Redoak Wood

Wood, Forest in Essex Epping Forest

England

Redoak Wood

Rolling Essex farmland Credit: N Chadwick

Redoak Wood is a picturesque woodland located in Essex, England. With its dense canopy of oak trees, it offers a serene and tranquil environment for nature enthusiasts and visitors alike. The wood covers an area of approximately 100 acres and is situated in the heart of the Essex countryside.

The woodland is known for its rich biodiversity and is home to a variety of flora and fauna species. The dominant tree species found here is the English oak (Quercus robur), which gives the wood its name. These majestic trees create a dense canopy that provides shade and shelter for a diverse range of plant life, including bluebells, wood anemones, and wild garlic, which carpet the forest floor during the spring months.

Redoak Wood is also a haven for wildlife. The woodland provides a suitable habitat for a variety of bird species, such as woodpeckers, owls, and thrushes. Small mammals like squirrels, rabbits, and hedgehogs can also be spotted in the wood.

The woodland is crisscrossed by a network of well-maintained footpaths, allowing visitors to explore the enchanting surroundings. These paths lead to hidden clearings, babbling brooks, and secluded ponds, adding to the charm and appeal of the wood.

Redoak Wood is a popular destination for nature walks, picnics, and birdwatching. It offers a peaceful retreat from the bustling city life and provides a chance to reconnect with nature in a serene and idyllic setting.

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Redoak Wood Images

Images are sourced within 2km of 51.668908/0.090935501 or Grid Reference TQ4498. Thanks to Geograph Open Source API. All images are credited.

Rolling Essex farmland

N Chadwick

Essex farmland

N Chadwick

Approach to Junction 27 of M25

M25 Eastbound showing the approach to Junction 27 where M25 meets Junction 6 of the M11

Christine Matthews

Beeches on Ambresbury Banks

Ambresbury Banks is an Iron Age hill fort, situated at one of the highest points of Epping forest.

Eleanor Dann

Centenary Walk near Epping Thicks

The Centenary Walk is a broad path, running for many miles through Epping Forest. The photo was taken on the descent from Ambresbury Banks towards Epping. This area has many old beech pollards, coppards and other variations on mature beech. This is an unusual tree; it doesn't look like most old pollards, but I don't know how it came to be this way.

Eleanor Dann

Epping Forest: minor stream

The forest covers an undulating landscape with many minor streams such as this feeding a few larger watercourses.

Stephen Craven

Epping Forest: log pile with fungi

A pile of logs that has been left by the roadside, possibly intentionally, for biodiversity. They had sprouted a fine crop of fungi.

Stephen Craven

Epping Forest: Ambresbury Banks

Another winter view of TL4300 : Beeches on Ambresbury Banks. According to the information board, the Banks are believed to have been built around 500 BCE, and been in use as animal corrals until at least the Roman invasion in 55 BCE. Local legend apparently claims the site as that of the death of the Queen Boudicca, though the story has no historical basis.

Stephen Craven

A track in the forest

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Ambresbury Banks

Hidden among the beech trees at the northern end of Epping Forest, are earthworks believed to date from around 500BC. They may have been built as animal folds or possibly as a lookout or boundary marker between the territories of rival tribes. What is known for certain is that , despite local legend, this is not where Queen Boudicca was defeated and killed.

Stephen McKay

Epping Forest

Winter sunshine on the beeches near Lodge Road. Lodge Road would once have provided an impressive long approach to the now ruined Copped Hall.

Andrew Dann

Debden streetscene

The Western part of this square has changed totally in the last 70 years. It is covered by housing and schools, but with some recreational open space. This photograph was taken in Willingdale Road, near the entrance to the playing fields. The brook, which runs from the forest down towards the Roding, is one feature which remains from the 1940s map.

Eleanor Dann

Beeches near Theydon Bois

This is an odd cluster of beeches, close to the Theydon Loop ride and Wormleyton pits. I think that they are really one tree, coppiced long ago. This area is dominated by beech, so there is not much undergrowth, apart from holly in places. Some areas nearby have new growth of silver birch - possibly filling in clearings from old fires (1976 perhaps ?).

Andrew Dann

Epping Forest

This is the green ride (shown on maps as the Centenary Walk) near Furze Ground, a gorse covered slope, which rises from the Tippa Burn and Hangboy Slade. Some of the old beeches here have fallen and birch is taking over in a few places. This is a good place for children to tip-toe along fallen tree trunks.

Andrew Dann