38 ESSEX AS A WINE-PRODUCING COUNTY.
Coggeshall, North Ockendon, Havering, and Tendring, fields
which are still called "The Vineyard," while at Roydon there is
a "Vineyard Hill," at West Bergholt a Wine Mark Field,
at Great Horkesley a Vinese Field, and at Stapleford Abbotts
there is a field known as "Vineys"—the latter very likely a
corruption. I remember that, many years since, the Rev. W.
Gibson, of Tilty, pointed out to me a pasture still called "The
Vineyard" which lies immediately adjoining the site of the
Abbey of Tilty, on the western slope of the picturesque and.
well-sheltered valley in which the Abbey stood. Dr. Laver
informs me that, at Copford, there is a field, close to the village
school, which retains the name of "The Vineyard." At Chelms-
ford, adjoining the Recreation Ground, there is a road known
as the Vineyards ; and, at Great Baddow, close to Chelms-
ford, there is a residence known as "The Vineyards;" but
I cannot say whether these names are ancient or not.
The residence of our member, Mr. William Murray Tuke,
standing in a elevated position near the summit of Windmill
Hill and overlooking the whole of the town of Saffron Walden,
is known as "The Vineyards." Mr. Tuke gave the house
this name (as he has been good enough to inform me) when he
built it, some fifteen or twenty years ago, owing to the fact
that a field (9 acres 19 perches in extent, a portion of which
now forms part of the grounds attached to the house), bore the
same name, as it had probably done for centuries. It is by no
means improbable that this field (which lies on the hill-side,
with a considerable slope to the southward) may formerly
have been cultivated as a vineyard by the monks of the Abbey
of Walden, the site of which is scarcely more than a mile distant.
Again, at Ingatestone Hall, there is a small piece of ground,
lying on the south side of the house, which is said 17 still to bear
the name of "The Vineyards."
At Holfield Grange, near Coggeshall, about half-a-mile
westward from the house and on the margin of the park, there is
a wood known as "Vineyard Wood," which I have recently been
able to visit through the kindness of Mr. R. D. Hill. In this
wood, there is a small sheltered valley, sloping sharply to the
south-west, which is probably the site of the ancient vineyard
from which the wood took its name. There can be very little
doubt that here, in mediaeval days, the monks of the Abbey of
17 See Notes and Queries, 28th Dec. 1850.