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QUIZ – 25 Questions to test your knowledge of the High Country

Published in Issue 4

He was commemorated in brass, as an infant in swaddling clothes, in Stanford Rivers in 1492. What was the infant’s name?
How did the parish of Stanford Rivers commemorate the Jubilee of Queen Victoria?
When was the Ongar Union Workhouse established?
Why is the burial of William Nayler in Stanford Rivers churchyard a puzzle?
Starve Goose Field is named in the Greensted Tithe Award of 1841. Why was the field called by this name?
Greensted Church was restored in Victorian times. Who was the vicar at the time of this restoration?
Name a site of a Victorian post box within the four parishes of the High Country.
In 1839, James Brine married Elizabeth Standfield in Greensted Church. Why is this marriage of some historical significance?
The ghosts of Roman centurions have reportedly been seen walking from Blake Hall through the High Country. Why do these centurions have some historical connection?
Where is the old school house in Greensted?
The post mill at Toot Hill was struck by lightning on the 26th June 1829. The Miller suffered serious injuries. What was the miller’s name?
What is the K6 near North Farm, Theydon Mount?
What relevance is Molehill Green (near Stansted Airport) to Theydon Mount?
What bus route made five return trips daily through Theydon Mount to Toothill until the late seventies?
To whom precisely is the church at Theydon Mount dedicated?
What industrial activity once took place on the site of the present Theydon Mount rectory?
Which towns are or were linked by the roman road that runs through Theydon Mount and Toot Hill?
What is the corrugated iron structure immediately adjacent to the roman road at Badger’s Corner, Tawney Common?
What is special about the northern verge of the roman road, roughly between Galloway’s Farm and High Warren?
What is the name of the new road - built within the last 200 years - that links the cottages at the north end of Beachet Wood with the roman road at Badger’s Corner?
What connects Stanford Rivers Church and the songs “Run Rabbit Run” and “The Sun Has Got His Hat On.”?
In which year did the following fires occur?

a. Hill Hall
b. St Mary’s Stapleford Tawney
c. St Margaret’s Stanford Rivers.

The body of which Saint rested at Greensted Church on its last journey?
Which famous explorer ‘preached’ in the Congregational Chapel at Stanford Rivers?
What are Peggles and Butter Harsies?

The Answers to these questions will be given in Newsletter No. 5. Best of luck!