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often down to Monkton Combe to rest at the old “ King 
William Inn,” now part of the Monkton Combe School 
buildings. 
The site of the old Lyncombe parish church lay near the 
foot of Lyncombe Hill, and was taken down by Prior Birde 
in the 15th Century to rebuild the old Widcombe Parish 
Church. 
Near the site of the Tram Company’s shelter at Glass House 
Farm there was formerly a gibbet, and the body of John 
Bigges hung on it on Christmas Day, 1767, for the murder 
of his wife in a fit of uncalled-for jealousy. The body 
was taken on New Year’s Eve by his friends and thrown 
into the river and found subsequently at Twerton and buried 
there. 
The Glass House Farm derives its name from the fact that 
a glass manufactory was erected upon its site by the Bennets, 
of Widcombe, in the early part of the 18th Century. It was 
afterwards disused, and the tall chimney fell in 1779, crushing 
some waggons sheltered under it. 
Subsequently the premises were used for farm purposes, 
and at the beginning of the 1gth Century a large room per- 
taining to the glass manufactory was made use of for political 
meetings. The farm, with a considerable amount of land 
adjoining it, and the great tithes were sold to Mr, Hill, of 
Paulton, in 1841, and the property still remains in-that family. 
ENTRY HILL. 
This was a Roman road to Warminster, v7a Midford, Hinton 
Charterhouse and Frome, made in the reign of Antoninus Pius, 
and like all the roads of that period, it had doubtless a “ road 
mark ’’ inscribed ‘‘ Anton Iter.’’ In time this “ road mark” 
doubtless became dilapidated and broken up, but the Anton 
was rcmembered and converted into ‘‘ Anthony ”’ and of later 
years it has been abbreviated into ‘‘ Entry” Hill. 
A quarry near the top of Entry Hill was used by the Rev. 
C. Kemble to provide the stone necessary for the renovation 
of Bath Abbey during his Rectorship. 
Entry Hill was re-made and enlarged in 1803 (a time of 
much road-making about Bath), and at the same time the 
Combe Down road was made as another way to Warminster, 
via Claverton Down. Until that time it was little more than 
a rough cart road. 
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