PROCEEDINGS 



OF THE 



SOMERSETSHIRE ARCH^OLOGICAL AND 

 NATURAL HISTORY SOCIETY, 



1860, PART II. 



PAPER S, ETC. 



BY THE REV. THOMAS HUGO, M.A., F.S.A., F.R.S.L., ETC., 

 HON. MEMBEE. 



A MONG tbe many delightful roacls by which a traveller 

 XA- ^^ the west may i'eacli on all sides the fair town of 

 Taunton, he will find few, if any, more agreeable than that 

 wbicb runs from Borougb Bridge to the village of Durston, 

 and then, with West Monkton at a short distance on the 

 right and Creech S. Michael on the left, leads him through 

 our favorite Bathpool, and by its picturesque mills, either 

 along the ancient highway, commonly called Old Bathpool 

 Lane, under Creechbury Hill, or by the windings of the 

 Tone and the Priory Fields, to the busy streets and the 

 consequent termination of bis journey. He will not have 

 advanced far on the route that I have here laid down, when 

 the matchless vale of Taunton Dean, with its churches and 

 steeples, its mansions and parks, its corn-fields and groves, 

 and its noble framework of Neroche and Blackdown, above 

 the sunny Shoulders of Thornfalcon and Stokc, of Orchard 



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