Old Cleeve Abbey is a ruin in a romantic valley, now turned into a farm-house and outbuildings. There are the remains of some handsome doors and windows, and a roof with the rafters forming segments of semicircles meeting at the summit, and without any cross ties whatever. Among numerous aged thorns and fruit trees, there are a sycamore and a walnut, apparently of great age, of which Mr. Babbage has furnished us with the following dimensions. "Sycamore (Acer Pseudo-Platanus), 17 ft. in circumference, at 2 ft. from the ground; the length of trunk, 7 ft., from which spring a series of branches from 4 ft. 6 in. to 7 ft. in circumference; one branch extends in nearly a horizontal direction 51 ft. in length. This tree contains 440 cubic feet. "Walnut (Juglans regia) 14 ft. in circumference, at 4 ft. from the ground; length of trunk, 9 ft., from which spring three brunches, measuring respectively 9 ft. 4 in., 9 ft., and 8 ft. in circumference. The branches extend all round about 45 ft. from the trunk, forming a circle of 270 ft. "Another walnut is 11 ft. in circumference at 4 ft. high; and a third is 9 ft. 3 in. in circumference at 4 ft. high."
