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the shelter provided at the G.W.R. Station. Fortunately, the weather im- 

 proved in less than an hour after the motors travelled down Rowcroft and 

 through the Nails worth valley. Indeed, with Horsley left behind — for the 

 outward journey lay through Tiltups End and the picturesque country leading 

 to Calcot Barn' and Beverston — the rain had ceased, and for the remainder 

 of the day the conditions were delightful. This was all the more satisfactory 

 because the programme included a stoppage of nearly three hours in the 

 magnificent grounds at Westonbirt House. [W.T.] 



BEVERSTON CASTLE. 



Here the Rev. J. N. Bromehead, the Rector of Beverston, was in readi- 

 ness to act as conductor, as he had been only a few days before for the Bristol 

 and Gloucestershire Archaeological Society. He is well-qualified to undertake 

 this duty, for he has published a well-written guide of this district '/^ and when 

 playing the part of cicerone he discourses fluently and pleasantly upon a sub- 

 ject which he has made his own. First, he drew attention to the farmhouse 

 inhabited by Mr E. Garlick, which was erected about 1791 on the site of 

 the castle banqueting hall, the outer wall of which remains. The roof of this 

 hall was pitched much higher than that of the present long farmhouse, as 

 may be seen by the east side of the tower against which it rested. Entering 

 the guard-room of the tower at the south-west corner (fig. i), the party were 



South West Tower, Beverston Castle. 

 (Block lent by the Bristol & Glos. Arch. Soc.) 



1 See Proc. Cotteswold Nat. F.C., vol. vi., pt. i (for 1871), pp. 15-16 ; and id., vol. ix., pt. i 

 (for 1885-86), pp. 6-7. 



2 " Beverston: its Church and its Castle " (1905). PhilUmore & Co., London. 



An excellent account of Beverston Castle, bv a former rector of Beverston, the late Rev. J. H. 

 Blunt, will be found in his " Dursley and its Neighbourhood," pp. 97-147. Views of the Castle, as 

 it appeared in the i8th century, are given in Buck's "Antiquities," vol. i., plate 98 (dated 1732) ; 

 Grose's "Antiquities " (New Ed.), vol. u., p. 73 ; and Bigland's " Collections," vol. i., p. 175. " 

 also Trans. B. and G.A.S., vol. ii., pp. 205-207. 



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