184 MR. MILLER CHRISTY ON 
almost due south, continuing through Weston-Colville, West 
Wratting, Balsham, Horseheath, and Bartlow to Saffron Walden 
in Essex. Thence, still proceeding southerly, but a trifle more 
westerly, the boundary-line passes through Newport, Quendon, 
Rickling, and Farnham, to Stanstead Montfitchet. All these 
places are in Essex ; but, between the two last-named, a very small 
projecting portion of Hertfordshire is included. The boundary- 
line next proceeds in a south-easterly direction, passing through 
Essex, almost to Hatfield Broad-Oak, taking in a portion of 
Hatfield Forest and the Park Wood, near Barrington Hall, at 
which latter point the Oxlip-Area reaches its most southerly 
extension. From here, the boundary runs north-eastward to 
Great Easton, whenee it continues in an almost due easterly 
direction for about fourteen miles, passing just south of Lindsell 
and Great and Little Saling and through Panfield, to a point 
about two miles almost directly south from Halstead. From 
this point, the boundary-line turns sharply back, following 4 
semicircular course (which excludes Gosfield, Sible Hedingham, 
Castle Hedingham, and Gestingthorpe) to Belchamp Walter. 
There it ovce more turns sharply back, passing almost straight, 
and ina due westerly direction, for about eight miles, and ex- 
cluding Belchamp Otten, Ashen, and Birdbrook, near which last- 
named place it executes another semicircular curve, in the course 
of which it re-enters Suffolk near Haverhill. From near Keding- 
ton, the boundary-line proceeds through Poslingford, Shimpling; 
and Lavenham, to near Bildeston, thus passing almost straight 
(though with one slight projection to the south of Lavenham) in 
an almost due easterly direction for about seventeen miles. The 
Oxlip-Area extends some four or five miles still farther East, 
from Bildeston to near Willisham, but it would not, I believe, 
be correct to say that the boundary-line of that Area does 80; for 
I have reasons for thinking that the boundary-line (which [have 
not traced precisely at this point) here includes a projecting 
spur of the Oxlip-Area, having at its base a line drawn between 
the two places named and extending in a south-easterly direction 
across the country lying north-east from Hadleigh. From 
Willisham (near which place the Eastern District reaches its 
most easterly extension), the boundary-line continues in a more 
or less north-westerly direction through Barking and Great an 
Little Finborough, to near Harleston, where it turns almost 
