GCSE GEOGRAPHY - Temperate Deciduous Woodland - Epping Forest

Temperate Deciduous Woodland

A Case Study - Epping Forest

• Epping Forest is located in Essex, UK
• It is north-east of London in between the M25 + M11
• It is the largest public open space near London
• It is an SSSI (Sit for Specific Scientific Interest)
• There are grasslands, heaths, bogs and ponds withing the forest
• It covers 6000 acres
• It is 12 miles long and 2.5 miles wide
• 70% of the forest is deciduous woodland (mostly beech)
• It is home to 3 native species: woodpeckers, wood-boring stag beetle and fallow deer
• In Norman times the forest was used to hunt deer
• Locals used to be able to graze…