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Hoare and subsequently by Mr. Scrope. From this point the 

 Members walked along the lane, which is said to be an ancient 

 British trackway, to the junction of the Sherston, Littleton Drew, 

 j and Alderton Roads, where the carriages again met them and went 

 I on to NETTLETON CHURCH, which is full of interest, the noble 

 tower with panelled belfry stage and perforated slabs in the belfry 

 windows giving it a very rich appearance. This and the north 

 porch are the most conspicuous external features, whilst internally 

 the Norman font, the stone pulpit (entered by a special staircase 

 in the wall), and more especially the nave arcade, the capitals of 

 which are a kind of imitation Norman, of fourteenth century date, 

 are worthy of notice. 



WEST KINGTON CHURCH, the next place visited, has another 

 tower of the same type as Yatton Keynell and Nettleton — with 

 1 panelled belfry stage — a type elsewhere rare in Wiltshire. The 

 Church itself has been re-built, and the only thing of special 

 interest is the pulpit of oak, from which Bishop Latimer preached. 

 Proceeding down the steep side of the combe to the village below, 

 I on foot, the party again joined the carriages and drove on to NORTH 

 . WRAXALL CHURCH, where a fine Norman doorway (with a modern 

 figure in the centre of the tympanum) and a curious heraldic 

 pedigree on the ceiling of the Methuen Chapel of 1795 are among 

 the chief objects of interest. From here the road lay through the 

 remarkably beautiful scenery about Ford — with a distant view of 

 j Bury Camp—to BIDDESTON, where the CHURCH, with its Norman 

 ! doorway and font and picturesque bell-turret, was inspected before 

 I the party adjourned to the MANOR HOUSE, where they were most 

 j kindly received by Mr. and Mrs, Blake, tea being laid out in the 

 j hall, and the whole of the house, with its fine panelled rooms and 

 i fireplaces, of the seventeenth century, thrown open to the visitors. 

 ' Before leaving Mr. Medlicott expressed the thanks of the Society 

 I to the host and hostess for this unexpected and much-appreciated 

 hospitality. 



j Corsham was reached about 7 o'clock, after as pleasant a day, 

 ! perhaps, as the Society has ever spent. The weather was lovely— 

 I it was neither too hot nor too cold ; the times had been excellently 



