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the Devizes road to Kingsdown and South Wraxall. The manor 
house, built in the 16th century by Robert Long, has an 
elaborate chimney piece, enriched with caryatides and figures of 
justice, prudence, arithmetic and geometry, with date of 1596 
on it. The manor was granted by Agnes, Abbess of Shaftesbury: 
with the consent of her nuns, to the monks of Farley, in 1252. 
During the ordinary week-day walks Wellow and Stoney 
Littleton were visited on March Ist, vid Odd Down, Burnt 
House, and Combe Hay. The “head” at the Oolite quarry 
near Bloomfield Crescent was noted en passant. Arrived at 
Stoney Littleton, after some little delay caused in procuring the 
key, which is kept at a cottage below, the heart-shaped chambered 
tumulus was entered, and the party were grieved to see that the 
roof of the furthest loculus on the right hand had fallen in, 
though the outside supporting wall of the tumulus had been 
recently repaired. The return to Bath was by Twinhoe and 
South Stoke. Clay Hill was seen in the distance covered with 
snow. The day was bright and clear, the wind cold and the 
walking heavy. 
Bathford and Box, on October 18th, the object being to see 
the curious infilling of flints on the great Oolite quarry on the 
brow of the hill over Bathford. The beds having been worked 
back on the south side a much larger mass of flints had been 
exposed since the Club last visited it. Turning off the road to 
the left through Mr. Sainsbury’s property, the new tramway for 
stone was followed to the main road, through Ashley Wood, 
and thence to the crossroads on Kingsdown, over the golf 
ground to Box. Several large elms were seen prostrate, testifying 
to the severity of the late gale on the 14th. 
Kelston on November 29th, a day remarkable for its fineness 
and the warmth of the sun. Bathampton on December 20th. 
The landslip at Combe Hay on December 27th; the usual causes 
of the many local slips seen around our hills were at work here— 
3 water percolating over the slippery clays of the Fuller's earth, 
and bringing the superincumbent beds down the slope. 
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