4 ai Tet 
Pe a ee a = eee ae 
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Concerning this place our Hon. Secretary had made the 
following notes in the programme :— 
“ Andoversford stands on the old British trackway from 
Winchcombe to Cirencester, at the point where it crosses 
a small stream. The name is pronounced by the natives 
as two words, as, in fact, it was formerly written— 
Andovers Ford. Formation of place-names with a genitive 
on the analogy of personal names is a well-known Glou- 
cestershire custom: the Glossary gives examples like 
Stroud’s Water, Over’s Bridge. 
It is curious that at both ends of the M. & S.W,J. 
Railway the place is Andover. In connection with the 
other Andover there is the river-name Anna, with places 
such as Anna Valley, Abbots Ann, Amport. This, 
perhaps, gives the clue to the title of the Gloucestershire 
place, and suggests a forgotten river-name. Anna was, 
perhaps, the name of the stream forded: it joins the Coln 
here. And Anna is, perhaps, Keltic avnos, a stream—the 
present-day Arno. Dover suggests Welsh dw/r, water.” 
A railway cutting near Frog Mill, shows three anticlines 
and two synclines, the Upper Lias being elevated at both 
ends and about the middle of the cutting. The basement 
beds of the Inferior Oolite yielded Audlacothyris Blakez, 
whilst a certain zone in the Pea-grit was prolific in a new 
species of Rhynchonella. An examination of the detrital 
matter of these beds reveals the presence of grains of 
quartz and small garnets, indicating that the beds were 
deposited in a sea which beat upon a shore of igneous 
rocks, probably the Malverns. The same railway cutting 
was useful in exhibiting the distribution of the Inferior 
Oolite rocks at this point: they have been inaccurately 
delineated on the Geological Survey Map. 
The Rector of Withington, the Rev. W. S. Fallon, M.A., 
conducted the party over the church, which possesses 
some interesting Norman work and a rare form of piscina. 
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