Epping Forest was given to the public in 1878. It has many
historical and literary associations involving, for example, Harold
II, Henry VIII, Elizabeth I, Shakespeare, Tennyson, Clare and
Churchill. Nicholas Hagger came to Epping Forest during the war. As
a boy he knew Sir William Addison, long recognised as an authority
on the Forest, and saw Churchill speak in his village in 1945. He
grew up against the background of the Forest and visited it
regularly when he was living elsewhere. The Forest has come into
many of his poems and other works. In Part One of this book he
conveys the history of Epping Forest in the times of the Celts and
Romans, Anglo-Saxons and Normans, Medievals and Tudors, and
enclosers and loppers. In Part Two he shows how history has shaped
the Forest places he grew up with: Loughton, Chigwell, Woodford,
Buckhurst Hill, Waltham Abbey, High Beach, Upshire, Epping, the
Theydons and Chingford Plain. An Appendix contains some of his
poems about these places. His blending of history, recollection and
poetic reflection presents a rounded view of the Forest. Using a
technique of objective narrative he developed in other works and
drawing on personal experience to give the flavour of a personal
memoir, he evokes the spirit of the Forest through its best-loved
places and wildlife, and brings the Forest alive through his
historical perspective, evocation of Nature and vivid writing.
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