18 JANUARY 1930, Page 28

Many holiday pilgrims find their way to the lonely Saxon

church of St. Peter's-on-the-Wall, built on the site of the Roman fort of Othona that guarded the Blackwater estuary. They, and others, will be glad to read the Rev: Herbert Broivn's very competent History of Bradwell-on-Sea; Essex (Chelmsford : J. H. Clarke, 6s.), which is based on the parish records, local knowledge and a good deal of research. A notable curate of Bradwell was Sir Henry Bate. Dudley, an early-if not the first-editor of the Morning Post and a very active man-about-town in George the Third's day. Beside the churchyard wall stands the parish constable's " cage," with a pillory attached to each door-post. It may be noted that the population of the parish is now smaller than it was in Bate Dudley's time.

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