Fivehead, a parish 5 m.  S.W. of Langport.  The church has two Dec. windows in the chancel, the rest are Perp.  There is a 16th-cent. tomb of John Walshe, and an ancient Norm. font with double mouldings.  Note in the S. aisle (1) piscina, (2) remains of canopy.  The manor house, the home of the Walshes, now a farm, preserves the old hall.

Flax Bourton, a parish 5 m.  S.W. of Bristol (with a station), is said to owe the first part of its name to the abbey of Flaxley in Gloucestershire, which possessed the principal estate in the parish.  The small Perp. church is noteworthy for the 12th-cent.  Norm. work preserved in it, which consists of (1) a S. door, exceptionally tall and narrow, with banded pillars and a quaint carving of St Michael and the Dragon; (2) a chancel arch, recessed, with curious carvings on the chamfer of the abacus and on the capitals.  Note also (1) terminals of the label of the S. chancel windows, (2) font.

Foxcote (or Forscote) is a small hamlet 2 m.  E.N.E. of Radstock.  The church is modern, with the exception of the tower.

Freshford, a village near the confluence of the Frome and Avon (with a station), 5 m.  S.E. of Bath.  The church is Perp., with a W. tower. Freshford Manor House once belonged to the priory of Hinton Charterhouse.

[Illustration:  MARKET PLACE, FROME]

FROME, a thriving market town of some 11,000 inhabitants, on the E. side of the county, with a station on the G.W.R. line to Weymouth.  Though its surroundings are pretty, the town itself is an ill-arranged collection of steep and narrow streets, one of which—­Cheap Street—­deserves notice for its quaintness.  The spaciousness of the market-place redeems the narrowness of the streets.  With the exception of a little faint-hearted sympathy shown to Monmouth, Frome has never helped to make history.  Nowadays it does a brisk trade in woollen cloth, and possesses some large printing-works, breweries, and art-metal works.  The visitor would do well to make his way at once to the church, which is practically the only thing in Frome worth seeing.  It is a building of much greater dignity within than the exterior suggests, and has been restored on a very elaborate scale by a former incumbent, the Rev. W.J.  Bennett (1852-66), a figure of note in the early Ritualistic controversies.  The tower, crowned with a spire, is somewhat eccentricly placed at the E. end of the S. aisle.  The interior is remarkable for its heterogeneous mixture of styles and its multitude of side chapels, of which St Nicholas’s, the Lady Chapel, and St John Baptist’s are on the N., and St Andrew’s on the S. A Saxon church was built on the site by St Aldhelm, and possibly a couple of carved stones built into the interior of the tower may have belonged to it.  This was succeeded in the 12th cent. by a Norm. church, of which a doorway remains, leading from St Nicholas’s Chapel to the Lady Chapel, and perhaps a piscina opposite