aloud for a complete investigation and thorough planning. Another Cleeve Abbey, almost, is perhaps asking to be added to our national treasures. UPHILL (D ., Opopille—? Hubbds Creek: cf. Pylle, Pille=creek. The Knoll close by explains the popular corruption).—The only thing “uphill” is the remains of the originally Norman church on the end of the knoll. There is a ferry (6d.) across the Axe to Brean Down. The chief interest of Uphill is purely antiquarian. It is fairly certain that under the name of Axium this was the harbour from which much of the produce of the Roman lead mines on Mendip was exported. The land route was by the road which has been traced for fifty-five miles from Uphill to Old Sarum, near Salisbury. It is a pretty piece of road between Bleadon Hill, practically Mendip end, and the sea flats. Just beyond Bleadon village a bridge crosses the Axe, and a minute later on the left Crook’s Peak opens up, as it looks across to the group of pines that marks out Bleadon Down. BANWELL {? pers. name, and well).—About five miles E. of Weston is Banwell; but the most effective way to see this picturesque village leaning up against its island hillock is to approach it from the N. across I he flats, when there comes into view a noble lofty church and an old turreted building to the E. of it. I Unwell is quite rich in interest: it has, besides the < Imrch and old manor-house, a prehistoric camp, a I ruck way, called a Roman road, a mysterious turf i mss, and some caves. It is, moreover, the site of a Saxon monastery given by Alfred to Asser, like < nngrcsbury. The church is fine. Its tower, with