82 THE LATEST ADDDITION TO EPPING FOREST. 



demolished and obliterated, and a fence has also been erected 

 between the land of an adjoining owner and the narrow strip 

 which is to form the new approach to the Forest from Low Street 

 on the Sewardstone road. 



On Thursday, June ist, i8gg, a large company assembled 

 on the crown of Yardley Hill to witness the dedication of the 

 spot, " to be part and parcel of Epping Forest and to be open 

 for ever to the public," the ceremony being performed by His 

 Royal Highness the Duke of Connaught, Ranger of the Forest, 

 who was accompanied by the Duchess. The day was summerlike 

 and pleasant, and the fine broad landscape of the valley of the 

 Lea seen from the hill enabled the visitors to realise vividly that 

 a most important accession to the waste of the Forest had that 

 afternoon become a matter of history, and warm expressions of 

 erratitude to Mr. Buxton for his thousjhtful kindness were heard 

 on every side. 



A small addition to the Forest has also been made at 

 Leytonstone. This fact is thus alluded to in the Report of the 

 Epping Forest Committee : — 



" Harrow Green, Leytonstone, was coloured green on the deposited and 

 final maps of Epping Forest as being part of the open waste of the Forest. 

 A small brick-built and timber shed was erected by the turnpike road trustees 

 on one portion of the green somewhere about the year 1847, and the arbitrator 

 appointed by the Epping Forest Act, 1878, had no jurisdiction to deal with it. 

 This shed and its site, which was let at £^ per annum, was recently offered 

 for sale by public auction. The Leyton Urban District, being desirous that 

 we should hand over the care and management to them to lay out and plant 

 the same, suggested that the Conservators should purchase the shed and its 

 site, and they offered to contribute one-half of the purchase-money. Flaving 

 regard to the desirability of acquiring and removing the shed, which was an 

 eyesore, if not an actual nuisance, we made arrangements through Mr. 

 Solicitor for its acquisition. The sale took place on 27th October last, when 

 the property realised the sum of /130. A conveyance has been made to the 

 Conservators, and the District Council have contributed the sum of ^65 

 towards the purchase-money. Notice has been given to the tenant to quit 

 the property on the 25th of March next, when the shed will be removed and 

 its site thrown into the Forest." 



It may be interesting to note the quantity of land in the 

 Official Forest. The original award of Lord Hobhouse, made on 

 July 4th, 1882, estimated the area as 5,530 acres, 3 roods, 

 17 perches; Oak Hill is 12 acres 2 roods; Higham Park, 

 30 acres 2 roods 39 perches ; Yardley Hill, 28 acres. From this 

 total must be substracted the four acres taken compulsorily in 



