Note 408 — NOVEMBER.
Reading edition
Gentleman’s Magazine.
[409] There is a very old stanza known here, which though it gives no favourable mention of Clack, couples many surrounding places well known—
“White Cliff—Pepper Cliff—Cliff and Cliff Ancey, Lyneham and lo—e Clack, C—se Malford[411] and Dauncey.”
[410] A native of this part, and at the top of Merry-Andrewism.
[411] Christian Malford, no doubt, was a bad ford for the monks that came down the Avon to the surrounding abbeys.