136 THE ESSEX NATURALIST
Aulacomnium palustre (Hedw.) Schwaegr.
A. androgynum (Hedw.) Schwaegr.
Drepanocladus fluitans (Hedw.) Warnst.
Acrocladium cuspidatum (Hedw.) Lindb.
A. cordifolium (Hedw.) Richards & Wallace
Eurynchium praelongum (Hedw.) Hobk.
Pseudoscleropodium purum (Hedw.) Fleisch
Plagiothecium denticulatum (Hedw.) B. & S.
Hypnum cupressiforme Hedw.
Lophocolea cuspidata (Nees) Limpr.
Calypogeia trichomanis (L.) Corda
Mill Green and Ingatestone Hall, Ingatestone (1009th Meeting)
SATURDAY, 22 JUNE, 1957
A party of about two dozen assembled at Ingatestone Market Place at
10.30 a.m. and under the leadership of Mrs. F. B. Bartrop proceeded
to Fryerning Church and thence to Mill Green. Here, the party was welcomed
by Miss Violet M. Christy and entertained in her garden at "St. Giles" to
coffee and biscuits. Miss Christy spoke of various archaeological and historical
matters of interest in the neighbourhood and of Bedeman's Berg in particular.
Miss Christy also made a plea, and described her local efforts, to have
Ingatestone pronounced properly—Ing-at-Stone and not In-gate-stone.
Our hostess was kind enough to accompany the party along Mapletree Lane
to Monks and Barrows Farm where, by permission of the owner, a visit was
made to the remains of Bedeman's Berg. This early 12th century hermitage
became, in the middle of that century, a cell, with two monks, of Colchester
Abbey. (See Essex Review for January, 1909, Volume XVIII, pages 129-136).
In inclement weather, the party re-assembled for a picnic lunch on Mill
Green Common, some taking shelter at "The Cricketers" and others at
"The Viper"—the latter being a name unique among English inns.
At 2.30 p.m. the party, with some additions to its number, visited
Ingatestone Hall where the Essex Record Office were holding their annual
exhibition, this year's subject being "The Face of Essex." Under the
guidance of Miss Nancy Briggs, M.A. (Oxon.), Assistant Archivist, the
party toured the exhibition which dealt with four aspects of the topography
of the county—the diversity of the Essex landscape, the science and art of
the map-maker, county maps and the continuity and change in the landscape.
A visit was also made to the Garden Chamber and the Long Gallery, in
which there was a display of Essex armorial china.
Tea was then taken at The Chase Hotel, after which there was a short
formal meeting of the Club. Though the weather precluded much serious
work by the botanists, entomologists and ornithologists, Dr. Alvin reported
finding twenty species of grasses.