32 THE ESSEX FIELD CLUB.
This interesting and important meeting concluded, Mr. Buxton continued his.
demonstrations, and ultimately the carriages were resumed at the Chigwell Row
"Recreation Ground," which abuts on the new Hainhault. The rain commenced,
and continued the whole way home.
[It should be mentioned that a large informal meeting was held on the previous
day, and much of the ground traversed by members of the County Council and
others whose engagements prevented their attendance on the Saturday. Mr.
Buxton then also acted as leader and demonstrator. The rain was persistent
during the whole afternoon, and the site of the marquee on Cabin Plain and the
ground around was literally flooded.]
VISIT TO PLESHEY AND TERLING PLACE.
Tuesday, June 17th, 1902.
This meeting was intended to afford an opportunity of seeing the very
interesting village of Pleshey and to take advantage of the kind invitation from
Lord and Lady Rayleigh to visit them at Telling Place.
PLAN OF THE PLESHEY EARTHWORKS.
From the Ordnance Survey Map (scale 6 inches=1 mile).
The assembly was called at 10 o'clock at Chelmsford Railway Station, where
brakes were waiting. The party was comparatively small, owing to the rainy
weather of the past week or ten days. The conductors were Mr. Chalkley Gould
and Mr. Miller Christy, F.L.S.; Dr. Laver, who was to have given his valuable
services, was unfortunately detained at Colchester by professional work.
The rain held off during the very pleasant ride through the villages of Broom-
field, Great Waltham, and so along a by-road to Pleshey. The country looked
very bright and fresh, and there was an abundance of early summer] way-side
flowers. The luxuriant foliage of the trees and hedges, especially characteristic of
the present summer, was everywhere recognised with delight.
Pleshey has evidently been a settlement from the very earliest times. Accord-
ing to Mr. Horace Round, the name comes from old French Plaisseis, meaning an
enclosure with pales closely interlaced. The great entrenchment which surrounds
the village is probably British (T. V. Holmes, Essex Nat. x., 151), but the period