Water Mead and Dairys Mead are divided by a stream that has Sallow trees (also known as Goat

Willow) growing all along it. The midden or waste dump, mainly full of glass bottles and broken crockery, was in the trees at the bottom of Dairys Mead (now its fallen over the edge into the undercliff). Hatchet Plot and Stall Close were once two fields. At the top of those fields runs the Smugglers Path). There are numerous paths with that name in the south of England, but it does seem that this path used to wind its way from Charmouth to Eype via Stanton St. Gabriel and that it was well used by smugglers. Seven Acres and Great Mead are these days full of wildflowers, principally Green-Veined Orchids, Yellow Rattle and Greater Knapweed. In the hedge to the south of Great Mead are many Bullace trees, a sour plum that was probably planted by the inhabitants of Westhay Farm. There were also orchards at the bottom of Boiling Close and at the far end of Sydling Close. At the bottom of New Mead, where Westhay Water runs, there are Cowslips, wild Irises, Ragged Robin and other marsh plants. Where Westhay Water runs out of New Mead and down to the sea are the remains of a lime kiln where the lime used in the mortar for the houses, barns, walls and farm buildings would have been made. Skylarks nest in Great Mead and ravens in the coppice beyond Sydling Close. There are often owls nesting in the barns and bats emerge from there in the early evening. Snipe usually nest by Westhay Water.

Sydling Close

Seven Acres

Hatchet Plot

Great Mead Acres Stall Close Boiling Close

Dairys Mead

Water Mead

New Mead