If we prefer the walk we can take a footpath by the bridge or the Bell Tower, and follow the winding stream to this point.

According to the old chronicles a church was built at Hampton, in the reign of Canute, by Leofric and Godiva, so well known in the regions of romance, and they gave land here to the Abbey.

The church we see was built and rebuilt by the Monastery, but whether on the ancient site we know not.

It is a small but beautiful example of perpendicular architecture, and with the dark spreading yew tree, the remains of the old cross, and the delicately weathered tombstones, it makes a picture upon which the eye dwells with calm satisfaction.
The hill above the ferry is Clark's Hill, and the bank we are told was terraced by the monks of old as a vineyard.

Whether tradition is true to facts we cannot surely say; a field beyond the ridge still bears the name of the vineyard, and this may have been the actual site.