Beyond the village, just before the road winds upwards towards Spye
Park, is Bewley Court, an interesting old farm, with trefoil windows
and Gothic entrance door of fine proportions. Its hall is intact, having
its wide open fireplace and open timber roof with carved beams. A
reed-grown canal, with one of those queer hand drawbridges, serves
as the moat of yore. Bewley by some is corrupted into "Brewery," for
close by there is such an establishment, and the ancient name has
become submerged. There are said to have been four Courts
originally belonging to Lacock Abbey, but this is the only remaining
one.