HERTFORDSHIRE NATURAL HISTORY SOCIETY. 
XXV 
Field Meeting, 10th June, 1886. 
BROXBOURNE AND THE RYE HOUSE. 
From Broxbourne Station, the party, under the direction of Mr. 
It. T. Andrews, went over the mill-stream and under the railway, 
obtaining a good view of Broxbourne church, and then crossed the 
Fiver Lea where the county boundary was pointed out. The road 
between the meads and marsh was taken to the “ four-want-way ” 
from Waltham to Boydon and Nazing to Broxbourne, and, on 
arriving at Nazingbury, from a little hill, a fine view of the country 
on the Hertfordshire side of the boundary was obtained. 
Nether Hall was then visited and an account of it was given by 
Mr. Andrews. He stated that it was a mile and a half south of 
the Bye House and half a mile from the junction of the Bivers 
Lea and Stort, which form the north-western boundary of the 
ancient royal forest of Epping. The mansion was pulled down in 
1773, the gateway only, a good specimen of Tudor architecture, 
being left standing because of the expense of destroying it. After 
giving a description of the old mansion, he traced the history of the 
manor from 1401 to the present time. 
From Nether Hall the party proceeded to the foot of Sow Hill, and 
then over the meadows and by the banks of the Stort and Battey’s 
Lock to the Bye House, returning home by train. 
The following are some of the plants gathered in the course of 
the walk and determined by Mr. Andrews :•— 
Batracliium pseudo-Jluitans , Pryor. 
Bapaver Rhoeas , L. 
Lychnis Flos-cuculi, L. 
Lathyrus pratensis , L. 
Rubus ccesius, L. 
Rosa cauinn , L. 
Heraclium Spkondilium , L. 
Symphytum officinale, L. 
Myosotis palustris, Belli. 
Veronica Beccabunga, L. 
Rhinanthus minor , Ehrh. 
Hottonia palustris , L. 
Riant ago media , L. 
Chenopodium Bonus-Henricus, L. 
Carex riparia, Curt. 
,, distans, L. 
„ vulpina , L. 
Alopecurus geniculatus, L. 
Glyceria fluitans , R. Br. 
Briza media, L. 
Fquisetum limosum, L. 
Ophioglossum vulgatum , L. 
Field Meeting, 12th June, 1886. 
WATFORD. 
Field Meeting, 26th June, 1886. 
PINNER. 
The extension of the Metropolitan Bailway from Pinner to 
Bickmansworth has exposed here and there sections of the London 
Clay, of the Woolwich and Beading Beds, and of the Chalk. The 
object of this meeting was to examine the sections of the Lower 
Tertiaries from Pinner to their escarpment near Moor Park, leaving 
the Chalk exposed at Bickmansworth for a future visit. 
The place of meeting was the point where the line crosses the 
road to Bickmansworth, and here the members were met by members 
of the Geologists’ Association, with the Director, Mr. Hopkinson. 
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