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5. Engineering. — Terrett Bros., Walk Mills (part of), Kingswood. 



6. Floch.—^ind MUl (part of), Wotton.i 



7. Grist. — Hack Mill, Wotton (Berkeley Farmers' Association) ; 



North Nibley Mill ; Walk Mills (part of), Kingswood. 



8. Photographic Works. — " Cotswold " (collotype), Wotton. 



9. Printing. — Wotton. 



10. Stone-quarrying. — Wickwar, Cromhall,' etc. (Carboniferous 

 Limestone) ; Wotton Hill, etc. (Inferior Oolite). 



From Kingswood the Members drove into Wotton, the final ascent 

 before entering the town being over the lower beds of the Middle Lias, while 

 the upper bed, the hard Marlstone, gives rise to the platform so noticeable 

 from the summit of Wotton Hill and upon which the house called " Ellem- 

 croft," is situated. This Marlstone is very rich in fossils, and in 1886, when 

 some excavations were made at Bournstream, many specimens were 

 obtained. 3 



Mr St. Clair Baddeley and Mr C. O. Hanson, Principal of the Cro\vn 

 School of Forestry, Forest of Dean, were elected Members. 



PLACES OF INTEREST IN WOTTON. 



After lunch at the Swan Hotel the Members proceeded to see the 

 places of interest in Wotton (population 3,021)4 under the guidance of Mr H. 

 Goldingham. 



After having pointed out the quaint bell turret upon the " Tolsey " 

 building, Mr Goldingham conducted the Members to the quaint old Alms 

 Houses (Plate XV., fig. 2) and Chapel in Church Street, which were founded 

 by Hugh Perry, a native of Wotton, in 1638. There are two other groups of 

 alms houses in Wotton — " Bearpackers " and " Rowland Hill's " — and the 

 three are controlled by a public body called the " Trustees of the General 

 Charities." Wotton abounds in Charities. 



At the Alms Houses Mr Goldingham exhibited : — 



I. — " A booke of accounts concerning the new Almshouse of Mr Hugh Perr>', his found- 

 , ation." 1648. Wotton-under-Edge. 



2. — " A booke of Accounts of those Writings that are belonging to the Parish of Wotton 

 and Remaining in the Overseers' Hands." 1685. 



3. — Copy collated by J. Pennell, notary pubUc, attested by H. Ballard, W. Archard, and 

 G. Smyth, of the deed of foundation (temp. Richard II.) of the School at Wotton- 

 under-Edge, by Katharine, wife of Thomas Lord Berkeley. 



4. — " A True Survey, etc." of the Grammar School lands with order in Chancer}' in the 

 Smyth litigation, 29th Aug. 5 Geo. I. ... 



Mr Goldingham said that he had put out at his office a number of other 

 books of equal if not greater interest than those he was exhibiting, but lack 

 of time prevented the Members from studying these interesting documents. 



A brief visit was next paid to the Grammar School. This is the seventh 

 oldest endowed school in the country, being preceded by those at Carlisle, 

 Derby, Huntingdon, Salisbur^^ St. David's and Hereford. [L.R.] 



1 Until IQ09 the Nind Mills were occupied by Messrs Millman, Hunt & Co., who manufactured 

 fine wollen cloths, printers' blanketing, serges, worsted coatings, etc., but then a part became a grist 

 mill lor a time (now discontinued) and part a flock mill, which is still (Dec, 1913) running. 



2 "Good lime, the only supply in the district, is made at Cromhall."-W. G. Cottrell {in litt.) 



3 Proc. Cotteswold Nat. F.C., vol. ix., pt. 2. (1887), p. 83. 



4 Sir Isaac Pitman lived in Wotton from 1836 to 1839, and was master at the British School in 

 Sim Lane. On 26th Nov., 1913, the centenary of his birth, a tablet was affixed to the house 

 where he lived in Orchard Street, in which he invented his system of Shorthand known as 

 Phonography. 



