. Essex naturalist: being the journal of the Essex Field Club. is newly acquired land and water to bepart and parcel of Epping Forest, and to be dedicated to the useand enjoyment of the public for ever. Seldom has an important public improvement been carried outwith greater rapidity and success than this last addition to our woodland. It was only on May 17th, 1890, at a meeting ofthe Essex Field Club, held under the shade of the trees at AmbresburyBanks, that Mr. Andrew Johnston made the first public announce-ment of the proposals of Mr. E. N. Buxton and Sir T. FowellBuxton with re
. Essex naturalist: being the journal of the Essex Field Club. is newly acquired land and water to bepart and parcel of Epping Forest, and to be dedicated to the useand enjoyment of the public for ever. Seldom has an important public improvement been carried outwith greater rapidity and success than this last addition to our woodland. It was only on May 17th, 1890, at a meeting ofthe Essex Field Club, held under the shade of the trees at AmbresburyBanks, that Mr. Andrew Johnston made the first public announce-ment of the proposals of Mr. E. N. Buxton and Sir T. FowellBuxton with regard to this matter, and by the middle of Decemberin the same year the matter had been practically settled. We mayrefer our readers to Mr. Johnstons speech on the occasion alluded 138 MORE EPPINO FOREST. to, printed in the Essex Naturalist (vol. iv. p. 127). A meetingwas called at the Wilfrid on Thursday evening, June 5th,1890, to take the necessary steps to secure a portion of HighamPark, including the ornamental water, as an addition to the The Ching Bkook in Higham Park. The chair was taken by Mr. A. Johnston, and he and Mr. E. explained the main principles and advantages of the the open lands then existed, the wayfarer travelling from Ching- MORE EPII.\(; IOREST. I39 ford Hatch to Walthanistow, and striving to keep within the boundsof the forest, had to traverse a narrow strip of land, known as theDriftway or Sale. This way skirted Higham Park, and waspartly margined by the the Ching Brook. Mr. Buxtons proposalwas to extend this avenue to an average width of 150 yards, byacquiring the timbered wilderness of the western side of the park, andalso the fine lake, so as to secure some water views, a kind of scenerysadly lacking in the forest. The whole quantity of land proposed tobe acquired was estimated at 27I acres. An independent valuation of^6,000 had been made, for which sum Mr. Courtney Warner waswilling to part with so much of his park
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