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The land attached to this farm is chiefly pasture. The following 

 are the names of the fields : — Stoney Burgess, Hungerdown 

 Ground, Hungerdown Meadow, Older Ground, Bracken Hill, New 

 Leaze, Sturrnage, Long* Close, Great Close, Five Thorns, Farmer's 

 Close, Grass Hyde, Ploughs Hyde. 



Passing over Jordan's Gutter and down the road, past the 

 school, we come on the left to a farm now rented from the executors 

 of the late John Searle BaylifFe by T. Y. Candy, and formerly 

 occupied by the Salters, Sealys, Knights and Fray lings. This farm, 

 as now arranged, contains thirty acres of grass land : — Grammar's 

 Close, Ten Acres, Beard's Ground. 



Opposite this farm is an old house falling into ruins, the property 

 of Mrs. Sevier, of Maisemore Lodge, Gloucester. On the chimney 

 outside are rudely cut the initials " J.H." and the date 1632. John 

 Hibbert resided in the parish at that time, and from the arrange- 

 ment of the house it evidently was once a substantial farm-house. 

 It is now converted into two cottages, one being used as the post 

 office, the other as a reading room. 



3. — Fox's purchase. A few yards further down the road we 

 reach an ancient farm-house, evidently four hundred years old, now 

 occupied by "William Hay ward, a descendant of the Sealys and 

 Benjamins, who rented the farm for over two hundred years. 

 This farm I believe to have been part of Mr. Fox's purchase, and 

 to have passed to Lord Holland, who sold it with the rest of his 

 estate in this parish to Earl Cowley. It consists of an ancient 

 house, out-offices and two hundred acres, a considerable portion 

 being arable. The following are the names of the fields : — Old 

 Maise, Broad Close, Five Acres, Brimble, Lounces Leazes, Little 

 North Field, Great North Field, Little Mead Plat, Great Sand 

 Furlong, Vines Ground, Great Bickmead, Part of Adye's, Great 

 Copse Thorn, Little Copse Thorn, Acre, Field Ground, Wet Land, 

 Field Grounds, Shadwell Ham, Little Shadwell, Great Linch, Little 

 Linch, Mead Hill, Field Ground, The Meadow. 



Church Farm, formerlybelonging to Bradenstoke Priory. Crossing 

 Jordan's Gutter again, through the sluice gate, we come to Church 

 Farm, known in the leases as Stratton's. This farm is approached 



