View of Rugbourne Farm

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As Rotcombe Lane starts to go uphill there is a stile on the right. Cross the stile and then bear left keeping the hedge on your left. Walk up to the brow of the hill and then head for the stile in the hedgerow. The buildings on the left were part of Mearns Pit which operated from 1783 to 1817. Just before the stile, look right to the double roofed building. This is Rugbourne Farm. William Smith, the 'Father of English Geology' lived there when employed to
supervise the work on the Somerset Coal Canal until 1799.
Cross the stile and walk down the hill to a metal stile and then up the hill to Amesbury.