THE BOOK OF DUCK DECOYS. 



Marsh House. 

 Grange. 



Glebeland Decoy. 

 East Hall. 

 West Wick. 

 South Hall. 

 Ramsey Island. 

 Steeple. 

 Latchington. 

 Goldhanger (i). 

 Goldhanger (2). 

 Solleys. 

 Gore. 



Skinner's Wick. 

 Bohun's Hall. 



Decoys in use. 



Decoys out of use. 



Old Hall. 



Old Hall (Teal Pond). 

 Mersea Island. 

 Lion Point. 

 Old Mose Hall. 

 Great Oakley Hall. 

 Horsey Island. 

 Dovercourt. 

 Roydon Hall. 

 The Old Decoy. 

 Jacques Hall. 

 Pond Hall. 

 Wormingford. 

 Villa Farm. 



The Marsh House Decoy is in Bi-aduxU MarsJi, south of the 

 Blackvvater. This Decoy is situated on property belonging to the Dean 

 and Chapter of St. Paul's, and is in the occupation of Mr. Robert Page of 

 Bradwell. The pool is rather more than an acre in extent, and, like that in 

 the adjoining marsh at Tillingham, has six pipes, and both pools closely 

 resemble the Friskney Decoy (page 122). In a map of Essex of 1825, 

 prepared from a survey made in 1824, three Decoys are shown on the coast 

 south of the Blackwater. The northernmost of the three, known as the 

 Glebeland Decoy, Bradwell-juxta-Mare, has been disused for more than 

 sixty years ; the southernmost is that still worked in Tillingham Marsh by 

 Mr. C. Page, and the centre one is that now under consideration. It lies 

 f of a mile due west from the coast, and if miles E. of Tillingham, and 

 at a distance looks like a clump of trees upon the marsh. It is not a large 

 pool, but is very secluded and well concealed by reeds and brushwood. It 

 has six pipes, the hoops of which are of wood. 



At times a good many Wigeon are taken here, although in some 

 years these birds almost entirely desert this Decoy in favour of that 



