Epping Forestis owned and managed by the City of London. The Forest is of national and international conservation importance and home to over 50,000 ancient pollard trees and 100 lakes and ponds. Open 365 days of the year, the Forest is free to visit. Winston Churchill, Member of Parliament for the town and the larger constituency named after it from 1924 to 1945, including his tenure as Prime Minister during World War II Epping Forest is 339 km², a 2,400-hectare vast ancient forest managed by Britain’s capital city, London, which falls under the county of Essex in southeast England. The woodland’s 4,270 acres (1,728 hectares) are conserved for special scientific interest. Epping Urban District was abolished in 1974 when the modern Epping Forest District was created. A successor parish was created covering the area of the former urban district, with its parish council taking the name Epping Town Council. [16] Constituencies [ edit ]

grant. (fn. 137) In 1427–30 a complicated series of conveyances, involving many trustees, was executed,

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Restaurant - There are some excellent refreshment facilities in Epping Forest to suit every budget, including the newly refurbished Butler's Retreat café, near the View on Rangers Road. Butler’s Retreat, is open from 9am to 5pm during the week and is now open until 8pm on Saturdays and Sundays until October. There are three tiers of local government covering Epping, at parish (town), district and county level: Epping Town Council, Epping Forest District Council and Essex County Council. The town council is based at Epping Hall on St John's Road. [11] The district council is also based in the town, at the Civic Offices on High Street. [12] Epping Forest Countrycare: Our Places". Epping Forest District Council. Archived from the original on 4 October 2022 . Retrieved 28 February 2023. A104 Epping New Road - between Wake Arms and Woodford. Onward connections towards Leyton and Islington; Bush Wood and Wanstead Flats; extend east from Leytonstone towards Forest Gate and Manor Park. Mostly open grassland featuring football pitches and several ponds.exception there is little evidence of human occupation in prehistoric or Roman times. The main Saxon Roding Valley Meadows Local Nature Reserve (LNR) is the district's oldest nature reserve, designated in 1986, and the largest at 56 hectares. [33] Epping – Introduction and manors | A History of the County of Essex: Volume 5 (pp. 114–127)". British-history.ac.uk . Retrieved 26 March 2013.

Expect to see lots of fallow deer in the Deer Sanctuary, English Oak and other native tree species including alder, birch and beech. Illegal harvesting of ecological features like fungi and deadwood (Please see City of London Article and Byelaws for more details) Please note that from 13 November 2023 Coppice Row car parks will be pre-pay and season permit holders only. Annual Car Parking Pass After the Epping Forest Act was passed in 1878, the name Epping was introduced. This Act stated that the Corporation of the City of London would be the Conservator of this forest. Before this declaration, many wealthy groups tried to expand their property here.Layton, A. B. (1985). "Recreation, Management and Landscape in Epping Forest: c.1800-1984" (PDF). Field Studies (6): 269–290 . Retrieved 9 February 2021. Genesis Slade; an area of unpollarded beech, oak and hornbeam on the eastern edge of the forest towards Theydon Bois. end of the century, the development of road transport, (fn. 36) the town revived. The railway was about ½ entrance gates are flanked by lodges in a late-19th-century half-timbered style and there is a row of

Cannon, John; Crowcroft, Robert, eds. (1997). The Oxford Companion to British History. Oxford University Press. p.465. ISBN 978-0-19-967783-2.Elizabethan poets such as George Gascoigne and Thomas Lodge lived in and around the forest. The writer Lady Mary Wroth lived at Loughton Hall. Ben Jonson, best known for his satirical play The Alchemist, was a frequent visitor to the forest with George Chapman. [69] Spitalfields Life article https://spitalfieldslife.com/2021/07/08/the-anniversary-of-saving-epping-forest/ Addison, William (1945). Epping Forest: Its Literary and Historical Associations. London: J.M. Dent & Sons. Ltd. a b "Tube Map" (PDF). Transport for London. November 2022. Archived (PDF) from the original on 23 February 2023 . Retrieved 28 February 2023.