Terling, a pleasant Essex country village with a very pretty
church, its own manor house and a smock windmill. This series of
caches will take you on a walk in and around the village and
includes part of the Essex Way path to the quiet little church at
Fairstead. The walk back through pleasant countryside goes past the
18th century Terling windmill.
Terling can be reached by turning off the A12 at Hatfield
Peverel and is about 2½ miles North West from there.
This is an anti-clockwise circular walk of about 4 miles from
the recommended Parking Co-ordinates at the village hall. The walk
is generally along clearly marked and well maintained footpaths and
consists of ten caches and an optional extra cache. A further
existing cache can be found along the route. The main walk can be
completed in about two hours and incorporates part of the Essex
Way.
Touring Terling caches 2 to 9 may contain part of the
coordinates for the Touring Terling Final cache, these are no
longer needed the co-ords published are now the final
location.
TOURING
TERLING: 1 - RED DEFIBRILLATOR BOX
TOURING
TERLING: 2 - WINDMILL VIEW
TOURING
TERLING: 3 - NEW WOOD FOR OLD
TOURING
TERLING: 4 - CHURCH MICRO 768 FAIRSTEAD
TOURING
TERLING: 5 - WINDMILL VIEW TOO!
TOURING
TERLING: 6 - THISTLE CORNER
TOURING
TERLING: 7 - PRIVATE VIEW
TOURING
TERLING: 8 - RIDLEY HALL
TOURING
TERLING: 9 - WINDMILL APPROACH
TOURING
TERLING: 10 - FINAL
TOURING
TERLING EXTRA: CHURCH MICRO 446 TERLING
Number 5: WINDMILL VIEW TOO!
Oh, Mr Porter! a British comedy film released in 1937 starring
Will Hay with Moore Marriott and Graham Moffatt and directed by
Marcel Varnel. It is widely acclaimed as the best of Hay's work,
and a classic of its time and genre.
The Story - William Porter is working as a lowly wheel tapper on
the English Railways until, through the influence of his
downtrodden brother-in-law (who happens to be managing director of
the railway company), he is offered the position of station master
at the isolated station at Buggleskelly in Northern Ireland. Rather
a poisoned chalice, as station masters as Buggleskelly have a
reputation for going mad and not lasting all that long... Once in
Buggleskelly, he hears the story of One-eyed-Joe (the phantom
miller), meets his two station hands (the wily Harbottle and
good-for-nothing Albert) and somehow has his train stolen by the
Phantom Miller... The Windmill used for the filming was Terling
Windmill!
From Fairstead Church, continue along Fairstead Hall Road until
the road bends sharply left (waypoint) and there take the footpath
going straight on.