Each year, the Lord Mayor of the City of London is invited to visit Burnham Beeches in Buckinghamshire (covered in 2025 here, 2024 here, 2023 here and 2022 here). It is an annual tradition for the Lord Mayor to inspect the condition of the…
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Epping Forest: Celebrating the 150th Anniversary of the Epping Forest Act
This evening, the Epping Forest and Commons Committee of the City of London Corporation returned to the House of Commons, where their story began as the Conservators of Epping Forest. 150 years ago, a legal process started in Parliament that…
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Epping Forest: Historic Milestones Restored
At the end of November 2024, I received an email from a gentleman named Jimmy Waters, who is a member of The Milestone Society and has been involved with the monitoring and restoration of surviving milestones from the Epping and…
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Epping Forest charity issues early call to safeguard bluebells ahead of spring
Conservation experts responsible for London and Essex’s largest green space – Epping Forest – are calling on visitors to help protect its much‑loved bluebells before they appear above ground. Although the yearly burst of colour is yet to arrive, the…
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Epping Forest: Committee Visit – March 2026
As part of our regular series of site visits, today Members of the Epping Forest and Commons Committee joined the Superintendent in Epping Forest to review progress at a number of projects and discuss emerging issues. As local residents will…
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Epping Forest: Historic England Survey Iron Age Hillforts
I was delighted to meet with Historic England today at Amresbury Banks, one of two Iron Age earthworks or hillforts at Epping Forest (the other being the Loughton Camp). These are Scheduled Monuments were listed in 1923 as nationally important…
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Epping Forest: Corporate Volunteer Scheme Launched
The City of London Corporation is the conservator and trustee of 11,000 acres of internationally important green space in London and the Home Counties. It takes an army of staff and volunteers to help maintain these vast estates, which welcome…
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Epping Forest & Commons Committee Dinner
It is tradition in the City of London that each Grand Committee Chairman hosts an annual dinner to draw together the key internal and external partners who work with the Committee to manage our 5 open spaces charities across Greater…
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Epping Forest: Committee Visit to Copped Hall – October 2025
This morning, the Epping Forest and Commons Committee welcomed Councillors and Officers from across the City of London Corporation to Copped Hall in Epping Forest to see some of the projects underway through its Climate Action Strategy. The strategy has…
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Burnham Beeches & Stoke Common: Committee Visit – October 2025
Today, the Epping Forest and Commons Committee hosted a site visit to Burnham Beeches and Stoke Common in Buckinghamshire. It is one of the five charities the Committee is responsible for, alongside Epping Forest (in the London Boroughs of Redbridge,…
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