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valley runs from (say) Botley to Bishop's Waltham through Meonstoke, 

 Carhampton (iu the church of which parish there is an unspoilt bit of 

 Anglo-Saxon -work), Droxford, West Meon, and East Meon. The chief 

 part of the valley is seven or eight miles from any railway. The New 

 Forest also contains some very primitive places. The Rev. G. N. God- 

 win, of East Boldre, a parish seven miles from the nearest station, 

 believes that his village, which has a distinctly Celtic name, is in the 

 main a Celtic community almost untouched by the outside world. There 

 are numerous barrows all around, and he believes tbem to be literally 

 the graves of the leaders among his parishioners' ancestors. In no other 

 way can many traits of character which prevail among them be under- 

 stood. One of the tumuli is known as ' Colt Pixey's cave.' 



Mr. Clutterbuck, who is rector of Penton Mewsey, states that the 

 Test valley parishes, including the ' Anne ' lot round Andover, have a 

 character cf their own. The valley is very clearly marked out by the 

 high ground enclosing it ; a tribal boundary runs on one side, on the 

 opposite Wiltshire joins it ; and the valley is the limit of the manor and 

 hundred (with foreign hundred) of Andover. Of this manor the rolls 

 exist back to an early date, and the tythingmen's returns are in many 

 cases preserved, so that by them, as far back as the sixteenth century, 

 and by the rolls of the gild merchant to a much earlier date, the names 

 of pretty well all the inhabitants are known. The migration from 

 village to village probably greatly exceeded the emigration from the 

 valley and manor itself. The existence of the same name through a long- 

 period is very striking in the corporation records. The dialect is marked 

 more by grammatical structure than by difference of verbal forms. 

 There are some barrows (two in Penton Mewsey), a dyke, some camps, 

 and two intersecting Roman ways. There is a very interesting chain of 

 evidence of the growth of local government. Not only does historical 

 evidence point to the commencement of the port of Andover, but the 

 configuration of the ground upon which the town is built and that of the 

 town itself show how the port was fenced in. The parish of Penton 

 Mewsey, which was a separate manor, unlike the rest in the valley, has 

 274 inhabitants. 



Sussex. 



Place By whom suggested 



Hye Dr. Beddoe. 



Dr. Beddoe also suggests some village near the centre of the Weald. 



SOUTH WALES. 



Radnor. 



Places By whom suggested 



Knighton Dr. Beddoe. 



Presteign „ 



Llanigon Mr. E. Sidney Hartland, F.S.A. 



St. Harmon Mr. Stephen W. Williams, F.S.A. 



New Radnor „ „ 



Llanbadarn Fjnnydd .... „ „ 



Glasewin „ „ 



LlansaintfEraid Cwmdanddwr ... „ „ 



Llananno Archdeacon Thomas. 



The two small border towns named by Dr. Beddoe are probably little 

 disturbed. Llanigon is a mountain parish. The villages named by 



