atte-Bower, with the mansion of Pyrgo Park on the sky-line ; on the north, in
the valley, the modern mansion of Harold Court; the rising ground and trees of
Dagnam Park (Lady Neave's), and the village and park of South Weald. The
view eastward of Brentwood, Warley, and Thorndon Park (three miles) is cut off by
a higher ridge of land (300 feet), and Foxburrow (Coombe Green) Wood. The
whole scenery is charmingly diversified, a bit of rural Essex of the olden days, at
present unaltered.
At the N.E. corner is a farm-house called Tyler's Hall (or Tylehurst), and a
little way south of this a halt was called at the Mineral Spring and Well; and
some notes were read by Mr. Crouch, from which the following are extracts :—
Notes on the Mineral Spring on Tyler's Common.
This spring has certainly been known as a mineral water for over 200 years
but the earliest reference I can find is that in a little 8vo volume entitled " The
Natural History of the Chalybeat and Purging Waters of England, &c," by
Benjamin Allen,3 Med. Bac, dated 1699.
Mr. Wire took photographs of the party at the well, and the ramble was
then continued across the common to the starting point, and down the lane by
Great House and Aspen-tree Farm to the fine spring of pure water near Pot
Kilns, from which the cottagers far round still obtain their supply.
Plate II. Photograph of the Club members who attended the meeting at Tylers
Common in July 1890. Taken by Mr Wire (see report in figure 2). From an
original glass negative in the collection of the Passmore Edwards Museum.