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som: 14 feet deep, but the later ones are deeper, No. 5 well being 42 feet, and 
No. 6 well 24 feet in depth. Curiously enough, although the water is adver- 
tised as ‘“ Vange Water,” the wells, which are situated along the eastern 
edge of Martinhole Wood, are actually in the parish of Fobbing, as are also 
other wells sunk by rival exploiters, whose water, however, is of less medicinal 
value. An account of the Vange water, its constituents and its mode of 
occurrence, by our Conductors, was given in this Journal (ante, pp. 221-227). 
A visit was next paid to the Vange Pumping Station of the Southend 
Waterworks Co., where the party was welcomed by the Chairman of the 
Company, Mr, J. Francis, and by the secretary and manager, Mr.C. S. Bilham, 
and his son, the engineer to the company. Samples of rock met within the 
various wells sunk by the Company in south-east Essex, and shells, sharks’ 
teeth, etc., from the London Clay, were exhibited and diagram-sections of 
the deep borings at Vange, Leighbeck, and elsewhere, were shown. An 
inspection was also made of the large covered Reservoir, containing some 
nine million gallons of water from the deep local boring, and of the engine- 
house, 
Returning to the Mineral Wells, the company was entertained to tea by 
Mr. Cash and his family, following which a formal Meeting of the Club was 
held, the President, Dr. A. Smith Woodward, presiding. 
Mr. Frank W, Jane, of 163, East Barnet Road, New Barnet, Herts; and 
Mr. St. John Marriott, of 37, Owenzte Street, Abbey Wood, S.E.2, 
were elected Members, and one certificate of nomination for membership was 
read, : 
The President proposed the warm thanks of the party to our Conductors, 
and to the Chairman, Manager and Engineer of the Southend Waterworks 
Co.,and also to Mr. Cash and his family, for their abundant hospitality ; 
thesewere heartily accorded, 
The return walk to Pitsea enabled the somewhat tired visitors to catch, 
with not a minute to spare, the 6.46 up train to London. 
Thousands of Green-winged Orchis (O. morio) covered the fields about the 
Wells of Vange, and the Cotton Thistle (Onopordon acanthium) was noticed 
growing on the hill by Pitsea church. Adder’s-tongue Fern (Ophioglossum 
vulgatum) was found at Vange. 
Ornithologists of the party reported the discovery of a nest of Great 
Crested Grebe containing three eggs, a Magpie’s nest and others, while the 
song of the Nightingale was insistent in the wood at Vange. 
VISIT TO MALDON AND BEELEIGH ABBEY 
(566TH MEETING), 
SATURDAY, 2ND JUNE, 1923. 
In response to a kind invitation from Mr. and Mrs. R. E. Thomas, the 
owners and occupiers of the restored Beeleigh Abbey, a meeting was arranged 
at Maldon, in order to take advantage of this welcome offer to inspect this 
architecturally interesting medieval building. 
The London party travelled by train leaving Liverpool Street at 11.30 
.’clock, and reached Maldon East station, rather belated, shortly after 1 
