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manding Claverton House, and under cover of these had crossed 
swords in the Ham Meadow. The defeated cavalry fled along 
the Warleigh Meadows, a route which we are about to take to 
complete our tour. The first meadow is called the Tyning, 
which has been thought to mean the ten acres, but which I 
derive from “ Tynan,” Anglo-Saxon for to hedge in a fence, and 
conclude it was the meadow fenced in close to the Villan’s house 
who farmed Warleigh for the Prior. The old Manor House of 
Warleigh stood at the top of this field, and in the adjoining 
shrubbery, or Grotto Walk, as we call it, which was laid out by 
“Capability Brown,” is a remarkably fine old yew tree, about. 25 
feet in girth, and quite stagheaded. It may have seen the 
Conquest, and doubtless stood near the principal house on this 
part of the Manor. Warleigh having been held by a thane in 
olden times, and after John de Villula bought it, seems to have 
been always held separately by the Prior down to the dissolution 
of the Monastery. 
Next to Tyning a narrow strip of meadow now thrown into a 
kitchen garden led into the field called Clotmead—or the Meadow 
of the Clot, or yellow water lily, which corroborates the view 
taken by Professor Earle of the origin of the name of Claverton— 
as Clot-ford-ton, the village near the ford of the Water Lily, 
and certainly there are Jots of clots, or water lilies, still in this 
part of the river. There is a very picturesque view from the 
Clotmead of the Hampton Rocks, with a fine curve of the Avon, 
overhung by abele and willow trees in the foreground. Here 
have been frequently held battalion drills and sham fights of the 
Warleigh corps of the Volunteer Rifles. We now pass under the 
terraces of the Manor House of Warleigh and through a field 
called Bean Leaze (showing former arable cultivation) to Summer 
Leaze, the lower part of which was once fenced off parallel to the 
river, and called Long IJvies, a similar name to Niveys on the 
Box Brook. The next field is Wash Pool, or Welshpool ; I believe 
the deep ditch which divides it from Summerlays, now a sunk 
