Hainault Forest Website A mature oak tree with its aquired wildlife is much more valuable than a newly planted tree......!

Hainault Forest

Forest History

Social History

Nature Diary

Poetry

Centenary Day

Tree identification

Photographs

Species data

Links

Projects

 Info and events

Milkmaids or Thistles?

Which would you choose?

Is this how you'd like to see your Common managed or as the Woodland Trust manage it now?

Ten years of Woodland Trust management in OUR Forest

Written, Designed and with Photographs by

й Brian Ecott

Welcome to my personal web site, within which, I hope to share with you the History and Wildlife of Hainault Forest, gathered over many years, whilst living close by in Hainault and Clayhall, in the London Borough of Redbridge. The people of Redbridge should be proud of those visionaries who in 1903 secured Hainault Forest as an open space, for us, forever. We are indebted to Edward North Buxton and the Leaders of the Local Authorities for making it possible.

 

Toilets and Cafeteria at the

Visitor Centre during rebuilding.

 

New pages and revisions

 March - April 2009 Dairy

Oak galls revised

Other tree galls revised

List of all galls revised

Longer healthy walks programme

 2009 Country Park Programme

Opening of the play areas

February 2009 Snow scenes

  Woodhenge - New sculptures

Dog breeds in the park

Acer seed midge - a new species

 

count internet visits
Yahoo Web Hosting

 

Local donor sessions

 

Alfred Harvey,

Hainault Forest's first

Forest Keeper.

Photo: Lottie Harvey.

 

Do we need to be welcomed by the Woodland Trust

in our own forest?

 

Silver Surfer Award

► Many 200 year old healthy oaks and other trees removed.

 

►Heathland mismanaged, destruction  of Petty whin over ten years.

 

►Destruction of the only two wildflower meadows, many species lost.

 

►Loss of Common blue and Orange tip butterflies.

 

►Nightingale lost and other breeding birds in decline.

 

►Cattle to be introduced to all land managed by the Woodland Trust. 

    Restricted access, despite Act of Parliament 1903.  

 

►Barbed wire fenced areas and loads of gates. 

 

►Blocked ditches, some even disappeared. Waterlogging.

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Webmaster email: brian@hainaultforest.co.uk

For Country Park: email Linda Herbert

For Woodland Trust: e-mail GeoffreySinclair

THANKS to all who have contributed to the site especially the COUNTRY PARK STAFF,  the REDBRIDGE CONSERVATION TEAM, and other friends and specialists including:    KEN ADAMS,  JERRY BOWDREY,   RODNEY BURTON,   PETER COMBER,   MIKE DENNIS, SUE DICK,    MICK FERGUSON,   GILLIAN FOSTER,    BRIAN GALE,  OLIVE GALPIN,  VIC GEORGE, GEORGINA GREEN,  GERARD GREENE, LOTTIE HARVEY,  JOHN LEBEAU, DAVID MARTIN, DEREK MORTON, IRIS NEWBERY, JOHN SKINNER,  BRIAN SPOONER, SARAH WHITE, BRIAN WURZELL.

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