Lord's Bushes and Knighton Wood
131ac/53ha SSSI (part)
Grid ref: TQ 413 935 (click for o/s map)
Updated 19/12/2010
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Lord's Bushes has many veteran oak and hornbeam pollards and many beech trees as well, some of the largest of which are showing signs of old age. Among a variety of other tree species, along the eastern boundary there is a grove of wild service trees, an indicator of ancient woodland.
Wide pathways cross the wood, fringed by gorse, sheep's sorrel, pendulous sedge and fine grasses.
Knighton Wood to the south-west was owned and landscaped by E N Buxton, once a Forest Verderer, and returned to the Forest after his death in 1930. It has a mixture of trees – predominantly oak, hornbeam and beech with a scattering of exotics like red oaks and copper beech – and an attractive lake with islands.
Visiting
North of Woodford, east of A121 High Road Woodford Green.
Buckhurst Hill and Roding Valley tube stations are a few minutes' walk.
Accessible at all times.
An easy access path runs in a loop alongside the lake in Knightons Wood.
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