VOL. XIX. (2) EXCURSION—BRIMPSFIELD AND ELKSTONE 
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EXCURSION TO BRIMPSFIELD AND ELKSTONE. 
Tuesday, July iith, 1916. 
[Directors : The President and Rev. T. S. Tonkinson) 
The district chosen for the third Field Meeting was almost entirely new 
to the Members as a Club, for Elkstone was the only place which had been 
visited before — as far back as 1873. Owing to the general wish of the Club 
that the meetings arranged should not in any way divert requirements of 
war service, the use of motors has been discontinued, but while horse con- 
veyances take longer to cover the journeys from place to place there is com- 
pensation in the greater pleasure in travelling, and the better opportunity 
for conversation and observation of scenery. For this meeting the majority 
of the Members gathered at Gloucester Station (G.W.R.), and at 10.45 started 
in brakes for Climperwell, travelling by way of Brockworth and Cranham 
Woods, meeting near Boston’s Ash the President and others who had cycled. 
Those present were : — The President, Christopher Bowly and Charles 
Upton (Vice-Presidents), F. H. Bretherton, H. W. Bruton, Roland Austin 
(Acting Hon. Secretary), F. J. Cullis, J. M. Dixon, Lieut.-Col. Duke, T. S. 
Ellis, G. Embrey, E. W. Fyffe, J. W. Gray, J. W. Haines, F. Hannam-Clark, 
J. H. Jones, H. H. Knight, E. Lawrence, E. P. Little, Surgeon-Major I. 
Newton, A. S. Montgomrey, E. C. Sewell, W. Thompson, L. Wilkin and 
some visitors. 
Soon after noon those driving reached the point near the cross roads, 
where the President and others were waiting. Here the President drew 
attention to the remains of a Round Barrow in a field on the Cranham side 
of the main road, and exhibited a grinding stone or “ mill ” and a piece of 
hand-made pottery taken from the Barrow during excavation in 1881 and 
presented to Mr Baddeley by Mr C. T. Davis, son of the late Mr Uriah Davis, 
of Painswick. The prehistoric hand “ mill ” bears traces of much ancient 
use. Reference was also made to the long West Tump in the wood nearer 
to Birdlip and to the round one in Buckholt Wood. There are also two 
round Tumuli at Climperwell itself, and from a wooded slope dominating the 
landscape in the direction of Miserden Park a view was obtained of the Long 
Barrow near Caudle Green. 
Moving on, the carriages turned to the left and descended to Climperwell 
Bottom, a secluded spot which probably few except pedestrians visit. Here 
the President, by whose happy suggestion the visit was included in the 
programme, said that the place-name Climperwell had been traced back to 
“ dumpers ” — clods on the newly ploughed ground — and the sense may be 
“ the well among the dumpers.” The first mention of the place-name occurs 
in 1227, when the Manor, with part of Brimpsfield, was given to the Cistercian 
.\bbey of Flaxley by the Giffards of Brimpsfield. 
An al iresco lunch was then taken, after which most of the members 
walked through the woods, permission having been very kindly granted by 
Mrs Wait, on behalf of Major H. W. K. Wait, who is on service in France. 
On their return, the brakes proceeded up the ancient Rudgeway leading to 
Brimpsfield, which was reached punctually at 2.15. Here the Vicar, the 
Rev. P. C. W. Ear6e, and many of the villagers, including the parish clerk — 
one of the old type — were waiting to welcome the Club. 
Standing near the Fosse, which is all that remains of Brimpsfield Castle, 
the President gave a most interesting account of the Manor and Castle, 
which were held by the powerful family of Giffard. Mr Baddeley said : — 
That a glance at the map would show the baronial as well as the 
topographical significance of the Castle at Brimpsfield. They had already 
