ITS TOPOGRAPHY.
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yards, and turning to the right, immediately after
passing Knighton Villas, strike diagonally across
Lord's Bushes in an easterly direction, by a forest
path which enters this piece of forest between two
old pollard oaks at its south-west corner, and which
leads to Buckhurst Hill Station.
ROUTE D.
PONDER'S END STATION, ON THE GREAT EASTERN
MAIN LINE, TO CHINGFORD OR LOUGHTON.
2 miles to Chingford ; 41/4 miles to Loughton.
A road leads eastwards from the station across
the meadows which border the River Lea. A
mile from the station the Sewardstone Road,
locally known as Low Street, is crossed at right
angles. Four hundred yards beyond this, " The
Hawks-mouth" a narrow opening to the Forest
on the left of the road, is reached. Turning in
here across an open grass slope, the pedestrian
ascends the hill which is crowned by the Hawk
Wood. Passing over the crest of the hill, and
through the wood, he emerges at the edge of the
wide open space known as Chingford Plain, and
from this point the Forest Hotel and Chingford
Station, in the hollow to the right of it, are seen
about half a mile distant.
The whole of the treeless space here seen was
enclosed about 1860, and cultivated, but subse-
quently restored to the Forest. Though it is
covered with grass, signs of its former cultivation
are still seen in the ridges and furrows formed