142 Leland’s Journey through Wiltshire. 
And I have redde that there was another nunnery wher now is 
a poore hospitale,! about the south bridge without the toun the way 
to Chippenham. 
Going out of Malmesbyri by the south gate I turnid on the lifte 
hond, and so passid over Avon by a fair bridg of stone having 3 
arches. 
And then conscending an hillet, even ther by left, a chapelle2 or 
paroch chirch hard on the lift hand; and then leaving the park 
and the late abbates maner place? on the lift hond, I came to a 
village about a mile of, caullid Fosse, wher was a bridge and a 
good streame renning undre it. 
Thens to Chippenham a vi. miles. 
FROM MALMSBURY, BY CORSHAM, HASELBURY, AND SOUTH WRAXHALL, 
TO BRADFORD. [u1. 54. ] 
Riding between Malmesbyri and Chippenham al the ground on 
that side of the ryver was chaumpain, fruteful of corne and grasse, 
but litle wood. 
Thus rydyng, I lefte Avon streme aboute a 2 miles on the lifte 
hand. I markid 2 places betwene Malmesbyri and Chippenham 
notable. Draicote, wher Sir Henrye Long hath a fair manor place 
and a park, about a mile from Avon streame. Draicot is a 5 miles 
from Malmesbyri, and a 2 miles from Chippenham.6 
1 “ Hospital.” Of St. John of Jerusalem, near the south bridge, on the 
way to Chippenham : now used asan almshouse. An early pointed arch formerly 
the doorway, but now blocked up, still remains. 
2 “Chapelle.” Burton Hill chapel alluded to above. 
3 “ Park and Maner-place.” Then called Cowfold Park. It was part of the 
abbot’s own demesne, and the name is spelled in this way in the oldest docu- 
ments. It was afterwards corrupted into Cufold Park, then into Cold-park, 
and finally into Cole-park ; by which it is now known as the property of Audley 
Lovell, Esq. 
4 Leland’s ear deceived him. The name of the village is Corston. 
5 ‘2 Miles.” The reader will often observe a considerable difference between 
Leland’s measurement and the actual distances. As he appears to have used 
figures and not words, it is possible that the injured state of the manuscript, 
already alluded to, may have misled the copyist in many instances 
