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EEPORT — 1893. 



In Moreton, wbicli has nothing to do with marshland, but is Moreton 

 on the boundary of three counties, the Anthropometric Committee 

 obtained some excellent typical photographs, by the kindness of Miss 

 Whitmore-Jones, of Chastleton. These will be available for the use of 

 this committee. Avening is in a retired valley, through which a road 

 was, for the first time, made about forty years ago. Until then, so closely 

 did the inhabitants keep themselves that they allowed no one to marry 

 out of the village ; they hated strangers, and had a reputation for wild- 

 nes3 and everything that was bad. They are more civilised now, but stili 

 very conservative. 



Essex. 



Places 

 Mersea Island . 

 Canvey Island . 

 Villages on the Roding 

 Castle Hedinglium . 



By whom suggested 

 Mr. Holmes. 



Mr. W. Cole, Hon. Secretary of the Essex Field Club, states that 

 East Mersea is extremely interesting from the survival there of primitive 

 ways and modes of thought. Being away from the railways and tourist 

 routes, and its people having little intercourse with the outside world, it 

 is a good spot for the study of local folklore. In spots like Mersea and 

 Canvey Islands (as in Sheppey and Thanet, south of the Thames), the 

 Danes were wont to form more or less permanent stations, and Mersea is 

 mentioned as a Danish station in the ' Saxon Chronicle,' a.d. 895. The 

 villages on the upper part of the Roding probably furnish the most un- 

 mixed examples of the free Danish population, but on the other hand 

 Mersea and Cc\nvey are free from the later Huguenot element, so sti'ong 

 in Colchester, Bramtree, and other inland districts of the county. 



Places 



JMalmcsbnrv 

 Clyffe Pypard 

 Avebury . 

 Aldbonrnc 



Wilts. 



By whom suggested 

 Dr. Beddoe. 

 Mr. Lewis. 



Between Abury and Swindon there are still some poor remains of 

 megaiithic structures. 



Places 

 Cannington 

 Stowey 

 Combwich 

 Stogursey . 

 Charlwich . 

 Cheddar . 

 Banwell . 

 Winscombe 

 Eaton 

 Winsford . 

 Kingsbromptc n 

 Hawkridge 

 South Cadbury 

 Barton St. Dav 



Somerset. 



d s . . . . 



By ivliom suggested 

 Mr.F. W. Hembrv, F.R.M.S. 



Mr. Elworthy. 



Rev. C. W. Bennett. 



