WOODFORD. 



Country between London and Woodford. 

 [T. I. p. 146.] The 28th February, 1748. 



N the morning I went out into the 

 country to a place named Wood- 

 ford, 10 miles from London, in 

 Essex. The prospect of the 

 country between London and 

 Woodford, where we now travelled 

 was mostly plain, or only in small 

 hills. The whole way there is 

 nothing else but a succession of 

 beautiful houses, fertile arable fields and verdant meadows. 

 At all the houses there was commonly a garden full of 

 various beautiful trees. The walls of the houses were 

 overdrawn either with Syringa, Caprifolium, [Lonicera 

 Caprifolium] Goatsleaf Honeysuckle, Hedera, Ivy or 

 Mespilus pyri folio Sempervirens, or some other kinds. 

 In some places there were not planks but hedges round 

 the gardens, of Taxus, yew, elm, hawthorn, or some 

 other tree. 



The whole of the land was divided into inclosures, or 

 tappor och tackter, which were all surrounded by 

 hedges of all kinds of planted trees, especially hawthorn, 

 sloe, [T. I. p. 147] dog-rose, blackberry-bushes, holly, 

 Agrifolium, together with a number of other trees 



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