144 EXCURSION TO EASTBURY AND BRISTOL IN 1)67. 



heaviest piles of stone S r J no Vanbnigh ever erected. The 

 inside is fitted up magnificently with a great deal of gilding and 

 Ceilings painted after the antique. Upon the whole the inside is 

 much more convenient as well as more elegant than the outside 

 gives any hopes of. The Countrey about it is Pleasant, consist- 

 ing cheifly of open Downs and sheep walks, except towards the 

 west and N.W., where the town and enclosures of Tarent Gunvil 

 and the Woods of Cranbourn Chace give an agreable variety, 

 contrasting with the open countrey on the other sides. At 

 twelve Cleard up, went in Search of a Barrow which the 

 Bishop of Carslisle had informd me was somewhere in this 

 neighbourhood. Found it at the N. Corner of the Park, its 

 construction very singular, being a Bank of about 60 paces 

 in Lengh and 15 broad, N.E. b N. [N.E. by N.] and S.W. 

 b W. A small part of one end was within the pail that had 

 been opend, and a grotto made in the hollow. We were told 

 that when it was opend a number of Bones were found. I 

 was exceedinly desirous of opening the other end, which was 

 in a sheep walk without the pails, but upon inquiring whose 

 property it was, had the mortification to be told that it 

 belongd to an estate now upon sale, the Owner of which was 

 in London ; was therefore obligd to give over all thoughts 

 of it. Went to Look at the Village. Found nothing in it 

 remarkable but the name Tarent Gunvill, the name of Tarent 

 being affixd to several little villages which stand on a little 

 Brook or torrent. 



17. This morn also Rainy and disagreable : venturd out 

 towards Chittle * in which Parish is situate a tolerable house, the 

 property of a M r - Chafin, f whose father was sometime Member 

 for the County: was agreably surprizd by finding within two 



* CHITTLE, spelt Chettle. A village about six miles N.E. of Blandford. 



fMr. CHAFIN. George Chafin, Esq., of Chettle, eldest son of George Chafin, 

 who died in 1766. The son died in 1776, aged 59. 





