The View (Epping Forest Collection) on eHive

The Epping Forest collection relates to Epping Forest, the 6000 acres of ancient Forest, protected and managed by the City of London Corporation. The collection, formally The View (Epping Forest Collection) was accredited as a museum in October 2016.

Our collection includes natural history specimens, archaeological finds, ephemera, images and documents relating to the history of the Forest and its management.

Objects are displayed on a permanent basis at The View, our registered site, with other items on display at The Queen Elizabeth's Hunting Lodge and The Temple, Wanstead Park. We aim to make our items in store available on ehive.

For more information, please visit:
http://www.cityoflondon.gov.uk/things-to-do/green-spaces/epping-forest/heritage/Pages/default.aspx

Other archive material is now held at the London Metropolitan Archive.

Contact Details

The Warren, Loughton, Essex IG10 4RW

02073321911

www.cityoflondon.gov.uk/things-to-do/green-spaces/epping-forest/Pages/default.aspx

Our site is staffed by City of London Corporation staff and volunteers.

Visitor Information

The View & Queen Elizabeth's Hunting Lodge, Rangers Road, Chingford, London E4 7QH

10.00 to 5.00 pm, Tuesday to Sunday (excluding Christmas Day). Please note that the Queen Elizabeth's Hunting Lodge may sometimes be temporarily closed to the public when we have schools or private tours visiting. Please phone The View to check.

Free but donations invited in our on-site donations boxes. Epping Forest is a registered charity.

Facilities

Wheelchair access

Cafe

Parking

Shop

Function space

Guided tour

Public programmes

Toilets

Other Facilities

Butler's Retreat, Epping Forest landmark and listed building, is our on site cafe and restaurant.

Epping Forest, just a few footsteps away, offers ancient woodland, grassland, trails and rides for you to walk, ride, cycle, play, ponder and enjoy during your visit.

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Postcard of High Beech Church, Epping Forest; Wildt & Kray, London E.C.; LDQEH.2011.1

Postcard. Art. Colour. 'Epping Forest. Queen Elizabeth's Hunting Lodge.'; Raphael Tuck & Sons; LDQEH.2016.103

Postcard, 'Springtime on the Ching Epping Forest'
Art postcard, coloured, used, date '14.3.07'
Printer Langsdorff & Co, 19, City Road, London E.C. Copyright No 671
Message: 'To Miss Bennett From Dolly, with love. Miss Bennett'
Posted to: '105 Somerset Rd Walthamstowe' (sic); LGQEH.2016.79

Collection of correspondence, requests and receipts, from 1930s to 1950s about charitable donations or small scale sale of holly, brushwood, logs, pea-sticks etc to hospitals, scout and guide groups, Bishop of Barking and others.; Temporary

Attendance card showing Queen Elizabeth's Hunting Lodge; The "Homeland" attendance cards - P. & T. Ltd., London; LDQEH.2011.8

Huntley and Palmers trade card entitled "The Picnic (Epping Forest)"; LDQEH.2014.1

Archaeology - View All (118)

Antler, fossil, prehistoric, 9 pieces, possibly Red Deer. From Lea Valley gravels.; LDQEH.2007.321

Cannon ball
Metal
Ambresbury Banks, Epping Forest.; LDQEH.2007.783.2

Hand axe, flint.
Old label reads 'Modern Forgery'.
Circular label reads 'Ex Coll. Walter Crouch'.; LDQEH.2007.794

Slingshot or Cannon ball
Stone
Ambresbury Banks, Epping Forest.; LDQEH.2007.783.1

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Painting on glass, in imitation of engraving, Wanstead Park scenes.; LDQEH.

Framed oil painting of Epping Forest scene, 'Goldings Hill near Chingford' (one of a set of 7); 19th century; LDQEH.2012.1.1

Framed oil painting of Epping Forest scene, 'Bedford's Oak Chingford' (one of a set of 7); 19th century; LDQEH.2012.1.3

Framed oil painting of Epping Forest scene, 'Court Hill Water near Chingford' (one of a set of 7); 19th century; LDQEH.2012.1.4

Framed oil painting of Epping Forest scene, 'Victoria Beeches, Chingford' (one of a set of 7); 19th century; LDQEH.2012.1.5

Framed oil painting of Epping Forest scene, 'Pump Hil near Chingford' (one of a set of 7); 19th century; LDQEH.2012.1.6

History - View All (520)

Billhook.
Accession Register associated with Thomas Willingale.; LDQEH.2007.267

Keeper's Velveteen Jacket, accessioned as belonging to Keeper Sydney Butt.; LDQEH.2007.324.1

A wooden tinder box with two striking irons and a flint.
Original (presumably) shop label printed 'FENTON & SONS, 11 New Oxford Str., London.'; LDQEH.2007.741.1 to .5

1882 Epping Forest medallion by Charles Wiener commemorating visit of Queen Victoria to dedicate the Forest for public use on 6 May 1882. ; LDQEH.2007.291.2

Photograph album
Butt family; LDQEH.2007.980

Library - View All (624)

Fred J. Speakman and Alfred T. Curtis
A Poacher's tale
; LDQEH.2010.1

English Forests and Forest Trees
No author listed on title page; Temporary

E.M. Nicholson & Ludwig Koch
Songs of Wild Birds

No dust-jacket.
; LDQEH.2010.15.1

The Epping Forest Act, 1878
with introduction, note and an index

Robert Hunter; LDQEH.2016.43

Speakman, Fred J: A forest by night
; LDQEH.2010.3

J.A. Brimble
London's Epping Forest
; LDQEH.2010.14.1 & 14.2

Natural Science - View All (272)

Stuffed bird, Kestrel, head down and beak open,
Falco tinnunculus
; LDQEH.2016.27

King Carp caught in Warren Pond; LDQEH.2007.716

'The Brown Owl's Hunting'
A framed collection of owl droppings arranged by Fred Speakman; LDQEH.2007.350

Seven trays of Micro-Lepidoptera and other moths from Epping Forest; LDQEH.2007.343 to .349

A collection of printed illustrations of butterflies and moths.
; LDQEH.2007.1318 - 1366

Photography and Multimedia - View All (367)

Postcard
Two views of Royal Forest Hotel, Chingford; E3.3.1&2

Photograph of three Epping Forest staff.

Cheatle on Spartacus.
1975; LDQEH.2007.105

Postcard
Black and white
Queen Elizabeth's Hunting Lodge Chingford
Published by J.A Brimble
unused; Temporary

Black and white photograph
Two wheeled horse drawn cart of hay, Molt Street.
c1940

J.A. Brimble; LDQEH.2007.964

Postcard, black and white, Epping Forest Keeper's Lodge, from a set of three black and white postcards of Epping Forest.
All unused.
Early 20th century.; LDQEH.2010.23.1

Postcard, sepia, early 20th century.
Royal Forest Hotel & Queen Elizabeth's Hunting Lodge
unused; LDQEH.2004.61

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