Forest Focus Spring 2020

Spring 2020

Forest Focus

The magazine for Epping Forest

Bedford’s or Grimston’s Oak

A 100 years of rambles in Epping Forest

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A cow in the landscape Spring 2020 Forest Focus 1

Welcome The cycle of the seasons is particularly noticeable in Epping Forest and never more so than in the spring.

Spring heralds new beginnings and nature awakening from its winter slumber. Each passing day sees an escalation of action as the Forest comes alive with the increased activity of animals and volume of bird song. From just before the dawn breaks, when the nocturnal creatures give way to those of the day, one by one the birds burst into song. Even after years of experiencing a dawn chorus, it still takes my breath away.

Squirrels scamper around among the trees, and birds dart about collecting nesting material and proclaiming their territories. The woods and grasslands become populated with young animals and mole hills appear as the Forest becomes greener and spring blossom appears.

Spring also brings an increase in people venturing out to enjoy the Forest. Be it walking, horse riding, picnicking, cycling or other sports, there are many ways to experience the Forest. However, before the spring slips into summer do try to set the alarm early and make it out for the dawn chorus.

I can guarantee it will lift your heart and cheer your spirits, setting you up for the day to come.

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Bluebells in Wanstead Park

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A cow in the landscape

Bedford’s or Grimston’s Oak?

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From the bookshelf

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Make the most of Epping Forest this spring

100 YEARS OF RAMBLES I N E PPI N G F OR E S T

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Spring events

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Why not explore some of our other open spaces?

The City of London owns and manages green spaces in and around London for public recreation and health, including Epping Forest, Hampstead Heath, Burnham Beeches, City Commons, City Gardens, City of London Cemetery and Crematorium and West Ham Park. The Open Spaces Department also includes London Heritage sites: Keats House, The Monument and Tower Bridge.

See our website for a full list of sites, locations and facilities. www.cityoflondon.gov.uk/ greenspaces Forest Focus is produced by the City of London Corporation.

Edited by Clare Eastwood Design by Steers McGillan Eves www.steersmcgillaneves.co.uk Print by APS Southern Ltd Front cover image: Connaught Water – Yvette Woodhouse Photographers: John Phillips, Richard Morris, Mark Powter and Yvette Woodhouse.

The inclusion of advertising, logos or website links in this magazine does not constitute an endorsement by the City of London Corporation in its capacity as Conservators of Epping Forest or otherwise of the products or services so advertised.

Keep in touch Why not sign up to receive our email version of Forest Focus?

If you prefer to receive a printed copy in the post, please forward a cheque, along with your name and address, for £2.50 per edition or £10 for four editions. Please make cheques payable to The City of London and post to the address below. Free of charge copies are available from the Forest Visitor Centres and at many other venues in and around the Forest.

You can also read Forest Focus online for free at www.issuu.com/cityoflondoneppingforest If you would like to receive a copy of Forest Focus in an alternative format, please contact us.

Epping Forest, The Warren, Loughton, Essex IG10 4RW 020 8532 1010

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News in brief Suntrap update Suntrap Forest Centre, an environmental educational centre in High Beach is currently undergoing major refurbishment and will be re-opening in autumn 2020.

Through the Great Places: Creative Connections scheme, funded by Arts Council England and the National Lottery Heritage Fund, Suntrap commissioned artist Emma Bond to capture images of the historic building and natural surrounds before the closure.

These beautiful artworks are on display at Epping Forest Visitor Centre at High Beach from Wednesday 18 March to Friday 17 April 2020.

During the Easter school break the Suntrap team will be running family Natural History workshops.

Come along and share your memories of school excursions to Suntrap, or better still, make some new memories with your visit.

For further information, visit www.suntrapcentre.co.uk

Above: Wanstead Park

With spring, come the cattle …

If ground conditions permit, the cattle will soon be turned out to graze in the Forest. The cattle carry out invaluable work by helping maintain the Forest’s wood-pasture habitats. To find out more, see P8–9.

Local children take inspiration from Echoes in Epping Forest Following the successful sound installation Echoes: Unearthing Stories of the Forest at our visitor centres at Chingford and at High Beach, we are delighted that last year’s artist-inresidence, Ellie Wilson, is continuing work on the Echoes in Epping Forest project by inspiring young people in the local area.

Ellie is working alongside the London Borough of Waltham Forest Music Service, Parkside Primary School in

Chingford and the City of London Open Spaces Learning Team to encourage the children involved to take creative inspiration from this unique, ancient woodland and to learn new composition skills. Visits to Epping Forest took place earlier in the year and this education project will culminate in a performance by the pupils at Parkside Primary School at the end of March. We are really looking forward to hearing the new Epping Forest-inspired music!

For more information about the project, visit www.cityoflondon.gov. uk/eppingforest

In addition, Ellie Wilson will be taking Epping Forest to Cecil Sharp House on Wednesday 20 May for an immersive evening of stories, music and visuals. Ellie will be joined by other musicians as well as writer Luke Turner.

Tickets are £14. www.efdss.org/cecil-sharp-house

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Bedford’s or

Grimston’s Oak?

The enigma of two oak trees Few of the many veteran oak trees in Epping Forest have been given names. Of those named, the one best known to walkers and ramblers in the Forest is Grimston’s Oak located to the north-west of Connaught Water at the junction of the Ash Ride and Grimston’s Oak Ride.

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he history of this tree has, however, for many years been the subject of controversy as it has in the past been known by three different names: the Cuckoo Oak, Bedford’s Oak, and Grimston’s Oak. Richard Morris has recently published a short book in which he gathers all the evidence for each name and offers an alternative location for the Bedford Oak. His main sources have been Percy Lindley’s Walks in Epping Forest, published in 1885, Henry Hawkins’s London’s Great Legacy, Epping Forest described by Pen and Camera, published in 1895, John Shenstone’s The Oak Tree in Essex, published in the Essex Naturalist in 1894, and George Rousseau’s Epping Forest Illustrated, a book of photographic views of Epping Forest and adjacent country, published in around 1874.

All the books have sketches or photographs of the tree and some maps, and these are reproduced in the new booklet. The map in Lindley’s book names the oak as Bedford’s Oak, but says that it has ‘sometimes been known as Grimston’s Oak’. Henry Hawkins names the oak solely as Bedford’s Oak. Shenstone gives the alternatives of the Cuckoo or Bedford Oak. 6 Forest Focus Spring 2020

Find out what’s where in Epping Forest this spring £4.95

9 780852 030899

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ISBN 978-0-85203-089-9

Front cover photo ©City of London Corporation / Yvette Woodhouse Back cover photos ©City of London Corporation / Clare Eastwood

@COLEppingForest Epping Forest City of London coleppingforest

Email: epping.forest@cityoflondon. gov.uk Epping Forest website: www.cityoflondon.gov. uk/eppingforest

Superintendent’s Office: 020 8532 1010 Epping Forest out of hours contact: 020 8532 1010

Some important contacts

The Temple Wanstead Park Wanstead E11 2LT 020 7332 1911

Epping Forest Visitor Centre Paul’s Nursery Road High Beach IG10 4AE 020 8508 0028 Queen Elizabeth’s Hunting Lodge and The View Rangers Road Chingford E4 7QH 020 7332 1911 There are four Epping Forest Visitor Centres. Here you can find out about Forest events, recreation and sporting opportunities, look at displays, seek information and buy from a tempting array of Forest related products.

Entry to all Visitor Centres is free.

Epping Forest Visitor Centres

Epping Forest The Official Map

The Official Map

The official map of Epping Forest In research for the booklet, a letter from the Hon Robert Grimston, dated 18 July 1879, to a member of the Epping Forest Committee at Guildhall, was found in the Epping Forest collection at the London Metropolitan Archives.

The letter proposes that a clearing should be made around the tree, but no suggestion is made for giving the oak a name.

The conclusion drawn is that the tree north-west of Connaught Water was only known as Grimston’s Oak sometime after 1879, but when? The Arbitrator’s Map of 1882 shows it as Grimston’s Oak. As far as the Bedford Oak is concerned, a piece of evidence for its location lies in the copy of Rousseau’s book which was presented to John Bedford by the Forest Fund in 1874 and remains in the possession of a descendant of the family.

The book suggests that Bedford’s Oak was located in a strip of Forest between the Whipps Cross Road and the hospital.

Available from Forest Visitor Centres.

Price £3.

£4.99 This user-friendly map of Epping Forest is recommended for anyone visiting the Forest, including cyclists, horse riders and walkers. This highly detailed map ensures you have the best information to get the most out of your visit to Epping Forest.

Whether a daily user or occasional visitor to wonderful Epping Forest, this is the ultimate map to use. It is fully indexed and highlights historic sites, ponds, access trails, Visitor Centres and much more.

Find the best routes, finest viewpoints, heritage features and hidden places of interest. The full index of Forest place names and local street names ensures that you know your Fairmead Bottom from your Cuckoo Pits!

Available from the Forest Visitor Centres and good local book shops.

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A c w in the landscape

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John Phillips, Grazing and Landscape Project Officer, lends an insight into the value of cattle grazing in Epping Forest.

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he greatest energy transfer on the planet takes place every day when the sun rises. Solar energy washes across plants and tree leaves, the ‘solar panels’ of the natural world, bathing them in life energy. These plants and trees absorb carbon dioxide from the air and release it in liquid form into the soil for the microbiology to consume and trade for minerals that plants require to grow. Diverse communities of plants compete for sunlight and space. Their root structures act like tunnels at varying depths, aerating the soil and helping water infuse deeper into it, allowing for the increased movement of worms and microbiological activity.

A cow called Izzy carefully places her hooves as she walks through the wood pastures of Epping Forest. Her hooves trample plant leaves into the soil which will be consumed and recycled by the biology below ground. A small bare patch of soil left in her wake warms from the sun and becomes a lounging spot for reptiles and insects to bask on.

She sniffs at the vegetation, sorting through the catalogue of species of grasses, forbs, shrubs and trees that she has encountered in her 16 years of life, nine of them lived in the Forest landscape. She selects from nature’s salad bar, rich in phytochemical properties and secondary compounds, to meet her nutritional requirements. Her needs are different from her pregnant herd mates. They are not far away; safety in a herd community and tight social bonds are instinctual. Like a shadow created by the sun, the herd moves across the land as if being drawn to a final destination.

Their rhythmic pulling with their tongue as they eat on the move creates a variety of vegetation heights. These variations create gaps for the less aggressive plant

species to harvest sunlight and allow insects to make homes, reproduce and feed.

As the herd moves on, dung and urine are deposited onto the ground containing fertiliser and food for plants and microbiology in the soil. Dung beetles swoop down from the sky and dive into fresh manure, tunnelling and dragging it down below ground where they lay their eggs. Flies also visit to lay their eggs, the future feeding bowl for the local birds to feast on.

Animals and landscapes rely on many interconnected complex relationships in order to function in a healthy way. In Epping Forest, this process of may be found all around us.

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100 YEARS OF RAMBLES IN EPPING FOREST

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Epping Forest has been a favourite destination for excursions, recreation and relaxation for centuries, both before and after the saving of the Forest by public and philanthropic demand in the late 19th century.

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L. Layton in ‘Recreation, Management and Landscape in Epping Forest, 1800-1894’, estimates an extraordinary 300,000 to 400,000 visitors arriving on Whit Monday in 1880. The creation of formal Bank Holidays and the coming of the railway and trams supplemented people’s existing routes into the Forest by foot, wagon and cart. The public demand for fun on arrival led to the establishment of entrepreneurial ‘retreats’ offering refreshment and entertainment – and cheaply priced guide books and maps.

Our Museum Collection and Archive

Here are two favourites: ‘Gossiping Rambles in Surburban Essex, Epping Forest and Beyond’

by C. W. B Burdett, published in 1911, which includes photographs of the Forest; and the illustrated ‘Rambles in Epping Forest’ by F. H. Headley, published in conjunction with the railway companies in various editions from the 1920s to 1940s, which stresses the Forest’s ‘accessibility from London’ by train.

In this issue of Forest Focus we are encouraging you to compare past and present with Headley’s ‘Walk No 3’ from Theydon Bois to Epping.

Headley is illustrated with attractive line drawings of picturesque locations like Theydon Bois church and very clear and accurate tree and plant identification sketches to help distinguish between similar species. Keep an eye out this spring 2020 for all the different kinds of catkins, trees and spring flowers that Headley listed in 1949.

Our museum collection and archive include a number of these: search for ‘ehive epping forest’ to browse our online museum catalogue.

These publications were so popular that they were printed in vast quantities in often multiple editions.

They can be acquired quite cheaply Sophie Lillington on online auction sites if you’d like to Museum & Heritage Manager make your own collection or sample the walks and advice of yesteryear.

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This walk is taken from British Railways’ ‘Rambles in Epping Forest’ 1949 edition.

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he biggest change to this lovely walk is the presence of the M25.

Thankfully, the motorway was cut under the cricket ground at Epping so, bar the hum of the motorway as one nears the cricket ground, this walk is still as delightful as it must have been in those early post-war years.

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Theydon Bois Underground Station

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Here we highlight some of the text, revealing clues as to how the landscape has changed since 1949.

The author was a keen botanist, noting many trees and wildflowers en route, and mentions that the winged seeds of the field maple are ‘familiar to everyone’. Some 70 years on, I wonder how many of us today are familiar with these seeds?

Some of the flora has changed since 1949; the author writes ‘we cannot help treading on the lovely blue flowers of the hare bell’. Hare bells are now scarce and we would love to know if you spot any on the walk.

Other plants are still doing well, the writer mentions that the wild roses abounded in the area, to such a degree that they reminded him of the words of George Eliot (see right).

Some of the views have changed too ‘…at the top of Piercing Hill, there is suddenly a wide panorama before us. Straight ahead over the trees is the red water-tower at Epping’ and at Bell Common ‘All along the Common there are magnificent views eastward over the Roding Valley’.

Many things remain reassuringly the same, ‘come to a stream, along whose banks the wood sorrel and wood violets peep at us’ and indeed they still do. Green woodpeckers may still be seen as one passes ‘Epping Thicks where are the grandest beech trees of the whole Forest.’

THEYDON BOIS to EPPING Distance: 2.5 miles Time: 1 hour Start/end: Theydon Bois Underground Station/Epping Underground Station Terrain: Mostly surfaced rides.

Steep in places.

You love the roses – so do I. I wish the sky would rain down roses, as they rain From off the shaken bush.

Why will it not?

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Then all the valley would be pink and white And soft to tread on.

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They would fall as light As feathers, smelling sweet; and it would be

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For the bookshelf Tree: Seasons come, seasons go

Trees and Woodland in the British Landscape

The Glorious life of the oak

Patricia Hegarty and Britta Teckentrup | £7.99

Dr Oliver Rackham | £16.99

John Lewis-Stempel | £8.99

Long accepted as the best work on the subject, Oliver Rackham’s book is both a comprehensive history of Britain’s woodland and a field-work guide that presents trees individually and as part of the landscape.

The oak is our most beloved and most common tree – Britain has more ancient oaks than all the other European countries put together.

More than half the ancient oaks in the world are in Britain. This book explores our long relationship with this iconic tree; it considers the life-cycle of the oak, the flora and fauna that depend on the oak, the oak as medicine, food and drink, where Britain's mightiest oaks can be found, and it tells of oak stories from folklore, myth and legend.

Explore the beauty of the changing seasons in this timeless peek-through book with beautiful artwork from Britta Teckentrup and accompanying rhyming text.

Following the life-cycle of a tree through spring, summer, autumn and winter, children will easily l earn to recognise the signs of the seasons with this simple yet striking picture book.

Birds to spot £3.99

The Usborne Outdoor book £9.99 Full of excellent outdoor activities to try out in parks, fields, campsites, gardens - in fact, just about anywhere without a roof – this book will encourage boys and girls to switch off their gadgets and discover the natural world for themselves.

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New to the Usborne Minis series, this little book is filled with charming illustrations of 60 different types of birds to spot. Short descriptions provide extra information and explain what to look and listen out for, and children can keep track of the birds they have seen using the stickers to fill in the spotters’ chart inside.

Trees to spot £2.99 New to the Usborne Minis series, this little book is filled with charming illustrations of 60 different types of trees to spot. Short descriptions provide extra information, and children can keep track of the trees they have seen using the stickers to fill in the spotters’ chart inside.

Make the most of Epping Forest this spring Treat yourself to a copy of ‘Short Walks in Epping Forest’

Epping Forest’s short walks book will help show you the way.

This beautifully illustrated guide to 20 walks of varying distances covering the length and breadth of the Forest is available from Epping Forest Visitor Centres and all good, local book shops. This full colour, pocket-sized publication is quite simply the best walking guide for this beguiling Forest.

With its deep ancient woodland, towering beeches, moss-covered dells, and heather-clad heaths, Epping Forest is a landscape of surprising diversity. And there can be no better way of exploring these landscapes than on foot.

Short walks in Epping Forest

Epping Forest is at its most enchanting in spring. Whether you venture out to be entertained by the ‘mad’ March hares on the Buffer Lands, be seduced by the transient beauty of Wanstead Park’s bluebells or listen out for the elusive cuckoo, Location of the walks in Epping Forest in this book

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Point of interest

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£6.99 Key to walk symbols

Historical interest

Birdlife

Leading map publishers, Collins, have teamed up with the City of London Corporation to produce this book of short walks in Epping Forest.

Boating

Literature

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Other wildlife

Deer Front cover image: © Mark Powter

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Route instruction

• Twenty walks, all less than seven miles in length • Many are suitable for beginners and families • Fact files include information on public transport and car parks

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Epping Forest is home to many species of wildlife, it contains thousands of stunning ancient trees, beautiful woodland glades, hidden ancient earthworks and miles of walking routes waiting to be explored. The Forest is famous for its ancient pollarded trees and black fallow deer that may be glimpsed through the trees. This guide features Collins Official Map of Epping Forest and is the perfect way to get out and enjoy the Forest at any time of year.

ISBN 978-0-85-203092-9

Available from the Forest Visitor Centres and good local book shops.

Good views

Wild flowers

Woodland

Guide to 20 walks of less than seven miles

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Spring events March

April

Exhibition: The joy of eggs: Birds’ nests and the Edwardian photography of Walthamstow’s William Vincent

Family event: Seedlings – bluebell walk

Saturday 29 February to Sunday 29 March During public opening Epping Forest Visitor Centre at Chingford A museum collection exhibition to share the natural beauty of our historic bird egg collection and showcase the photographs taken over 100 years ago to discourage the then fashionable hobby of egg collecting.

Free. No Booking required City of London Corporation event

Taster session: Embossed greeting cards Tuesday 10 March 10.30am –12.30pm Epping Forest Visitor Centre at Chingford Join Sidiqua Tabasum and experiment to create awesome Forest-inspired effects on your greeting card using a die cut and embossing machine.

Embossing is a great way to add texture and details to your greeting cards or photo frame.

Free event. No booking required.

Waltham Forest Adult Learning Service in partnership with City of London Corporation

Walk: Discovering Knighton Woods

Saturday 28 March 10.30am–12.30pm Knighton Wood car park Epping Forest Heritage Trust event

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Saturday 4 April 10am–11.30am Wanstead Park FSC Epping Forest event

Family event: Explorers – bluebell walk Saturday 4 April 1pm–3pm Wanstead Park FSC Epping Forest event

Family event: Bat walk Tuesday 7 April 7.30pm–10pm Wanstead Park FSC Epping Forest event

Family event: Seedlings – nature club Wednesday 8 April 10am–11.30am Wanstead Park FSC Epping Forest event

Family event: Explorers – spring nature walk

Wednesday 8 April 1pm–3pm Wanstead Park FSC Epping Forest event

Family event: Seedlings – nature club Wednesday 15 April 10am–11.30am Wanstead Park FSC Epping Forest event

Family event: Explorers – mini beast hunt Wednesday 15 April 1pm–3pm Wanstead Park FSC Epping Forest event

Walk: The lost roads

Sunday 19 April 10.30am–12.30 pm Meet at Gooseberry Hall, Epping Green Epping Forest Heritage Trust event

Taster session: Prints of the Forest

Tuesday 28 April 10.30am–12.30pm Epping Forest Visitor Centre at Chingford Join Claire Willberg, an experienced community arts lecturer, to develop and print your own designs inspired by Epping Forest. You will explore colour, texture, light and shade to make lasting memories of the Forest.

Free event. No booking required.

Waltham Forest Adult Learning Service in partnership with City of London Corporation

Further information 020 7332 1911 cityoflondon.gov.uk/ eppingforestevents Book City of London Epping Forest events through Eventbrite www. eppingforest.eventbrite.com

Epping Forest Heritage Trust www.efht.org.uk FSC Epping Forest Waltham Forest Adult Learning Service www.walthamforest.gov.uk

May Taster session: Capture the natural beauty of the Forest in clay

Tuesday 12 May 10.30am–12.30pm Epping Forest Visitor Centre at Chingford Taught by accomplished ceramist Debbie Maya, you will use leaves and natural materials found on the Forest floor to print onto clay. You will be shown how to use your printed clay to create a pendant, tile or small vessel.

Free event. No booking required.

Waltham Forest Adult Learning Service in partnership with City of London Corporation

Family event: Seedlings – nature club Wednesday 27 May 10am–11.30am Wanstead Park FSC Epping Forest event

Family event: Explorers – nature photography Wednesday 27 May 1pm–3pm Wanstead Park FSC Epping Forest event

Springtime photography in Epping Forest Saturday 4 April 9.30am–4pm

Nature ramble in Epping Forest Saturday 18 April 9.30am–4pm

Woodland birds of Epping Forest Saturday 18 April 9.30am–4pm

Great crested newts with Froglife Thursday 23 April 9.30am–4pm

Discovering bats Saturday 2 May 1pm–10pm

Introduction to drawing from life Saturday 2 May 9.30am–4pm

Walk: Flowers and insects in Wanstead Park

Sunday 17 May 10.30am–12.30pm Meet at the tea hut, Wanstead Park Epping Forest Heritage Trust event

FSC Epping Forest Adult courses

Discovering veteran trees of Epping Forest

Why not try one of our courses located at FSC Epping Forest at High Beach, Epping Forest.

Introduction to watercolour landscapes

For further information and to book, visit: www.field-studiescouncil.org.uk

Frogs, newts and toads: British amphibians

Sunday 3 May 9.30am–4pm

Sunday 3 May 9.30am–4pm

Using a map and compass – navigation skills Saturday 16 May 9.30am–4pm

Learn to love spiders

Saturday 21 March 9.30am–4pm

Saturday 16 May 9.30am–4pm

Introducing lichens

Explore Epping Forest

Saturday 21 March 9.30am–4pm

Saturday 30 May 9.30am–4pm

Creative physical fieldwork

Learn to love pond life

Wednesday 25 March 9.30am–4pm

Saturday 30 May 9.30am–4pm

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FSC Values: Delivering first-hand experience Providing opportunities for everyone Sustainibility for the future A caring attitude.

NATURAL HISTORY COURSES Come and learn something new at FSC Epping Forest!

We would like everyone to enjoy looking at, be inspired by and learn from nature around them. To take part in most of our courses, you do not need to have any previous experience, or any expensive kit, just enthusiasm, an interest in the subject and a desire to learn.

The courses are offered at a range of levels, from beginner to advanced, and are delivered by subject experts. Each course will have a mix of indoor and outdoor sessions.

Courses start at ÂŁ35 per day, and include the tuition, materials and refreshments. Starting at 9.30am and finishing at 4.00pm, unless otherwise stated. Courses run at FSC Epping Forest, High Beach, Loughton, IG10 4AF.

Course Categories:

Trees and Plants Birds, Animals and Insects Art and Photography Traditional and Personal Skills

Book online: www.field-studies-council.org/natural-historyef 020 8502 8500 enquiries.ef@field-studies-council.org

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What are you doing for Mother’s Day this year?

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On 22 March we're running three special services along our scenic line offering brunch, lunch or afternoon tea on board one of our heritage trains.

Visit our website eorailway.co.uk/mothers for more detail.

Stay in style Lunch £49.50 | Afternoon Tea £34.50 | Brunch £29.50

www.eorailway.co.uk Epping Ongar Railway

Stylish, comfortable and best value accommodation set in 108 acres of beautiful countryside. With 40 bedrooms available, including singles, doubles, twins, family and fully accessible rooms, there's something for everyone.

Call 020 8498 5300 or visit our website to book. www.gilwellpark.co.uk

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Go Further Cycling We provide cycle hire with top quality and well maintained bikes, at a great location.

We also have a well stocked shop with bikes and a great range of clothing and accessories and also offer bike servicing and repairs.

Go Further Cycling Chingford Golf Course 4 Bury Road, Chingford London E4 7QJ

020 8524 6626 www.gofurthercycling.co.uk info@gofurthercycling.co.uk

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Visit us Epping Forest Visitor Centre at Chingford Rangers Road, Chingford, E4 7QH Tel 020 7332 1911 Please visit our website for opening times.

Epping Forest Visitor Centre at Chingford, with its displays and regularly changing exhibitions, is the perfect place to start your exploration of Epping Forest.

The Temple Wanstead Park, E11 2LT Tel 020 7332 1911 Please visit our website for opening times.

The Temple, a Grade II listed building, dates from the 1760s and is a survival from the heyday of Wanstead Park.

Epping Forest Visitor Centre at High Beach

Queen Elizabeth’s Hunting Lodge

High Beach, IG10 4AE Tel 020 8508 0028 (during opening hours)

Rangers Road, Chingford, E4 7QH Tel 020 7332 1911

Tel 020 7332 1911 (outside of opening hours)

Please visit our website for opening times.

The Hunting Lodge is a Grade II* listed building built for Henry VIII in 1543 and is an amazing survival of an intact Tudor hunt standing.

Please visit our website for opening times.

Snuggled in the heart of the Forest, the Centre is located adjacent to the High Beach easy access path. The Centre is run by volunteers from Epping Forest Heritage Trust on behalf of the City of London Corporation.

Contact us Epping Forest Headquarters, The Warren, Loughton, Essex IG10 4RW

@COLEppingForest

Email epping.forest@ cityoflondon.gov.uk

coleppingforest

Tel 020 8532 1010 (24hrs)

Epping Forest City of London www.cityoflondon.gov.uk/ eppingforest