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yards, and turning to the right, immediately after 

 passing Knighton Villas, strike diagonally across 

 Lord's Bushes in an easterly direction, by a forest 

 path which enters this piece of forest between two 

 old pollard oaks at its south-west corner, and which 

 leads to Buckhurst Hill Station. 



ROUTE D. 



PONDER'S END STATION, ON THE GREAT EASTERN 

 MAIN LINE, TO CHINGFORD OR LOUGHTON. 



2 miles to Chingford ; 4^ miles to Loughton. 



A road leads eastwards from the station across 

 the meadows which border the River Lea. A 

 mile from the station the Sewardstone Road, 

 locally known as Low Street^ is crossed at right 

 angles. Four hundred yards beyond this, " The 

 Hawks -mouth" a narrow opening to the Forest 

 on the left of the road, is reached. Turning in 

 here across an open grass slope, the pedestrian 

 ascends the hill which is crowned by the Haivk 

 Wood. Passing over the crest of the hill, and 

 through the wood, he emerges at the edge of the 

 wide open space known as Chingford Plain., and 

 from this point the Forest Hotel and Chingford 

 Station, in the hollow to the right of it, are seen 

 about half a mile distant. 



The whole of the treeless space here seen was 

 enclosed about i860, and cultivated, but subse- 

 quently restored to the Forest. Though it is 

 covered with grass, signs of its former cultivation 

 are still seen in the ridges and furrows formed 



