He was name-checked in the classic Genesis tune " The Battle of Epping Forest " from Selling England by the Pound:

) Epping Forest College, Loughton: Connections, 1991.

He rode about Epping Forest, sometimes in a toy suit of armour, where he became a close observer of animal nature and was able to recognize any bird upon the wing.

The house is located in the countryside of Epping Forest in Ongar Great Park, an area covering five-by-three kilometers.

To the north lies Epping Forest which is in Essex but is maintained by The Corporation of the City of London.

The building is located on Chingford Plain within Epping Forest and is open to the public.

There is a local legend telling how on one occasion Charles II was out hunting in Epping Forest and was caught in a snowstorm.

The London LOOP walk passes through Chingford on its way from Enfield Lock to Chigwell, passing close to Sewardstone and Gilwell Park on the edge of Epping Forest.

* Debden, Epping Forest, England

The area rises from marshland along the Lea to over 90 feet at Whipps Cross on the southern edge of Epping Forest.

Snaresbrook is bounded approximately by South Woodford to the north, the lower reaches of Epping Forest and Upper Leytonstone and Walthamstow to the west, Leytonstone to the south and Wanstead to the east.

It borders the London Boroughs of Barnet, Haringey and Waltham Forest, the districts of Hertsmere, Welwyn Hatfield and Broxbourne in Hertfordshire, and Epping Forest in Essex.

Walthamstow is bordered to the north by Chingford, south by Leyton and Leytonstone, east by the southern reaches of Epping Forest at Woodford and west by Tottenham and the River Lea valley.

Although bounded by the marshes to the west and parts of Epping Forest to the east, there is little open space in the actual town.

The town has a largely suburban feel, containing open grasslands such as Wanstead Flats, and the woodland of Wanstead Park ( part of Epping Forest ).

Monstrous pies were a feature of 18th-century Essex rural festivals ; the Tollesbury Gooseberry Pie festival is still in existence, and other inns around the edge of Epping Forest were famed for pies ( rabbit pie at The Reindeer, Loughton, now Warren House, and pigeon pie at The King's Head, Chigwell ).

Taken as a whole, Waltham Forest comprises built-up urban districts in the south with inner-city characteristics, and more affluent residential development in the north with a variety of reservoirs, open space, small sections of Epping Forest, parks, and playing fields, which together cover a fifth of the borough.

It is located between Epping Forest ( Essex ) in the north, London Borough of Redbridge in the east, London Boroughs of Newham and Hackney in the south, and London Boroughs of Haringey and Enfield in the west ( where the River Lea and the surrounding parkland forms a green corridor, traditionally separating north and east London ).

The borough was named after Epping Forest, the southern part of which extends into the borough.

The Epping Forest Act of 1878 not only assisted in preserving the forest but also helped develop the towns around it: Chingford, Walthamstow and Leyton.

The borough's location between the City of London and Epping Forest encouraged the large scale urban development of much of the borough.

An example of this occurs in Epping Forest in London / Essex, UK, the majority of which was pollarded until the late 19th century.

Ancient pollarded beech tree in Epping Forest, Essex, England

The line was intended to continue from Epping to Parramatta, incorporating the existing Carlingford line, but this section has been postponed indefinitely, though a stub tunnel has been constructed at the northern end of Epping station.

The wombat population in the Epping Forrest National Park has been increasing since a predator-proof fence was erected in the park.

He was a Member of Parliament ( MP ) from 1970 to 1992, representing the constituencies of Epping ( 1970 – 74 ) and Chingford ( 1974 – 92 ).

He was elected MP for Epping in 1970 and then for Chingford in Feb 1974.

The connection at Epping was lifted soon after closure, but the remaining section of the branch stayed intact.

Former MPs include Norman Tebbit, Leah Manning, Stan Newens, and Winston Churchill ( when Chingford was in the Epping constituency ).

The first sawmill in Columbia was in Epping, near the present Fish and Game Club, built by Moses Worcester.

The first school in Township 12 was in Upper Epping.

Schools and churches followed, and the first town " Hall " was built at Lower Epping.

The first post office for the Kittrell area, with Elisha Overton as its first postmaster, was established in 1854, replacing one in neighboring Stanton in the Epping Forest area which lacked direct railroad access, this establishment occurring shortly after Kittrell's Depot became operational.

Epping was founded in 1905 along the transcontinental rail line of the Great Northern Railway.

Epping Forest was a regular haunt of the Essex Gang.

Another robbery was reported at Woodford toward the end of February — possibly by Gregory and his cohorts — but with most avenues of escape cut off, and with the authorities hunting them down, the remaining members of the Essex gang kept their heads down and remained under cover, probably in Epping Forest.

He escaped to a hideaway in Epping Forest, where he was seen by Thomas Morris, a servant of one of the Forest's Keepers.

In 1979, Small Wonder and XNTRIX Records co-released a split 12 " EP entitled " Violence Grows ", which also featured the ( at that time ) Epping based Poison Girls ( whose singer, Vi Subversa, was also mother to Gem Stone and Pete Fender ).

Leytonstone High Road was a Roman track from London to Epping Forest.

In 1741, Epping was granted a charter and incorporated as a town, the last New Hampshire town chartered by Governor Jonathan Belcher before the Province of New Hampshire was granted a governor who did not also govern the neighboring Province of Massachusetts Bay.

An original proposal to run from Westmead to St Leonards, via Epping was considered, but in 1998 the Parramatta Rail Link was announced as part of the NSW Government's Action for Transport 2010 plan.