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thanks of the participants to tlioir liost and hostess were appro- 

 priately expressed by Mr. Littleboy, the river Ver, on which 

 Kedbourn liury is situated, was followed as far as Bow Bridge, 

 where the river is crossed by the Redbourn Boad, which was then 

 taken towards St. Albans. It was soon however left for the more 

 pleasant fields ; and, passing through what once were the gardens 

 of cottages, now long untenanted, the river's side was again 

 reached. A short stroll along its banks brought the party to 

 Kingsbury, and after resting there awhile the Ver was again 

 followed along the picturesque " Water "Walk " to the St. Albans 

 Station of the London and North-Western Railway. 



Field Meeting, 25Tn June, 1879. 

 Tewin "Water, Digswell, and Ayot Green, AVelwyn. 



A central locality was this year chosen for the annual whole-day 

 Field Meeting, in view of the extension and change of name of the 

 Society, to enable members from all parts of the county to take 

 part in it. Members of the Luton j^atural History Society had 

 also been invited to be present, so that, had the weather been 

 favourable, a large attendance might fairly have been expected. 

 There was, however, no cessation in the morning of the rain 

 which had been falling almost continuously the previous day ; 

 indeed, with few exceptions, daily throughout the month ; and 

 owing doubtless to the prospect of a thoroughly wet day, but six 

 members of the Luton Society and about three times that number 

 of the Watford Society were present. 



The locality was also chosen for the beauty and variety of its 

 scenery. " To say that Digswell is the prettiest place in Hertford- 

 shire," remarks our county historian, Mr. Cussans,* "may be 

 considered a bold assertion, but it would indeed be difficult, through- 

 out the whole of the county of Hertford, so renowned for the beauty 

 of its scenery, to find another spot where wood and water, hill and 

 plain, are more picturesquely combined;" and those members 

 who, on this occasion, assembled at AVelwyn station at lialf-past 

 eleven, would doubtless, notwithstanding the almost complete 

 realisation of the forebodings of the morning, fully endorse this 

 statement. 



Descending the hill into the beautiful valley of the Mimram, and 

 then taking the road towards Hertford, the first place visited was 

 an extensive gravel-pit excavated in the hill-side to the south of 

 Tewin Water. The section here seen shows the presence of an 

 outlier of the Woolwich and Reading Series (represented by sandy 

 beds and mottled clay), reposing upon the Chalk, and overlaid by a 

 gravel most probably of glacial origin. 



At a short distance farther on the Hertford road a footpath across 

 some fields soon brought the party to Tew in Water, remains of the 



* 'History of Hertfordshire -Broadwater Hundred,' p. 251. — 1877. 



