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small portion, of that ancient erection might still be found 

 somewhere on its back premises. 



Then comes Foxhole, or as it now called, Vauxhall, and 

 behind it is Garden Mill, overlooked by Buttville, the 

 property of the late Admiral Hawkins, and now of his son, 

 C. S. Hawkins, Esq. 



A quarter of a mile below Dodbrooke Quay is Saltmill 

 Quay, on the same side of the Estuary. Here stood some 

 corn mills until the middle of the eighteenth century, 

 driven by the water secured by flood gates at the flowing 

 of the tide, in an enclosure at the side of the Quay, but 

 which about the year 1800 was turned into a meadow. 



A lime kiln just here was for a long time noticeable on 

 account of a noble Wych elm, growing quite through a 

 side wall, and spreading its graceful branches all over the 

 front of the kiln. It was the only specimen of this 

 particular kind of elm that we knew of anywhere in the 

 neighbourhood, but it was laid low by a fearful gale which 

 occurred in January, 1866, and did much damage in this 

 vicinity. At Wallingford, the gale seems to have been felt 

 in its greatest force — the wind taking the line of the valley. 

 There are, or rather were, in that valley, several hedges 

 full of fine elm trees, and one after another of these 

 were completely swept away, the trees lying along in 

 regular rows, as if they had been felled with an axe. 

 There were altogether one hundred and four trees prostrated 

 in this valley alone. 



About the end of the last century, a wall was com- 

 menced by Edward Hodges, Esq., at Salt Mill Quay, in 

 order to form a public walk, to be planted with trees, 

 which would make a pleasant communication, secure from 

 the flowing tide, between the wharf and Dodbrooke Quay ; 



