Ivi. ABBOTSBURY TO BRIDPORT HARBOUR. 



BERWICK. 



In Saxon times Berewick was the seat of the family of 

 Tour or de Turri. Here the first Earl of Bedford, Thomas 

 Russell, was born. Mr. C. Bryant kindly allowed the visitors 

 to view the house ; but little remains qf the original structure 

 save some portions of the chapel. 



BURTON BRADSTOCK. 



At the Church the Rector, the Rev. F. T. HARRISON, gave 

 an interesting account of the parish. 



Burton was " Bride-ton," the tun or village of the Bride ; and Bradstock, 

 Bradeiistoke, because it belonged to the priory of St. Augustine at that place 

 in Wilts. Henry I. gave the manor to the Abbey of Caen, in Normandy, to 

 redeem the regalia which the Conqueror had at his death handed over to that 

 abbey. The church is a large, handsome, cruciform structure, principally 

 Perpendicular, with a high tower adorned with battlements and containing 

 five bells. Originally in that parish they had no less than six churches or 

 chapels. The Rev. C. H. W. DICKER added a few words about the Norman 

 history of the church, and called attention to the Jacobean communicants' 

 rails, as prescribed by Archbishop Laud, and with projecting nobs supposed to 

 be intended to help old people rise from the kneeling posture. Upon the front 

 of the rails is carved the date IfiSfi and the initials of the churchwardens of 

 that year. 



THE GEOLOGY OF THE COAST. 



Some of the partyfrom this point drove straight to West Bay, 

 but a strong pedestrian contingent went across some fields to 

 the spot where the little river Bredy approaches the beach. 

 Here Dr. W. THEOPHILUS ORD kindly gave a most lucid and 

 interesting lecture on the geology of the coast of Dorset. 

 He first laid stress on the exceptional advantages offered by 

 the coast of Dorset for the study of the geological formation 

 of England, since, out of the different stratified rocks of the 

 country, 24 in number, more than half, to be precise 13, were 

 exposed in the Dorset cliffs. 



In walking from the west at Lyme Regis to the east at Caiiford Cliffs, one 

 finds all the formations arranged in their proper and unbroken succession, 



