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Hatfield Forest

Hatfield Forest in Essex, England, is owned by the National Trust. and is 1,049 acres of woodland, wood pasture, lake and marsh. It is in the parish of Hatfield Broad Oak and lies three miles to the east of Bishop’s Stortford and immediately south of Stansted Airport. It is just off Junction 8 of the M11 motorway. It is open to the public. The Forest is not particularly near, nor related to the town of Hatfield in Hertfordshire. Rather, in common with several other Hatfields, its name is derived from the Anglo-Saxon word Hoep-Field meaning Heath-field, or heathland in view of the woodland. Hatfield is the only remaining intact Royal Hunting Forest and dates from the time of the Norman kings. Other parts of the once extensive Forest of Essex include Epping Forest to the southwest, Hainault Forest to the south and Writtle Forest to the east. Hatfield Forest was established as a Royal hunting forest in the late eleventh century, following the introduction of fallow deer and Forest Laws were imposed on areas by the king. Deer hunting and chasing was a popular sport for Norman kings and lords and strictly the word ‘forest’ means place of deer rather than of trees. In the case of Hatfield the area of Forest Law consisted of woodlands with plains. Oliver Rackham, the botanist and expert on the countryside, in his book about the Forest entitled The Last Forest argues that: “Hatfield is of supreme interest in that all the elements of a medieval Forest survive: deer, cattle, coppice woods, pollards, scrub, timber trees, grassland and fen .... As such it is almost certainly unique in England and possibly in the world …….The Forest owes very little to the last 250 years ….. Hatfield is the only place where one can step back into the Middle Ages to see, with only a small effort of the imagination, what a Forest looked like in use.”

London Stansted Airport

London Stansted Airport is an international airport located at Stansted Mountfitchet in the local government district of Uttlesford in Essex, 48 km northeast of Central London and 1.5 km from the Hertfordshire border. Stansted is a base for a number of major European low-cost carriers, being the largest base for low-cost airline Ryanair with over 100 destinations served by the airline. In 2014 it was the fourth busiest airport in the United Kingdom after Heathrow, Gatwick and Manchester. Stansted's runway is also used by private companies such as the Harrods Aviation terminal which is opposite the main terminal building and handles private jets and some state visits. The airport is owned and operated by the Manchester Airports Group , which also owns and operates three other UK airports. MAG agreed to buy the airport from Heathrow Airport Holdings, formerly BAA, on 18 January 2013, and the sale was completed for £1.5 billion on 28 February 2013. BAA had been required to sell the airport following a ruling originally made by the Competition Commission in March 2009.

Horham Hall

Horham Hall may refer to the timber framed late medieval hall in Broxted, England or to the brick hall built in its place by Sir John Cutte in the early 16th century. The original hall was built as a moated manor house circa 1470 but was largely demolished by Sir John Cutte. Further parts, including the chapel, were demolished in succeeding centuries, but the remaining building was restored in 1840-50. Its Great Hall has a fine oriel window and there is a staircase tower on the north side. The renovated building is grade I listed. The present house was built some time between 1510 and 1515 by Sir John Cutte, who was under-treasurer to Henry VIII. It was built in brick in two storeys in a quadrilateral layout with a gatehouse and incorporated some elements of the former building. The house was visited by Elizabeth I both as a princess and as Queen . It is believed the Tower was built for her to watch the local hunt. The newer hall is also a grade I listed building. After descending in the Cutte family the house passed through several owners. It was vacant for a long time in the 19th century before being sold in 1905 to the Humphry family. During the Second World War the house was used as a Barnardo’s home, and after the war was acquired by Arctic explorer and war hero Sir George Binney. In 1968 the estate land, which consisted of several farms, was sold off and the hall itself purchased by the Ward-Thomas family. It is now the home of retired novelist Evelyn Anthony, Mrs Michael Ward-Thomas. Very extensive major work and entirely contemporary repairs on the house and facilities were carried out by Mr Sandy Shand prior to the Ward-Thomas family returning to Horham Hall.
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