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 8: RIDLEY HALL
Lord Rayleigh owned nearly all the soil around and was lord of
the four manors viz., Terling Place, Terling Hall (or Margeries,)
Loys Hall, Ridley Hall, and Ringers. The manor houses of all,
except the first, were occupied by farmers. Loys Hall was formerly
very extensive, but a great part of it was taken down many years
ago. It was a seat of the Rochester family for many generations.
The manor of Terling was part of the endowment of Ely Abbey; till
William the Conqueror gave it to Ralph Peverel (more on the
Peverels is noted in Hatfield
Peverel Church Micro 645)
From Private View cache, follow the quiet lane passing a
reservoir and then Ridley Hall. Continue on the stony track
(waypoint)to a bridge then turn left.