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 - FINISH
TOURING
TERLING EXTRA: CHURCH MICRO 446 TERLING
Number 3: NEW WOOD FOR OLD
Terling Windmill is a four storey smock mill on an octagonal
single storey brick base. A stage was not used. The mill had four
double Patent sails and the domed cap was winded by a fantail. When
the mill was working, it had a tarred smock with a white cap. It
was painted black during World War One as camouflage against
zeppelin bombers which could use it as a landmark. After
conversion, the mill was painted white, with the cap clad in
aluminum sheets
In the next field keep to the right following the path to a
little wood. The cache is a small container.
After the cache, follow the path through the woods then turn
right (waypoint) and head towards 'the tree'.