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THE ESSEX FIELD CLUB.
Meeting in the Theydons, Stapleford Tawney, etc.
Saturday, May 28th, 1892.
DIRECTORS. — Rev. Lewis N. Prance, M.A.; C. B. Sworder ; David
Houston, F.L.S. ; Walter Crouch, F.Z.S.; I. Chalkley Gould, and
G. E. Pritchett, F.S.A.
THE Hundred of Ongar consists of twenty-six parishes, nearly all extremely
rural in character, and of these the route chosen for the afternoon's excur-
sion led the visitors through eight. Starting from Loughton Station about three
o'clock, the members were driven through perhaps the prettiest parts of that
Theydon Garnon Church (Winter).
From a Drawing by H. A. Cole.
parish, past Loughton Hall and the little memorial church of St. Nicholas, into
England's Lane, by the charming hamlet of Debden Green (where a specimen of
the little "Beech Hook-tip" moth, Drepana unguicula, was observed), and so through
the avenue across Theydon Bois Green.
The weather was delightful, a somewhat strong breeze tempering the warmth
of the brilliant sunshine. Very welcome were the sweet odours of profusion of
"May" blossoms and opening tree buds, the almost magical luxuriance of the
hedgerows, winding through miles upon miles of broad upland meadows which