LITTLE GADDESDEN. 



Country Between Woodford in Essex and 

 Little Gaddesden, Hertfordshire. 



[T. I. p. 178]. 



The 25th March, 1748. 



|N the morning I undertook at the 

 cost and at the request of Herr 

 Vice-President Baron Bjelke, a 

 journey to see Mr. Ellis, who 

 lived at Little Gaddesden in Hert- 

 fordshire. Mr. Ellis was a man 

 who had a great reputation for his 

 Practique in Landtlmsli&llnin- 

 gen, or Rural Economy, but still 

 more for his many writings on the same Art, which 

 latterly he had published yearly. 



I started at 9 o'clock together with Jungstrom, and 

 a man who was our guide. 



The principal villages and places we passed through 

 this day were the following. 



Waltham Abbey, situated six miles from Woodford, 



is now a little town, but has formerly been much larger. 



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