Millmead, Bramley. 



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nearly filled with rock pinks ; just at the top is an irregular row of dwarf lavender, the 

 short-stemmed, dark-flowered kind that blooms in July — nearly a month sooner than the 

 larger ordinary lavender — and at the back of this is a hedge of hardy fuchsia. Further 

 flights of steps, on the same middle line, lead down to the lowest level, which is some 

 five feet above that of the meadow. In the narrow border next the meadow are only low 

 shrubs, the better to see the 

 pleasant prospect of mead and 

 millstream, though there are 

 one or two posts for roses, and 

 a wild clematis that forms 

 garlands from post to post. 



At the southern corner, 

 where there is an odd angle, 

 the third summer-house was 

 built, a wooden structure on a 

 brick foundation, weather- 

 boarded outside and also elm- 

 boarded within. A wide 

 window with casements and 

 lead lights looks out on to the 

 meadow. The httle place is 

 of a queer shape, and yet 

 seems roomy. It is thickly 

 roofed with straw thatch. In 

 winter it is curiously comfort- 

 able — always feeling dry and 

 warm. Near it outside is the 

 dipping well, which was built 

 to take advantage of a natural 

 spring, one of the many that 

 feed the stream. It is built 

 up with a Bargate wall about 

 three feet out of the ground. 

 On this a pair of the old ship 

 pillars supports a beam with 

 a pulley for the rope that 

 dips and puhs up the bucket. 

 A little tiled roof is built 

 over, now nearly hidden by 

 the growth of a climbing rose 

 and the wild clematis. Next to the bank and holly hedge which form the eastern 

 boundary, a sloping path on a lower level runs the whole way down, forming a 

 convenient barrow-way with access to each level. 



FIC. 10.- 



-THE DIPPING WELL. POINT OF VIEW 

 GENERAL PLAN (FIG. 4). 



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