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the Rifle Butts of the Warleigh Manor Company of Rifles. 
The next field to Little Oxmead is called “ The Batch.” The 
word means a small stream or rivulet, and such a stream still 
exists. The next is Binney, by the eye, or islet, opposite an 
island in the river joined by a mill hatch in former times to 
Warleigh Mill. This mill is mentioned in the Survey of 1805, 
and also in a record of the perambulation of the parish in 1775.* 
My father purchased the mill and ferry about 60 years ago, with 
the fishery half-stream the whole length of the Avon so far as the 
parish bounds extend, and of the whole stream of the Box Brook 
up to Shockerwick Lodge, was conveyed to him at the sale. 
Just outside the mill house is the ancient ford road, a pack-horse 
road of very great antiquity, branching off from the main Fosse 
road from Seaton to Lincoln at the top of Claverton Hill, and on 
the Farleigh side joining eventually the old Marlborough road. 
The Dry Arch crosses this road at the top of Warleigh Hill. If 
we cross the ferry we land in the Ham Meadow of Claverton, 
where an important skirmish took place between Waller’s forces 
and the Royal troops a few days before the battle of Lansdown. 
I was always of opinion that the trocpers of the Parliament 
crossed over by the ford, but it appears from an able paper read 
to this Club some years ago by Mr. E. Green that Waller had 
thrown a bridge across the Avon. He had planted his cannon, 
as before observed, on a high terrace in Warleigh Wood, com- 
* The bounds here were defined to include the mill premises and small island 
adjoining the Weares. 
In a lease dated 1660 from William Skrine, of Bathford, to James Biggs, 
Warley Wares (sic) are thus described :—1st, Warley Mill, rood of meadow 
ground lying near the same mill, and the Weares, floodgates, and flood hatches. 
thereto belonging. 2nd, by the willow-beds growing on the north side of the 
said Weares, near the said Weares, with the fishing the said Weares, and of the 
half stream of the river from the south side of the said Weare unto the south 
end of a close of meadow called Mill Mead. 
It is important in my view to notice the word Weare mentioned so often in 
connection with the ancient fishery which I believe gave its name to Warley— 
the Weare-Lea. 
