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Amongst the notables who held the vicarage ywere Keginala 
Pole, afterwards Cardinal, in the reign of Henry \ 111 ., and John 
Draper, the last Prior of Twynham, until A.D. 1552. 
The party then motored to the Church of St. John Baptist 
at Bere Regis, another ancient church exhibiting 
styles of architecture, from the Norman to the 
It consists of a chancel, nave, aisles, south 
embattled western tower, and was restored by Mr. 
30 years ago. 
The. magnificent roof, with its bold carvings, 
have been the gift of Cardinal Morton to the place of 
birth and boyhood. The church contains the tombs ^ of 
Tubervilles, now made famous by Mr. Hardy s novel, less 
the D’Urbervilles. ” 
traces of all 
Tudor period, 
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The party were grateful to Mr. Brownen for his lucid and 
interesting descriptions of all the places visited. After a welcome 
tea at the Drax Hall, the return journey was made at the dost 
of a fine summer day. 
A Cruise in On Thursday, June 12th, a delightful day was 
Poole Harbour. spent by 59 members in a cruise in the Lake¬ 
land of Dorset, under the able and genial 
guidance of Mr. Harry Pouncy, Assistant Secretary of the Dorset 
Field Club. The party were met at the Tramway Terminus by 
Mr. Pouncy, who conducted them to the Customs House steps, 
and on the way he discoursed, in his usual versatile manner, on 
the old bits of Poole along the route—the Georgian Town Hall, 
the almshouses of St. George’s Guild, the old Merchant Houses, 
the Town Cellars, and the Customs House, with the panelled 
effigy of Benjamin Skutt. Motor-boats awaited their arrival at 
the steps, and soon they were on the way up the Ware ham 
Channel, passing en route the Hamworthy Potteries and Doulton’s 
Clay Works, to Russel Quay, Attewelle, where they debarked. 
A halt was made for a few minutes, when Mr. Pouncy gave a 
brief sketch of the Harbour—referring to its geography, geology, 
natural history, and reminiscences of its interesting past history. 
A short walk across the heath brought them to the pretty hamlet 
of Arne. Here they climbed the beacon, surmounted with its 
ancient tumulus and thickly clad in bracken. 
A splendid view of the harbour, with its five islands, was 
obtained, and here a halt was made for lunch. 
The famous heronry, or “ cranery ” as it is locally called, 
lies about a mile to the west in the plantations. 
The party then retraced their steps back to the village and 
inspected the simple Early English Church, with its three-light 
east window, from which there is a charming view of the inland 
waters, its rough adze-hewn roof timbers and its pre-Reformation 
altar-slab of a shelly limestone with the five consecration crosses. 
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