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run in the ditch of the WANS DYKE, the rampart of which is 

 very conspicuous where the road turns at the bottom of the hill. 



At GREAT BEDWYN lunch was ready in the school, and after 

 that had been disposed of the stately CHURCH — unfortunately a 

 good deal over-restored years ago — with its Norman arcades, and 

 monuments, was inspected, under Mr. Ponting's guidance ; and 

 then the party started again for WULFHALL, where they arrived 

 somewhat before the time appointed — probably an event unique in 

 the history of the Society's excursions. Here the scanty remnant 

 of the historical BARN", in which the wedding festivities of Henry 

 Till, and Jane Seymour were celebrated (if, indeed the existing 

 building is any of it of that date), was visited, and made by Mr. 

 Dor an Webb the text on which he told many interesting stories 

 connected with the family history of the place. " The LAUNDRY," 

 a singularly picturesque brick building, with a telling group of 

 chimneys of a type common enough in Elizabethan buildings in 

 Shropshire and elsewhere, but not often seen in Wiltshire, was also 

 visited and admired before the time arrived for tea, in the modern 

 house, above it, to which Lord and Lady Frederick Bruce had 

 most kindly invited the Members of the Society. So pleasantly 

 ended the Marlborough Meeting of 1894 — a meeting which was 

 voted most successful by all who took part in it, and which was 

 certainly notable for the unexpected excellence of the weather — the 

 efficiency of the guidance at the hands of Messrs. Doran Webb and 

 Ponting — and the remarkable character of the local collections 

 exhibited by Mr. Brooke. 



E. H. Gr. 



