Patron, John Marsden, Esq. About half a mile beneath the town, on a fertile plain, are the buried remains of a Roman Villa, called Kirk Sink, from a tradition that some great ecclesiastical edifice had here been swallowed up. It was dug into, about 70 years ago, and the frame of a tessellated pavement discovered at that time, of which Dr. Whitaker had seen some remains, which induced him to apply for permission to open the ground again. But the walls had been so completely grubbed up to the foundation, that though it was just possible to ascertain the size of the apartments, which had been very small, no masses of cohering pavement could be taken up, and the whole lay in heaps mingled with mortar, consisting of cubes of various colours, some an inch, others not more than half an inch in diameter, together with floor tiles, of about three inches square. Information on the following places in this Parish is contained on a supplementary page.
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