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I arrived in Epping Forest when I was four and quickly came to love its trees and ponds. I saw Churchill speak in Loughton in 1945. We were taken on fishing expeditions to the Forest Ponds, and I got into my next school by writing an essay on ‘Newts’. When older I regularly walked to look at the two ponds on Strawberry Hill. Later still I brought my children to the Forest. My two sons were baptised in the church in the Forest, Holy Innocents. I am a woodlander through and through with an instinctive love of the Tudor aspects of the Forest when Fairmead was Henry VIII’s deer park.
This is a guide to Epping Forest at the end of the First World War, and covers its history, topography (many routes through the Forest), wildlife, and geology of the Forest, with maps. It is fascinating to see what parts of Epping Forest looked like a hundred years ago, and what birds and wildlife could be seen then.
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I arrived in Epping Forest when I was four and quickly came to love its trees and ponds. I saw Churchill speak in Loughton in 1945. We were taken on fishing expeditions to the Forest Ponds, and I got into my next school by writing an essay on ‘Newts’. When older I regularly walked to look at the two ponds on Strawberry Hill. Later still I brought my children to the Forest. My two sons were baptised in the church in the Forest, Holy Innocents. I am a woodlander through and through with an instinctive love of the Tudor aspects of the Forest when Fairmead was Henry VIII’s deer park.
I visited Addison’s bookshop in Loughton in 1945 on my own, aged 6, and William Addison helped me spend my book token on a book on trees.
This book covers the Forest’s literary and historical associations in 23 chapters that cover the Tudor court, Elizabethan writers and musicians, Donne and Herbert, and Clare and Tennyson, with treatments of the Forest villages, including my own Loughton and Buckhurst Hill.
I recommend this book as I go back to it again and again, and as Addison started my interest in trees in 1945, with this book in typescript on his desk. My most recent book The Tree of Tradition will be out in 2024.
I arrived in Epping Forest when I was four and quickly came to love its trees and ponds. I saw Churchill speak in Loughton in 1945. We were taken on fishing expeditions to the Forest Ponds, and I got into my next school by writing an essay on ‘Newts’. When older I regularly walked to look at the two ponds on Strawberry Hill. Later still I brought my children to the Forest. My two sons were baptised in the church in the Forest, Holy Innocents. I am a woodlander through and through with an instinctive love of the Tudor aspects of the Forest when Fairmead was Henry VIII’s deer park.
I recommend this book as I have often gone back to it.
It takes us from Chingford Plain to Fairmead Bottom, High Beach, Upshire, Waltham Abbey, Epping, Strawberry Hill, and Connaught Waters, all of which I often visited in my boyhood and youth. There are many lovely pictures, most in black and white and some in colour, and there are good maps.
It gives me pleasure to be reminded of pre-1968 local scenes in the pictures.
I arrived in Epping Forest when I was four and quickly came to love its trees and ponds. I saw Churchill speak in Loughton in 1945. We were taken on fishing expeditions to the Forest Ponds, and I got into my next school by writing an essay on ‘Newts’. When older I regularly walked to look at the two ponds on Strawberry Hill. Later still I brought my children to the Forest. My two sons were baptised in the church in the Forest, Holy Innocents. I am a woodlander through and through with an instinctive love of the Tudor aspects of the Forest when Fairmead was Henry VIII’s deer park.
This is a massive book, 480 pages packed with pictures of old Forest houses, contrasting past and present views.
It begins with the Forest, deer, and ancient camps and soon devotes 20 or 30 pages to old pictures of each of the Forest villages and places, including Woodford, Buckhurst Hill, Chigwell, Loughton, Chingford, High Beach, Theydon Bois, Abridge, Epping and Waltham Abbey. Press reports from past centuries and the 1980s and quotations from books on Epping Forest can be found on every page to illustrate the pictures.
The historic Epping Forest area of Great Britain is portrayed through "then and now" comparisons, recording the changing scene since the earliest days of photography. From Forest Gate in the south to Epping in the north; from Chigwell and Abridge in the east through Chingford to the great abbey of Waltham in the west, a wide-ranging mixture of contemporary extracts has been blended with more than 1400 photographs, drawings and maps, together with specially-taken aerial photographs, to trace the events and developments which have shaped the locality. The illustrations being combined with a text researched mainly from newspapers, magazine articles…
