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follow the bounds now by the fields and may perhaps have to 
trespass a little. We pass through Summerleaze, Mow Down, 
Little Mow Down to Upper Matford which adjoins Shockerwick 
Lodge.* 
There the boundary line crosses the Box road to the Weaver 
brook which is here for 2 short distance the parish boundary (but 
hardly a quarter of a mile as stated in the Survey) till it comes to 
Long Ivies, which must be identical with “ Niveys Pye” in the 
Survey. Pye appears to mean a divided meadow, and Long Ivies 
is probably the nearest approach to the old name “ And- 
Lang-Ufer” along the river bank, which exactly describes the 
field.+ 
Here we cross the Weaver and the Railway and ascend the 
hill to Ashley Wood. (There is a footpath across the line near 
here, where a woman was killed some years ago.) ‘To Ashley 
Wood” says the Survey, “ to Hnws-legh” saysthe Charter. Hnes t 
means a wet or boggy spot, and here ir this wood is the bog out of 
which the Kingsfall brook, which is here the boundary of the Manor 
and County, descends towards the Weaver. The brook though 
named in the Survey is not named in the Saxon Land Limits. 
From Niveys Pye to Kingsfall brook, and thence towards the 
east as far as Ashley Wood for halfa mile. The wood being partly 
in Box parish and partly in Bathford, is divided by the Kingsfall 
brook or stream, and probably some old pollards mark (as usual 
in such cases) the line to the top of the down. There is a field at 
thetop of the wood (grubbed out of the down orwood at some time) 
called Soapleaze.§ Kingsfull seems to indicate that the name of 
King’s Down extended to this part of the hill, and now we are on 
the top of the hill and the line of boundary is the wall of Monkton 
Farleigh Down and Manor as far as No Man’s Land near Conkwell. 
* The map here explains the line of boundary. 
+ N B—There is a field of this name in Warleigh similarly situated along the 
banks of the Avon. + Hneese-Nesh soft. 
§ Named in the Survey as Sopers, a close of pasture and Wood. 
