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at places, but it appears never to have extended to its summit. Mr. Searles V.
Wood adduced this particular case to show that that deposit came on when
partial re-emergence from the great depression of the land in glacial times had
taken place. The gravels so abundant on the summit of the ridge are a product
of that great depression.
In passing, the picturesque old Tudor Manor-house of "Riffhams" was
inspected from the outside, and the route continued by field-paths to "The
Hoppit," at Little Baddow, where Mr. and Mrs. Briscoe most hospitably
received the party at tea.
After tea, the 282nd Ordinary Meeting of the Club was held on the verandah,
Mr. Miller Christy, F.L.S., Vice-President, in the chair.
The Chairman referred sympathetically to the continued absence, through ill-
ness, of the President, Mr. Dymond, and the hon. secretary, Mr. W. Cole.
The following were elected members: —
Miss Evitt, The Bungalow, Loughton Lane, Theydon Bois.
Miss Mabel Evitt, The Bungalow, Loughton Lane, Theydon Bois.
Mr. J. T. Curry, F.C.I.S., Huttonholm, Parkview Gardens, Grays.
Mr. and Mrs. F. Brown, Wearside, Fairholt, Stamford Hill, N.
By invitation of the Chairman, some very interesting remarks on the history
of Little Baddow were made by our member, Mr. R. H. Browne, of Stapleford
Abbotts.
The Chairman then proposed that the best thanks of the Club be offered to
their Host and Hostess for their kind hospitality, and Mr. Hogg seconded. On
being put to the meeting, this was carried by acclamation. Mr. Briscoe replied
thanking the Club for its visit and expressing the hope that the present would
not be the last occasion on which the Club would meet under his roof. The
proceedings then terminated.
Visits were subsequently made to the old Congregational Meeting House,
and to the Parish Church, in each of which remarks on the various points of
interest were made by Messrs. Briscoe, Browne, Christy, and the Rev. J. W.
Kenworthy.
Brakes conveyed the company to Chelmsford Station for home.
MEETING AT AUDLEY END AND SAFFRON WALDEN.1
 Saturday, 18th June 1910.
The party assembled at Audley End Station at 9.43 a.m., being there met by
some twenty scholars (boys and girls) from the Saffron Walden Friends' School,
constituting the School Natural History Society, under the leadership of Mr. G.
Morris, B.Sc., who acted as one of the "Conductors" of the day, his coadjutors
being Mr. James Reeves, Mr. Guy Maynard, and Mr. Miller Christy, F.L.S.
A visit was paid to Wendens Ambo Church, a small but ancient and interest-
ing structure. The tower is of early Norman, if not Saxon, Age, and has the
arch of the west door turned with two courses of Roman tiles, probably
obtained from the ruins of a neighbouring Roman Villa, which was subsequently
excavated by Lord Braybrooke in 1844. Here, too, was seen the tombstone of
one of Nelson's midshipmen, who died at the ripe age of 104.
1 Reports of visits to the Saffron Walden district, which contain a great deal of local
information, will be found in former volumes (see Jour. Proc. E.F.C. iv., lxxxiii-xcii. ;
Essex Nat. iii., 286-295 ; E.N. xiv., 155, and elsewhere).