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were called “ Cankery Hole” Revels, and dogs and cats used to be 
put into the clefts in the rocks above, where it was supposed was 
a subterranean passage to Farleigh, and it is, I believe, true that 
foxes have run through to the Farleigh side. 
Just below this part of the Down in the Warleigh House wood 
are the ruins of the old Warleigh Keeper’s Lodge, whose widow, 
Sally Gibson, was in my childhood accounted a witch, and died at 
a fabulous age. Her smoke-dried hut was like an awful cave of 
Trophonius to us children, and her thin shrill sepulchral voice still 
rings in my ears. At her death the carpenter who acted as sub- 
bailiff burnt the cottage down and declared to us children that he 
saw something on a broomstick go out of the chimney! A flat 
spot of ground close to the cottage was turned into a rustic fort 
by my father to commemorate the skirmish of Claverton, believing 
that the cannons which were then fired at Claverton House were 
planted on or near the spot, and it seems likely enough. We 
now come to the Dry Arch, and crossing it turn over a stone stile 
to the right hand and follow along the down to Inwood Gate, 
(“‘Inwards Gate” in Survey). This must mean “End of thewoods.” 
There is a stone wall at this gate which extends as far as Conk- 
well, and is the boundary of my property and of the Manor. 
But we shall do well to follow through Jnwood, as the Farleigh 
Wood is still called, to Southwood’s End, that is to the end of 
Warley Wood. We now reach a small patch of waste called “‘ No 
Man's Land, on which another gate opened from one side of 
» the Manor, which I had walled up some years ago. ‘“ No Man’s 
Land” is another instance of the inter-commoning of different 
parishes, as there was a continuation of the waste past the hamlet 
of Conkwell, as far as the high road to Winsley and Bradford 
from Limpley Stoke and Bath. 
From Ashley Wood we have come to Conkwell, Cunuca-legh 
in the charter. There have been several suggestions to account 
for the origin of the name. Cunuca is in the opinion of a more 
_ learned archeologist than myself derived from the Latin Cuniculus, 
