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 7: PRIVATE VIEW
Upon the death of his father, John Strutt succeeded to the title
of Baron Rayleigh in 1873. He then took up residence at Terling
Place, where he built a laboratory adjacent to the manor house. His
early papers deal with such subjects as electromagnetism, colour,
acoustics, and diffraction gratings. Perhaps his most significant
early work was his theory explaining the blue colour of the sky as
the result of scattering of sunlight by small particles in the
atmosphere. The Rayleigh scattering law, which evolved from this
theory, has since become classic in the study of all kinds of wave
propagation.
After the Thistle Corner cache, follow the path across the field
to a gate (waypoint). Turn left and follow the road for about 260
metres, taking care as it can sometimes be busy, then when the main
road turns left (waypoint) carry straight on down the lane.