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examine the harbour and district around, and to note the 

 direction of the Roman road, wliich seems to liave run from 

 thence in a line for Badbury Kings, where is a well-known 

 earthwork ; in the neighbourhood Roman roads have been traced, 

 one of which connected it with Maesbury Camp, on the line of 

 the Fosse Road. A well-known line of Roman road along the 

 Mendip hills connected the camp last mentioned with the Roman 

 port at Uphill on the Severn, and thus united the Bristol Channel 

 with the harbour of Poole on the English Channel, and so 

 connected the Western and Southern coast of Britain. The party 

 then returned to Bath after an agreeable two days' excursion. 

 The following is the paper read by Rev. Prebendary Scarth. 



The Priory of Christ Church, Twynham, dedicated to the Holy 

 Trinity, takes its name from its pecuUar position between two rivers, 

 which flow one ou each side, viz., the Avon and tlie Stour. Accordiug 

 to Camden the ancient name was " Twinamburne, " " Ubi ad 

 confluentes intersidet emporiohim frequeus, uuuc ab ^de Chnsto 

 Sacra, CHRIST CHURCH, oHm quod inter amnes iuterpositum, 

 TWINAMBURNE, eodem plaue seusu quo Italise Interamna. Sub 

 quo Sturus et Avoua uuo conjuncti ostio in mare efTunduntur." 

 (See Camden's Britannia, 1st edition, 1586, p. 123.) The meadow 

 between the two rivers aptly describes its position. 



Respecting the site of the present Church, we find a college with a 

 dean and secular canons phinted there very early in Saxon times. 

 Accordiug to Camden, Ralph Flambard, afterwards Bishop of Durham, 

 was Dean of Christ Church, Hants ; he built the nave of the present 

 Church in the time of William Rufus Previous to this the College 

 of Secular Canons had nine small chapels and manses. Christ Church 

 afterwards became a community of Augustine or Austin Canons, 

 founded by Bishop Flambard* and the Earl of Devon, a.d. 1150. 



The Austin Canons were constituted an Order a.d. 1061, and had as 

 many as 175 houses in this island. Mauy of their Churches remain, 

 and ai-e still in use, as Christ Church. The community consisted of 

 18 canons. 



• He became Bishop of Durham, a d. 1099. 



