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THE ESSEX FIELD CLUB. 



This interesting and important meeting concluded, Mr. Buxton continued his 

 demonstrations, and ultimately the carriages were resumed at the Chigwell Roav 

 " Recreation Ground," which abuts on the new Hainhault. The rain commenced, 

 and continued the whole way home. 



[It should be mentioned that a large informal meeting was held on the previous 

 day, and much of the ground traversed by members of the County Council and 

 others whose engagements j^revented their attendance on the Saturday. Mr. 

 Buxton then also acted as leader and demonstrator. The rain was persistent 

 during the whole afternoon, and the site of the marquee on Cabin Plain and the 

 ground around was literally flooded.] 



VISIT TO PLESHEY AND TERLING PLACE. 



Tuesday, June 17TH, 1902. 



This meeting was intended to afford an opportunity of seeing the ver\- 

 interesting village of Pleshey and to take advantage of the kind invitation from 

 J^oid and Lady Rayleigh to visit them at Terling Place. 



PLAN OF THE PLESHEY EARTHWORKS. 

 From the Ordnance Survey Map (scale 6 inches=i mile). 



The assembly was called at 10 o'clock at Chelmsford Railway Station, where 

 brakes were waiting. The j:)arty was comparatively small, owing to^the rainy 

 weather of the past week or ten days. The cond'ictors were Mr. Chalkle}^ Gould 

 and Mr. Miller Christy, F.L.S. ; Dr. Laver, who was to have given his valuable 

 services, was unfortunately detained at Colchester by professional work. 



The rain held off during the very pleasant ride through the villages of Broom- 

 field, Great Waltham, and so along a by-road to Pleshey. The country looked 

 very bright and fresh, and there was an abundance of early summer] way-side 

 flowers. The luxuriant foliage of the trees and hedges, especially characteristic of 

 the present summer, was everywhere recognised with delight. 



Pleshey has evidently been a settlement from the very earliest times. Accord- 

 ing to Mr. Horace Round, the name comes from old French Plaisseis, meaning an 

 enclosure with pales closely interlaced. The great entrenchment which surrounds 

 the village is probably British (T. V. Holmes, Essex Xat. x., 151), but the period 



