Thursday, August 24
Snorri's Pool
Images are of photographs taken by Martin Stott in July 2013 during a William Morris Society expedition which retraced the route of Morris's 1871 and 1873 journeys.

‘A cold raw morning when I went out to bathe in Snorri’s Bath, so that I felt grateful for the hot water up to my middle. The said bath is a round one sunk in the earth some twelve feet diameter, lined & paved with smooth cut stones cemented with bitumen; there is a groove cut from it to the hot-spring (Skrifla) which is some hundred yards off, and can be turned off by a single dam into another channel, so that you can have the water as hot or as cool as you will . . .’ (IJ p 163).