By consulting a map of 1748 reproduced elsewhere on this blog, it becomes clear that to walk to church Beddome would have left the manse and crossed the Windrush by means of one of four low stone bridges, presumably the most convenient one, almost next to the manse. On the other side of the Windrush, he would not turn west towards the parish church but east until he came to a left hand turn that would take him past William Snooke's grand house to the meeting house, opposite a piece of land owned by the Burfords.
If he was preaching in Stow that day, no doubt he would have saddled his horse, and this time not turned left but carried on to the nearby Roman Road, the Fosse Way, where he would have ridden north easterly the four miles or so, across the Eye and the Dikler, to Stow and the chapel on Sheep Street.
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