THE ESSEX FIELD CLUB. 



Meeting in the Theydons, Stapleford Tawney, etc. 



Saturday, May 2Sth, 1892. 



DIRECTORS. — Rev. Lewis N. Prance, M.A. ; C. B. Swofder ; David 

 Houston, F.L.S. ; Walter Crouch, F.Z.S. ; I. Chalkley Gould, and 

 G. E. Pritchett, F.S.A. 



npHE Hundred of Ongar consists of twenty-six parishes, nearl}' all extremely 

 -*■ rural in character, and of these the route chosen for the afternoon's excur- 

 sion led the visitors through eight. Starting from Loughton Station about three 

 o'clock, the members were driven through perhaps the prettiest parts of that 



Theydon Gaunon Church (Winter). 

 From a Drawing by H. A. Cole. 



parish, past Loughton Hall and the little memorial church of St. Nicholas, into 

 England's Lane, by the charming hamlet of Debden Green (where a specimen of 

 the little " Beech Hook-lip " moth, Drepana /.';/^?«(7//(/, was observed), and so through 

 the avenue across Theydon Bois Green. 



The weather was delightful, a somewhat strong breeze tempering the warmth 

 of the brilliant sunshine. \'^ery welcome were the sweet odours of profusion of 

 " May " blossoms and opening tree buds, the almost magical luxuriance of the 

 hedgerows, winding through miles upon miles of broad upland meadows which 



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