Wanstead Flats

Wanstead Flats, grasslands and Epping Forest

Wanstead Flats is the southernmost portion of Epping Forest, in Leytonstone and Wanstead, London. The flats and by extension the forest ends at Forest Gate directly to the south. It now falls wholly within the boundaries of the London Boroughs of Redbridge and Waltham Forest, though until 1994 two parts of it were in the London Borough of Newham: one of these was the section between Aldersbrook Road and Capel Road east of the junction between Aldersbrook Road and St Margaret's Road, whilst the other was the strip running along Capel Road between its junctions with Centre Road (the A114) and Ridley Road.[1] As part of Epping Forest, the Flats is managed by the City of London Corporation.[2]

  1. ^ Report 661. LONDON BOROUGH OF NEWHAM and its boundaries with: REDBRIDGE LB, WALTHAM FOREST LB, HACKNEY LB, TOWER HAMLETS LB and GREENWICH LB (PDF) (Report). Local Government Boundary Commission for England (1972). June 1992.
  2. ^ "Wanstead Flats and Bush Wood". City of London. Retrieved 16 January 2021.