The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1885-08-25 00:00:00

BRAE 11.1018.
DORART N4TIIRAI, NIRTORY AND ANTI.
QUARIAN 17SLR CLUB.

The member, of this club and their friends, to the
number id over Tn, incleideng the president, secretary,
treasurer, Sir Tenses 11.,keer lyiewpreeeident), ‘tessr-e.
W. B. Barrett., W. Cello', %ewe M. and A. Cif..,
Edward Cennington, C. W. Babe, F. Filliter, T. It.
Gres, C 1 1 and. en I , If. Lawton, M. 1). ,
Lawton, Gnome May., H. B. 3,liddleteen,
Motile, Mins Payne, W. Peeuney, Revs. .T. Acten,
Canon I:nem, W. Gresley.J. F. Langford. R. P.
Murray, If. E. Ravenhill, W. C. Browne, Rev. \V.
Kendall, Mr. FT. Lye Mn.. I.ye, Miss Lys, Miseve
tlrabhain (2).
Allen, George Bible, Cherie% Reverent, F.. T. Redden,
Mrs. Idingford. Colonel Allen. Med.
H. Armstrong, Mr. Sweitfielel, and many ether., met
at the parish church of Hire Regis, .en Wednesday,
19th init., at 11.4 Te, where, under the cool and grate.
ful nhade of the, trew in the churchyard. the Rev. .1.
F. Langford read an able and instructive paper. on
that most interesting edifice. Several interpretation'
ed the name Bete were discussed, that most generally
approved being the one which derives it from an
ancient word, signifying wood, or wesnllande The
objects specially noted an 14 great interest in this
paper Were then examined and the church thoroughly
explored, its beautiful and almost melee,. roof being
specially admired. A most useful printed sheet had
been prepared by Mr. Langford containing a note een
all the objects of interest an the Church. Come. of
this were previously distributor' among the party, whee
found them of great use and were mu ich ndebted to
the vicar for the kind paine he had taken to enable
them more thoroughly and speedily to find out and
examine the church'. numeroun points of intereet.
From Beni I hutch the party ascended the steep slope
to the ancient British camp, Woodbury-hill. where
A sheet paper Was read by the treasurer (Rev. 0. P.
Cambridge), noting its principal points of antiquarian
interest, gathered chiefly from Warne'. " Ancient
Dorset," and giving a description of the great
annual fair held there in September, comparing
its eelden proceedings, testing from seven to ten
days, with the one or twee day. to which it has
now dwindled. A short dincuesi.en ennued on the
repletion whether this spot la the Ancient lbernium of
the Rowell., known to have been somewhere not far
from this, and at about the same dintancew Woodbury
Hill is from Durneevarie I Dorchester), and Vindeglada
(eseinewhere in the Wimborne eer Gummier region).
That it is the real lbennum wan thought to be the
better opinion. From Weelhury Hill Here Wood
Was entered, the fine view from the hill being in some
peints still more striking from the ridge traversed
between it and the. wuurl. A coil and shadowy teeth
of about a mile and a hall through this wood brought
the. party to Bound ask, where a few minutes' halt
WA. made, just to examine and admire its site and age
and yet vigorous appearance, and to hear that there
was literally nothing to he heard or said shout it.
Thin tree marks the boundetry between Bevy and Who-
worth. whow pretty_ gray perish church was now
quickly reached. Here. the Rector (Rev. 0. P.
Cam)iridge) read a few notes upon the structure, int
ancient -doorway and bells, 0110 ilf which—the tenor
bell--had bran taken down by one of the reader's an-
cestors, at the end of the last century, under a plea
that it was cracked, and might be utilised to
repair the church; the proceed., however, being
(except alout IN.) laid out in a new brewing copper
in that sine ancestor's brewhouse at Bloxworth
Nfanorhouw. The church haying been examined
inside and "lit, special notice, being taken of its ancient
hourglass awl stand, and a curious epitaph on the
tomb of or. Witatewl, rector in 11191, and it being
now peat 3 p.m., it was nut without feelings of much
satinfaction that the wearied, hungry, and thirsty
!seekers after science fund themselves on the shady
lawn at Bine werth Rectory, in the welcome,
lereeence of an abundance of sandwiches, bread, ammo,
ens, cakes, etc., and copious libations of light
claret, cider, ginger beer, ale, and milk. The inner
man refreshed, business was resumed by the election
of two new members,_ Rev. W. C. Brown, rector of
Tynehem D
and Mr. a, B,IIOIIIMo We Bourne-
mouth. The examination of the. Rev. 0, P. Cain.
bridge's museum now afforded theme interested
in such pursuits a treat not often ebtained. Among
other special oleo*, ,if interest, or. Cembridlte ex•
hibited a specimen elf • small blue butterfly captured
the previenin evening on 111,exweerth Heath hy his wen,
Cherie.' Owen, and, undoubtedly, if • ',peeled new to
Britain, ninon eacertained to lee Pal numrnatus fyladra,
Pall., in inhabitant of Southern and Central Europe,
(Another example. of this new adelitinn to the Britinh
Fauna hese since been taken near the name spot by
Arthur W. P. Cambridge). Twee living examples also
of a rare and load snake (enmnel(n buns, found nnly
on heath, in the South of England) we.o. exhibited,
Smut perhaps to an admiring, though certainly to an
enervated. crowd, their slender forma and character-
istic !perkinge being shown to much advantage by Mr.
Cunning-ton, who, according to old Isaac Wa)tgm's
injunction, handled them an though he toyed them.
Being, however, quite innocuous, neither Mr. Ciin.
ningten nor the company assembled appeared to suffer
any harm. Time, however, began now to preen on
apace, and even such superlative ettractioneas alMde rs
10 inches &ernes and eicerpiona ? inches lung have at
length to he wend from, and anon a general exeedes
from the pleasant shades of Blexworth Rept wy reek
place, some of the party walking liaok to Here',, mode
for the Wool station, ethers wending their way home-
ward in their own or their friends' vehicles; and thus,
at about 11 p.m., closed a very enjoyable and successful
field day, neither let nor hindered by a single hitch in
carrying out to the letter an attractive pnerranune,
few which, if the weather had been specially bespoken,
it could nee have been more suited to the day's work,
nor more delightful.