THE
ESSEX NATURALIST:
BEING THE
Journal of the Essex Field Club
FOR 1909-1910.
(VOLUME XVI.)
THE RE-AFFORESTATION OF HAINHAULT
(PART OF THE OLD FOREST OF
WALTHAM).
By FRANCIS DENT, B.A., J.P., AND THOMAS S. DYMOND, F.I.C, F.C.S.
(President of the Essex Field Club).
WITH MAP (PLATE I.) AND FIVE OTHER ILLUSTRATIONS.
[Read November 28th, 1908.]
IN The Essex Naturalist for April, 1903,1 an account was
given by the Editor of the preliminary steps that had been
Fig. 1.—A CHARACTERISTIC GLADE IN THE OLD FOREST, SHOWING POLLARDED
HORNBEAMS.
taken to secure Foxburrows Farm and other portions of the Old
1 "The New Forest of Waltham.—Preliminary Notice," with three Plates by H. A. Cole,
Essex Naturalist, Vol. xiii., pp. 25-29, concluded in the present part, supra pp. 25-30.
Much additional information is contained in Reports of Club Meetings :— On June 14th,
1902, "In Support of the Scheme for the Re-Afforestation of Part of Old Hainhault Forest"
(E.N. xiii., pp. 30-33). June 6th, 1903, "Visit to Lambourne Forest" (E.N. xiii., pp. 245-47).
June 4th, 1904, "Inspection of Hainhault and Lambourne Forest" (E.N. xii , pp. 351-356).'
July 22nd, 1905, "Annual Inspection of Hainhault Forest" (E.N. xiv., pp. 159-160). June
6th, 1906, "Inspection of Hainhault Forest" (E.N. xiv., 255-6).