We’re a small, friendly dance club who meet weekly, alternating between Thursday afternoons and Thursday evenings. All ages and abilities welcome, from beginner to advanced.
When
Thursdays – Afternoon/Evening
Where
Ingatestone Dance Club, 7 High St, Ingatestone, CM4 9ED
Founded In 1951, the club has some 130+ members (2023) who enjoy coarse angling in three lakes:
The Red House Lake – the oldest club water, a lake dating from the 1880s, which lies behind the Gatehouse in Station Lane and stretches to the Tor Bryan estate. A member’s favourite, the whole of the lake and surroundings lie within the Station Lane Conservation Area. A mixed fishery with some larger Carp.
Lower Hall Lake – created in the early 1990s from cattle ponds in the old Orchard Close beyond Ingatestone Hall which existed in the early 1600s. A very special place on the edge of the Wid Valley with a history going back to the Tudor period. A mixed fishery with some nice Tench and Crucian Carp.
Green Street Lake – taken on by the club in the 1990s, the lake lies just off Green Street, Fryerning on the Parish boundary with Mountnessing, formed by the Hey Brook. A mixed fishery with some large Carp.
The club also has permission, going back to the 1970s, to fish along various banks of the River Wid at Buttsbury, downstream, between Wardropers Farm, Mountnessing, and the Stock Lane Water Treatment Works boundary at Buttsbury. Can produce some fantastic Chub and Roach.
The club has a seasonal series of matches, using all three lakes and other venues further afield, which in recent years has included lakes in Essex and away-day trips to the Thames (Runneymede and Staines) and the Norfolk Broads (River Yare).
Since the earliest days the Club has encouraged junior membership and has organised matches for juniors. In recent years, the club has built up a relationship with Essex Boys’ & Girls’ Clubs, based in Chelmsford, which has included matches and training sessions at Lower Hall and Red House. The organisation has member clubs across the whole of Essex, and in East and West London, whose members have benefited from the natural and peaceful environments at these lakes.
Photo: Lower Hall Lake, Ingatestone Hall, Hall Lane, Ingatestone, Essex
08 May 2022: Looking east towards the Wid Valley and Buttsbury.
Taken by Robert Fletcher.
Ingatestone Allotment Association has plots available at their Stock Lane sites. Growing your own vegetables, fruit and flowers can be very rewarding and even become a profitable hobby and more interesting that going to the gym.
The Association was created to assume the management of the village allotments in 2014 when the Parish Council divested itself of the site. There have been allotments here since the Smallholding and Allotments Act 1907 and today the site covers just over 4.5 acres and is home to 77 allotment holders of all ages and levels of experience who currently maintain 92 plots.
How to rent an allotment
If you are interested in renting an allotment, please contact the Association.
We will discuss your requirements and show you available plots or put you on the waiting list, if there is one. Plots vary in size from 40sq.m. upwards and the water supply is from mains linked dip tanks around the site.
Prior to commencing your tenancy, you will need to sign and return a copy of the Association’s regulations, pay a year’s rental in advance, 28p per square metre held as of September 2016, and pay a £50 deposit which is returnable at the end of the tenancy if the plot is in good condition.
Chairman Graham Slater 07753 636365 or graham.slater@sanechoice.com
Secretary Annabel Lowman 07855 766628 or annabel1958@icloud.com
