Transcribed from the 1908? edition, by David Price.
A SENTIMENTAL & PRACTICAL
GUIDE TO AMESBURY AND
STONEHENGE, COMPILED
BY LADY ANTROBUS
DEDICATED TO MY MOTHER
GEORGINA ALICIA SARTORIS
TENTH THOUSAND
ESTATE OFFICE: AMESBURY, WILTS
PREFACE.
In compiling this little Guide Book, I have somewhat departed from the ordinary lines, but I venture to hope that the traveller to Amesbury and Stonehenge will not like it the worse on that account. I am much indebted to the kindness of Mrs. Gordon and of Messrs. Murray, Barclay, Story Maskelyne, and Hewitt, for allowing me to quote from their works, also to the Editor of the Ladies’ Realm, for permission to use an article by me which appeared in the February number of that magazine, and, above all, to Miss Clarisse Miles, for the charming photographs which illustrate my book.
Florence Caroline Mathilde Antrobus.
Amesbury Abbey,
Salisbury, 1900.
GUIDE TO AMESBURY AND STONEHENGE.
Leaving Salisbury by what is called the “Upper Road” to Amesbury, one travels across a tract of bleak and rather uninteresting downs. About two miles from Salisbury (on the left) Old Sarum stands up conspicuously, and is the only object of interest till one arrives at Amesbury, eight miles distant from Salisbury. Amesbury calls itself a town, and boasts of several shops and the telegraph. A railway station is in process of construction. In Aubrey’s times Amesbury was celebrated for its tobacco pipes, marked with a gauntlet, the name of the maker. Of these, several specimens are to be found in the museum at Salisbury.
Returning to Salisbury from Amesbury, and taking “the Bourne” route, there is a beautiful drive winding along the banks of the Avon. I give a short account of the most interesting places the traveller meets with on his homeward journey.