Identifier: topographicalsur02robe (find matches)
Title: A topographical survey of the great road from London to Bath and Bristol. : With historical and descriptive accounts of the country, towns, villages, and gentlemen's seats on and adjacent to it...
Year: 1792 (1790s)
Authors: Robertson, Archibald
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Publisher: London: : Printed for the author... and William Faden...
Contributing Library: Boston Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Boston Public Library

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It is situate on the point of a high hill, 42 SURVEY OF THE GREAT ROAD FROM commanding all the country, and is double ditched on the south and north sides, with very deep trenches. It has two entrances from the south-east to the plain, and from the north-east to Eddingdon, both guarded by a redoubt: on the west side is a spring. It is oval, three hundred and fifty paces long, by near two hundred broad, and its area twenty-three or twenty-four acres. —Near the middle, is a large oblong barrow, sixty paces long; under which have been found many human skulls, and bones, mixed with stags horns, fragments of urns, and pieces of iron weapons; and millstones, like the modern Scotch quernes, sixteen and eighteen inches diameter. Under the south side, within the trenches, is a circular mound of earth, made in the 11 last century, called the Table, with a kind of horseshoe in the centre. The soil of this hill is chalk, abounding with petrefactions, belemnites, spines of echini,« &c.
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LONDON TO BATH AND BRISTOL. 43 Proceeding from the foot of the Downs,we leave the village of Cherhill to the right, built on a flat, surrounded by a rich cultivated country, well supplied with wood. From hence, a road turns to the right, and leads to Compton House. COMPTON HOUSE. This is a handsome white mansion, the seat of J. W. Henneage, Esq. situated about a mile and a half to the north-east of Calne. It stands pleasantly, on a sloping lawn, commanding a fine park, with extensive views towards the west; on the south, the town of Calne appears, Bowood forming the background; and on the north, ridges of Downs rise to view. The park is plentifully supplied with wood, and is adorned by groups of stately trees: it is surrounded by a rich and fertile country, producing corn in plenty, and excellent pasture for cattle. 44 SURVEY OF THE GREAT ROAD FROM A little beyond Cherhill, on the left of Cummerford Common, near the Bath road, stands Blacklands, the residence of Maundrel, Esq. a handsome stone ho

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