76 Collections for a History of Seagry. 
The land attached to this farm is chiefly pasture. The following 
are the names of the fields:—Stoney Burgess, Hungerdown 
Ground, Hungerdown Meadow, Older Ground, Bracken Hill, New 
Leaze, Sturmage, Long Close, Great Close, Five Thorns, Farmer’s 
Close, Grass Hyde, Ploughs Hyde. 
Passing over Jordan’s Gutter and down the road, past the 
school, we come on the left to a farm now rented from the executors 
of the late John Searle Bayliffe by T. Y. Candy, and formerly 
occupied by the Salters, Sealys, Knights and Fraylings. This farm, 
as now arranged, contains thirty acres of grass land :—Grammar’s 
Close, Ten Acres, Beard’s Ground. 
Opposite this farm is an old house falling into ruins, the property 
of Mrs. Sevier, of Maisemore Lodge, Gloucester. On the chimney 
outside are rudely cut the initials “ J.H.” and the date 1632. John 
Hibbert resided in the parish at that time, and from the arrange- 
ment of the house it evidently was once a substantial farm-house, 
It is now converted into two cottages, one being used as the post 
office, the other as a reading room. 
3.—Fox’s purchase. A few yards further down the road we 
reach an ancient farm-house, evidently four hundred years old, now 
occupied by William Hayward, a descendant of the Sealys and 
Benjamins, who rented the farm for over two hundred years, 
This farm I believe to have been part of Mr. Fox’s purchase, and 
to have passed to Lord Holland, who sold it with the rest of his 
estate in this parish to Earl Cowley. It consists of an ancient 
house, out-offices and two hundred acres, a considerable portion 
being arable. The following are the names of the fields :—Old 
Maise, Broad Close, Five Acres, Brimble, Lounces Leazes, Little 
North Field, Great North Field, Little Mead Plat, Great Sand 
Furlong, Vines Ground, Great Bickmead, Part of Adye’s, Great 
Copse Thorn, Little Copse Thorn, Acre, Field Ground, Wet Land, 
Field Grounds, Shadwell Ham, Little Shadwell, Great Linch, Little 
Linch, Mead Hill, Field Ground, The Meadow. 
Church Farm, formerlybelonging to Bradenstoke Priory. Crossing 
Jordan’s Gutter again, through the sluice gate, we come to Church 
Farm, known in the leases as Stratton’s. This farm is approached 
