courts to examine those old 
places. A short walk from the Park brought the whole party to 
Flax Bourton station, whence a train restored all to their homes 
in Bath at 6.45 p.m. 
Marlborough and Savernake, September 11, 1894.—Twenty-three 
Members started by the 9.52 a.m, train on the Great Western 
Railway for Swindon, and thence continued their journey to 
Marlborough by the Midland and South Western Junction Rail- 
way. Arriving nearly half-an-hour late, a start was made for the 
College fully a mile distant, but ‘‘en route” the Churches of St. 
Mary and St. Peter were passed and the main street of the town 
with its picturesque gabled houses on its North side, the sole 
remnants of the ancient borough after the destructive fire of 1653, 
was much admired. This town was visited by Pepys on his way 
to The Bath in 1668, and he mentions in his Diary that he thought 
it ‘a pretty fair town for a street or two. On one side the pent 
houses supported with pillars, which make a fair work.” Arriving 
at the College, which has grown immensely around its nucleus, the 
Old Castle of Marlborough, afterwards the Castle Inn, long the 
best-known hostel on the Great Bath Road, where 42 public 
Coaches changed horses daily, the first object of interest which 
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