Epping Forest Flora
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This water tower is Grade 2 listed. After a campaign by local doctor John Clegg - Epping had the highest rate of Cholera & Typhoid in Essex - it was built in 1872.
I've taken photos of it before from the main road but there is a car park behind from where you get this view. It's part of The Tower School today.
….. One from our London trip 2 weeks ago, we did manage to snatch a few moments leisure time with out Grandson in his favourite woodland retreat! Alan:-)….
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Taken directly opposite The Bell Hotel, Epping, which has been in the news a lot recently.
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Converted to monochrome and given an enlarged newspaper finish.
This is the birthplace of Mary Ball (Washington), the mother of George Washington, the first President of the United States.
The original house was constructed in about 1680. The present day (ca. 1800) Epping Forest house in Lively, Virginia incorporates parts of the original house.
Mary Ball was born in approximately 1707, to Joseph Ball and Mary Johnson Ball. Mary Ball married Augustine Washington in 1731. Their first son, George Washington was born on February 22, 1732, at Popes Creek, Virginia.
Mary Ball Washington died on August 25, 1789.
This house is currently privately owned.
Epping is the last station at the northern end of the Central Line on the London Underground network
Beech trees growing on the site of Loughton Camp, an iron age ring fort (c. 500 B.C.) in Epping Forest.
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Epping Forest is a 2,400-hectare area of ancient woodland, and other established habitats, between Epping in Essex to the north, and Forest Gate in Greater London to the south, straddling the border between London and Essex. It is a former royal forest, and is owned and managed by the City of London Corporation.
For nearly a thousand years people have been grazing cattle on Epping Forest. It is part of the commoner rights to be able to do so. Currently the only breed of cattle being grazed in the forest are English Long Horn.
……A quick grab shot whilst our Grandson Erroll was busy hiding in a hollow Oak tree when we last went down to London.…
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Epping Forest is a 2,400-hectare area of ancient woodland, and other established habitats, between Epping in Essex to the north, and Forest Gate in Greater London to the south, straddling the border between London and Essex. It is a former royal forest, and is owned and managed by the City of London Corporation.
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Epping Forest is a 2,400-hectare (5,900-acre) area of ancient woodland between Epping in Essex to the north, and Forest Gate in Greater London to the south, straddling the border between London and Essex. It is a former royal forest, and is managed by the City of London Corporation. An area of 1,728 hectares (4,270 acres) is a Site of Special Scientific Interest and a Special Area of Conservation. It gives its name to the Epping Forest local government district, which covers part of it.
The forest is approximately 19 kilometres (12 mi) long in the north-south direction, but no more than 4 kilometres (2.5 mi) from east to west at its widest point, and in most places considerably narrower. It lies on a ridge between the valleys of the rivers Lea and Roding. It contains areas of woodland, grassland, heath, streams, bogs and ponds, and its elevation and thin gravelly soil (the result of glaciation) historically made it unsuitable for agriculture. The forest was saved from destruction in the late 19th century after popular protests prompted the City of London to take legal action to prevent enclosure.
...actually having checked the map this isn't Epping Forest, instead it's another area of forest around the corner from the new house in Woodfood Green. Probably one of the nicest areas I've lived.
Of the few hundred or so shots I took yesterday I knew this was the best of the bunch the moment I landed on it. Ticks the boxes for me.
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The Epping Ongar Railway is a heritage railway in south-west Essex, England, run by a small number of paid staff and a team of volunteers. It was the final section of the Great Eastern Railway branch line, later the London Underground's Central line from Loughton via Epping to Ongar. The Epping Ongar Lights Express is an incredible light show on and in a steam train, consisting of thousands of coloured LED lights and LED wristbands, creating a kaleidoscope of different colours and flashing patterns.
The lack of winds and warm temperatures have ensured that autumn in the forest is very colourful. Point a camera anywhere and the colours are amazing.
Beech trees in part of Loughton Camp, an Iron Age ring fort, dating to c. 500 BC. Part of the earthwork can just about be seen beyond the furthest righthand tree.
Still deep in the archives, this shot's from 1984. A bunch of us used to go and camp there from time to time between about 1981 and 1985, which was seemingly legal in those days - the forest wardens would appear on little trail bikes and sell us a camping ticket for a nominal fee and were happy as long as we didn't light fires or leave litter behind. I'm guessing this has changed now as I haven't seen a tent in the forest in decades - though tbh I never saw anyone else camping there back then either.
Taken with a 1978-vintage Olympus Trip 35, scanned from a colour print and processed with Nik Silver Efex.
The valley of Cuckoo Brook in the southwest of the forest near Chingford. The large trees in this shot are all hornbeams, with an understory of holly.
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Epping Forest is a 2,400-hectare area of ancient woodland, and other established habitats, between Epping in Essex to the north, and Forest Gate in Greater London to the south, straddling the border between London and Essex. It is a former royal forest, and is owned and managed by the City of London Corporation.