Sunday, May 5, 2013

5 May 2013: Sevington Victorian School

SUNDAY
Map outlining today's journey: Bath to Corsham via bus, Corsham to Sevington on foot, then back.
The bus drops me off in Corsham. I begin my six-mile walk up to Sevington.
Wiltshire County.
Biddestone, population 457. Grass field.
Yatton Keynell, population 745.
Yatton Keynell water tower.
Sevington, population 354.
Sevington Victorian School, founded 1849.
A Victorian teaching tool that displays the various stages of making newspaper from wood to pulp to paper.
The kitchen. The laundry room.
The parlor where the school mistress lived.
The garden.
The walk back.
A pheasant. A butterfly.
Waiting for the bus in Corsham.