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Tradition speaks of Watchet as the place whence the stone came 
for South Brent Church. Tradition also speaks of Roman coins 
having been found in this camp on the top—possibly—but the 
form is evidently pre-Roman, and must therefore have been 
occupied subsequently by these people. Easy was the descent 
from the top to East Brent ; a small knot of the junior inhabitants 
of that village had been intently watching the party, their inten- 
tions were now evident, as they were seen scampering down the 
hill as Archdeacon Denison’s skirmishers sent to warn the latter 
of the enemy’s approach. That venerable man, whose climbing 
days, as he said, were over, was in readiness at the foot of the hill, 
and with his usual warm greeting to all who come within his ken, 
welcomed the philosophers ; report had reached the latter at the 
railway station that he had, with his usual forethought, provided 
fifty bottles of soda water in anticipation of their thirsty pro- 
pensities. The party at once yielded themselves up to his cheery 
guidance, and felt that they were in the hands of one accustomed 
to command. After a most hospitable reception by Mrs. 
Denison at the Vicarage, and partaking of a lunch the very 
model of what a lunch should be to a party of hungry 
pedestrians, they proceeded to visit the water works, with 
which his name will be long associated. The rather complicated 
series of reservoirs, springs, dams, taps, filtering beds and pipes 
were fully explained. The supply of pure water obtained from 
the hill was not only conducted to the Vicarage, but the whole 
parish also benefited by its use, so that instead of the 
villagers drawing water from the same watercourses which carried 
the sewers as heretofore, they had now an unfailing supply of 
the purest water brought to their doors, and thus was increased 
the health and happiness, and, it is to be hoped, the gratitude of 
the inhabitants. After looking at the tanks and the fish-hatching 
house in the Vicarage garden, the Archdeacon showed them over 
the Church, similar in structure to that of South Brent, consisting 
of nave and north aisle, with mortuary chapel on south. The three 
