24 FURTHl.R ADDITIONS TO EPPING FOREST. 



that this is a \aluable addition to the forest. It '• rounds off" 

 Mr. Buxton's gift of Yardley Hill in a most satisfactory manner, 

 and brings that land into full sweep with the north-western 

 corner of Bury Wood. 



Mr. Peter Gallatly, one of the Verderers of the forest, has made 

 a voluntary conveyance of a piece of freehold with a cottage 

 upon it, situate in the Fairmead, Loughton, and entirely 

 surrounded by forest land. This sinks one of the "islands" 

 referred to by Sir Fowell Buxton as being motes on the fair face 

 of the forest. 



In the report presented on the 15th January, 1903, the 

 Committee said : — - 



" On the 13th ]March last j^our Honourable Court referred to us to take such 

 steps as miij^ht be necessary with regard to the offer by Gerald Buxton, Esq., the 

 Lord of the Manor of Theydon Bois, to present to the Corporation the greater 

 part of Bell Common, near Epping, and the waste land along Ivy Chimneys 

 Road. So much of the Common as is situated in Epping was acquired by the 

 Corporation in 1876, but the remainder, singularly enough, was outside the ancient 

 boundary of the Forest, although unenclosed, and after the Forest was vested in 

 the Conservators several abortive attempts were made to jiurchase 

 from the then Lord of the Manor the portion in Theydon Bois, 

 containing 7 acres o roods 11 perches. Mr. Gerald Buxton, 



however, generously offered to convey the land, together witli 

 some roadside wastes in Ivy Chimneys Road, containing o acres 3 roods 34 

 j^erches to the Consei'v^ators. We instructed Mr. Solicitor to complete the 

 matter, and the land has been conveyed accordingly, and fonns a valuable addition 

 to the Forest. 



" The Belle Vue Estate, Walthamstow, adjoining Walthamstow Forest, has 

 recently been developed as a building estate, and as the Eastern boundary abutting 

 (m the Forest was very iiTegular, the owner of the estate proposed a give-and-take 

 line. After we had viewed the property, negotiations took place, and an arrange- 

 ment was made by Avhich the owners of the estate convex ed to the Consen-ators 

 a piece of woodland, containing i acre I rood 33 perches, in exchange for the 

 forest land thrown into the public way, containing 3 roods." 



Several other matters are refered to in the last three years' 

 reports, such as the enlargement of the Hollow Pond, Leyton- 

 stone, at an estimated cost of ^fi.Soo, towards which Mr. E. N. 

 Buxton contributed ^300, the Urban District Council of Wal- 

 thamstow ;f 300, out of the Epping Forest Fund ;^6oo, and the 

 remainder from the Corporation Funds. The pond at Chingford, 

 near Queen Elizabeth's Lodge, has been cleansed and deepened, 

 and the same operation has been performed at the Higham Park 

 Lake. A new entrance to W^anstead Park from the Ilford 

 Recreation Ground by a road and a rustic bridge over the Roding 



