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    Chestnut Trail Epping Forest

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    The document provides a map and description for the Chestnut Trail walking route in Wanstead Park. The route is approximately 3.25 miles long and takes around 2 hours to complete. It follows the main tracks through the park, passing locations like the Temple, Forest Centre, and Grotto, and provides a circular route back to the starting point at the car park on Warren Road.

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    Chestnut Trail Epping Forest

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    The document provides a map and description for the Chestnut Trail walking route in Wanstead Park. The route is approximately 3.25 miles long and takes around 2 hours to complete. It follows the main tracks through the park, passing locations like the Temple, Forest Centre, and Grotto, and provides a circular route back to the starting point at the car park on Warren Road.

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    The document provides a map and description for the Chestnut Trail walking route in Wanstead Park. The route is approximately 3.25 miles long and takes around 2 hours to complete. It follows the main tracks through the park, passing locations like the Temple, Forest Centre, and Grotto, and provides a circular route back to the starting point at the car park on Warren Road.

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    Chestnut Trail Epping Forest

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    The document provides a map and description for the Chestnut Trail walking route in Wanstead Park. The route is approximately 3.25 miles long and takes around 2 hours to complete. It follows the main tracks through the park, passing locations like the Temple, Forest Centre, and Grotto, and provides a circular route back to the starting point at the car park on Warren Road.

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    The Chestnut Trail

    The seeds or nuts of the


    Sweet Chestnut are well
    protected in spiny cupules
    that require a warm climate
    to fully mature.

    Native bluebell
    Hyacinthoides non-scripta.
    A member of the lily
    family found in woods and
    hedge-banks in April.

    Sweet Chestnut - Trail route P Car park/start point


    Castanea sativa (spanish
    chestnut) The bole or trunk Short cut Refreshments
    of an older tree turns grey
    with age and the surface
    The Temple The Grotto
    cracks into deep fissures.
    The bark develops a Forest Centre E Entrance
    characteristic spiral twist.

    Start Car park at the end of

    w s, discover Warren Road.


    ro E Terrain This circular route follows the
    ar

    main tracks in the Park with


    pp
    ow the

    some sections across open


    ing Forest

    grassland. It is mostly flat with a


    few gentle inclines.
    Foll

    Time Approximately 2 hours.


    Distance Approximately 3.25 miles/5.2 km.

    Botanical illustrations by Katherine Poluck [email protected]

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    The Holly Trail, Chingford Plain Download the maps:

    www.cityoflondon.gov.uk/eppingforestwalking

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