^ig The 3\Qatural Hiflory 
Eaflern-p^LXt BuUington-grem^ as I gather by its pointing, for 
itis not to befeen there, it having been ploughed down as well 
in thegreen^ as fieUs thereabout, as may be feen by the marks of 
the ridge and furrow yet remaining upon it ; whence I guefs it paf- 
fes on towards the two Baldens^ and fo for Wallingford ; going 
over the River at Benfon^ alias Benfington^ where it may be feen 
again running of the Church, and is there called by the name 
of Medlers'hank. 
29. If it be asked why this way 'twixt Wallengford and Alce^ 
Jier was laid fo crooked ? it is plain, 'twas for the convenience of 
taking Oxford m the way as occafion (liould ferve. For though I 
could not difcover the diverticulum tending toward Oxford m the 
way from Wallengford^ yet in the way from Alcejier it remains at 
fome places yet plain and evident, coming out of the main road 
about the Paridi of Beckley-, and pafTing more WeJIward through. 
Stovp-wood, and more particularly through the grounds ftill cal- 
led Principal (for that they were formerly the Principal Coppices 
before the dif-forrefting that Wood') where the way is to be feen 
entire and perfeft, having formerly been paved, as appears by a 
ditch cut through the bank, in a divifion of thefe grounds, where 
the ftones lie arch-wife in form of the bank.-, there being none nei- 
ther like them in the fields thereabouts. 
30. Coming almoft as far as Elsfield, where it is now deeply 
trenched between two hanht like fome part of Grimes-dike men- 
tioned above, it is broken down and difcontiniied, I fuppofe by 
ploughing, but points juft upon Heddington, whereof the hollow 
lane afcending into the Town, near Mr. Pawlings new Buildings, 
perhaps may be a part ; and the deep way between two green 
banks a little on this fide Heddingt on, znothtx\ and the hollow way 
on the brow of Heddington-hill, another piece of it. Out of 
which there feems alfo another way to have branched about the 
top of the hill, which paffing through the grounds 'twixt that 
and Marfion-lane, where it is plain to be feen, by its pointing (liews 
as if it once palfed the River above Holy-well Church, ftraight up- 
on St. Ones'" s, or the old Bellofitum, now Beaumont ; where about 
Thomas Rudburn in his Chronicon Hydenfe, fays, anciently before 
its reftoration by Mlfred, the Vniverfity was feated : Qude Vniver- 
fitasOy^omx quondam (fays he, having before difcourfed of its 
rejloration by Mlfred) erat extra Portam Borealem ejufdem Vrhi6^ isf 
erat 
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