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FOXHILL LANE. 
This approach to Combe Down was probably in olden days 
a farm road of the Bennet family, who were possessors of the 
land adjoining it. 
Here was situated Widcombe Cottage, the residence of the 
Rev. Richard Warner, the Bath historian, who presented 
Queen Charlotte with a copy of his work on the Bath waters, 
on her visit to Bath. 
Warner was born in London in 1764, of humble parentage, 
and died in 1854, at 90 years of age, at ““Widcombe Cottage.” 
He had held several livings in the County of Somerset, and 
died Rector of Chelwood, in which church there is a tablet 
to his memory. 
His daughter (also an authoress) continued to live for some 
years in her father’s house, which she called ‘‘ Beech Cottage.” 
The property was subsequently purchased by a member 
of the Moger family, who called it “‘ Warners,” and enlarged 
the house in Swiss fashion and rebuilt the road, making it, 
though steep, accessible for small vehicles. The present 
owner has changed the name from “‘ Warners ”’ to “‘ Hersfeld.” 
Poprr’s LANE. 
This is a steep ascent from Perrymead, running almost 
parallel with Prior Park Avenue, and emerging near the 
upper Prior Park gates. 
It was evidently an ancient British or Roman bridle path 
and originally ran on a higher paved causeway, as may be 
noticed in the hedges here and there. It is traceable by 
Mount Pleasant to Monkton Combe, and again in the Limpley 
Stoke woods, and may have been a pathway to Salisbury. 
Mr. Russell Duckworth’s residence, ‘‘ The Cloisters,” is 
situated at the foot of Pope’s Lane. It was built by one of 
the Crutwells, of Frome, in 1806, who originally called it 
‘“Perrymead Hall,” but changed the name to “ The Cloisters” 
to avoid postal mistakes when Perrymead Court and Perry- 
mead House (now Moregrove) were built. The name 
‘Cloisters’ was suggested by a cloistered verandah which 
Mr. Crutwell had added to the mansion. 
The pretty Roman Catholic Cemetery chapel was built in 
1857. The picturesque old shepherd’s arch was built about 
1745, by Ralph Allen, to connect Prior Park Farm with 
Combe Down. 
