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COACHING DAYS AND COACHING WAYS 



Wincanton, 108 miles 3 furlongs, noted for its Bear 

 Inn, for a visitation of the Black Death in 1553, and 



Paying Toll. 



for the first blood shed in a slight skirmish in the 

 Revolution ; and thence by Hoi ton, and Sparkford 

 Street, to Ilchester and Ilminster, which former place 



