Fences & Frontiers Epping Forest Walk

Event Information

Fences & Frontiers runs a monthly walking group for refugees and asylum seekers - Never Walk Alone. These walks give people the chance to explore places of natural beauty and cultural interest, practice their English, and build lasting friendships. Moreover, these walks offer a sense of escape in what is often a hugely challenging time in their lives.

As part of the Urban Tree Festival, Epping Forest Heritage, and CPRE London have partnered with Fences & Frontiers to explore and uncover the magic that hides in London’s most iconic woodlands.

This guided walk, led by the Epping Forest Heritage Trust team, will see the group venturing deep into the ancient forest’s birches, beeches, fungi, and flora.

This will be a slight longer circular walk (6 miles) from Queen Elizabeth's Hunting Lodge, built by Henry VIII for hunting in the forest. We will pass tranquil ponds and ancient woodlands towards High Beach before returning to the starting point, and hear about the ecology and history of the Forest along the way. 

Contributors

Epping Forest Heritage Trust

Epping Forest Heritage Trust is a charity and a membership organisation with a mission to educate and inspire people about Epping Forest, to be a vital voice for the Forest and to take action to conserve and protect its irreplaceable biodiversity, culture, and heritage now, and for generations to come. We operate across the whole of Epping Forest, covering 6,000 acres stretching from Manor Park in East London to Epping in Essex.

www.efht.org.uk

@EppingForestHT

Judy Adams 

Having trained in biology, education and ecology in Canada and Britain, Judy’s working career has been focussed on education, conservation, and outdoor recreation, which she has very much enjoyed. Initially leading school parties around Epping Forest, she moved to Lee Valley Regional Park where she developed and managed country parks, nature reserves and visitor centres and later led on Corporate Policy. Most recently, she was Chief Executive of Herts and Middlesex Wildlife Trust.

Since coming to the Forest in 1975, she has led many guided walks, taught adult courses in ecology and natural history, including courses in Ecology and Conservation at Birkbeck College and weekend courses at Debden House. She has chaired several nature partnerships and charities, including the Lea River Trust and was a member of the Canal and River Trust London Partnership. She chaired the two founding charities of Epping Forest Heritage Trust; the Friends of Epping Forest and the Epping Forest Centenary Trust.