Hall) then a brisk walk from there to the hall itself (the footpath is part of St. Peters way). A walk round the front of the hall, going left by the ancient church of St. Mary, Mundon, then across a field and I came across what is one of the most extraordinary sights I have ever seen - a field full of huge dead pollard oaks, like ancient ghosts, bark-less and bleached Dead oak pollards at Mundon Hall copyright M.W. Hanson 16 Essex Field Club Newsletter No. 42, September 2003