00llj0p^ ^atttralists' Ji^ltr Club, 



August 20th, 1883. 



CAYNHAM CAMP AND TITTEESTONE CLEE HILL. 



Retirement, rural quiet, friendship, books, 

 Ease and alternate labour, useful life, 

 Progressive virtue and approving Heaven. 



Such are the fascinations attributed by the Ludlow Handbook " to the beauties 

 of Nature lavished around within ten miles of the town." Beautiful, certainly, 

 the scenery is. Ludlow itself, its castle, its church, and the walks on Whitcliff, 

 are sufiBciently attractive, and the interest in the country around is exceedingly 

 diversified and beautiful. A Club Field Meeting at Ludlow is always appreciated, 

 and the members of the Woolhope Club rarely pass a year without going there for 

 some object or other. 



The meeting this year was a joint one vnth the Malvern Club, and at the 

 station at Hereford the Woolhope members welcomed the arrival of Mr. Henry 

 Wilson, the Malvern President, with the Rev. I. Gregory Smith and his sons 

 Masters Arthur and Basil Smith, Colonel Twynam, Messrs. W. Barkley, E. R. 

 C. Hayes, E. L. Lakin, and G. H. Williamson, with Mrs. Taylor. 



The Woolhope members present at the meeting were: The President, 

 Mr. G. H. Piper ; the Revds. W. Bowell, Godfrey Buckle, C. Burrough, Dr. 

 Robert Dixon and Master Charles S. Dixon, E. R. Firmstone, J. E. Grasett, 

 H. B. D. Marshall, A. Palmer, H. W. Phillott, David Price, and H. W. Tweed ; 

 Drs. Bull and Chapman ; Major Doughty ; Captains Kerr, R.E., and Morgan, 

 RE.; Messrs. H. G. Apperley, A. Armitage, W. Beacall, T. Davies Buriton, 

 J. Docking, P. C. Cleasby, T. W. Fortey, Charles Fortey, G. H. Hadfield, 

 W. Hebb, E. E. Ingham, Edwin Lloyd and Miss Lloyd, H. C. Moore, T. C. Paris, 

 G. H. PhiUott, William Phillips, A. J. Purchas, H. T. Purchas, J. Riley, O. 

 Shellard, and J. Stanley Whittock. 



On arrival at Ludlow carriages were awaiting the visitors, and drove off at 

 once for Caynham camp. Here the party were joined by Sir William Curtis, 

 Bart., Mr. G. B. Charleton, Miss Charleton, Master J. E. Charleton, Miss Dyke, 

 Rev. J. Rosa (vicar of Caynham), Mr. and Mrs. Lloyd (Ludlow), and some few 

 others whose names did not get on the list of those present. 



The visitors having examined an outwork on the western side then entered 

 the camp, and walked along the outer Valiums on the southern side. The camp 

 occupied the summit of a hill some 600 feet above sea-level, and its strong en- 

 trenchments must have made it very formidable to attack. These advantages, 

 however, are dealt with in the papers which follow, and it is sufficient to say that 

 ha\-ing reached the high embankments which guard its eastern entrance, the 



