HATFIELD FOREST ..

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About HATFIELD FOREST ..

Hatfield Forest in Essex, lays between the parishs of Little Hallingbury in the south, and Takeley in the north, and covers 1049 acres, of woodland, grassland with trees, lake and marsh.

A Royal Hunting Forest from the time of the Norman kings, the forest is open to the public.

Iron Age People lived at Portingbury Hills, and have left banks and ditches to discover.

The earthworks at Hatfield Forest including Portingbury Hills, and a large lake and ditch, also indicated that midsummer sunrise and other events were marked and observed.

The lake at Hatfield Forest, and the 50ft wide ditch emerging form it, is enclosed by ancient woodland and endowed with the same mystical atmosphere that exists at Wandlebury – not oppressive, but eerie. The lake itself was formed only 230 years ago by the damming of a stream, but one of its shores forms the continuation of the sweeping half-circle of the ditch into which the water has also spilled.