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The map shown here is a forest overview.
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to view a central forest map, courtesy of streetmap.co.uk,
and link to other more detailed views.
EPPING FOREST...
...covers over 6000 splendid, verdant
acres.
Running along ridges that lie roughly north/south,
the main part is
about 18k by 5k at its longest and widest.
Maintained and managed by the
Corporation of London as Conservators of Epping Forest, three quarters of the
forest is designated a Site of Special
Scientific Interest - in recognition of its large numbers
of ancient trees which support a wealth of wood-boring beetles and fungi, its
old grasslands and heaths, as well as its many ponds which contain interesting
aquatic life forms.
There are over 80 'ponds' marked on OS maps of the
Forest, probably none of which are natural: being man-made for purposes such as
gravel extraction, stock-grazing, drainage of land, bombs, V2 Rockets and
golfing hazards! There are Iron-Age earthworks, Queen Elizabeth's Hunting
Lodge(1543), the Greenwich Meridian; teeming animal, insect and bird-life;
ancient woodland, grassland, heaths, bogs and marshes - and hills with views to
central London! It's a very special place.
JOIN US -
TO EXPLORE AND PROTECT THE
FOREST WITH LIKE-MINDED PEOPLE WHO KNOW AND CHERISH ITS EVERY
CORNER!
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