March 17, 1793
On friday last my Brother & I walked up to Bentely church, which is more than a mile from his house & on a considerable elevation of ground. From thence the prospect is good, & you see at a distance Cruxbury hill, Guild down, part of Lethe hill, Hind-head, & beyond it to the top of one of the Sussex downs. There is an avenue of aged yew-trees up to the church: & the yard, which is large, abounds with brick-tombs covered with slabs of stone: of these there are ten in a row, belonging to the family of the Lutmans. The church consists of three ailes, & has a squat tower containing six bells. From the inscriptions it appears that the inhabitants live to considerable ages. There are hob-grounds along on the north side of the turn-pike road, but none on the south towards the stream. The whole district abounds with streams. The largest spring on my brother’s farm issues out of the bank in the meadow, just below the terrace. Some body formerly was pleased with this fountain, & has, at no small expence bestowed a facing of Portland stone with an arch, & a pipe, thro’ which the water falls into a stone bason, in a perennial stream. By means of a wooden trough this spring waters some part of the cirucumjacent slopes. It is not so copious as Well head.
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