Epping Forest District's 50 Favourite Trees

Published: 23 February 2026

Tom Simon, Senior Countryside Officer, Countrycare, Epping Forest District Council writes:

As part of my role as Senior Countryside Officer, I also act as the Tree Warden Coordinator for Epping Forest District for the Tree Council’s Tree Warden Scheme.

We are looking for new nominations for trees to be part of a new 50 Favourite Trees of Epping Forest District following on from the successful project that was carried out in 2007.

One of the main objectives of the previous competition was that there was at least one tree per parish or town council in the District and it would be nice to replicate that in this one too.

The categories are:

• Trees in the landscape
• Trees in the right location
• Rare trees
• Historic People and Trees
• Old Ages Trees

We are looking more particularly for the following species:

• Beech
• Cherry
• Elm
• Hazel
• Silver Birch
• Whitebeam
• Yew

Nominations can be made here: https://www.eppingforestdc.gov.uk/help-choose-the-districts-favourite-trees/

If this is a project you would like to contribute to, let me know.

We are accepting nominations of trees on Epping Forest, just with a note that some of the more well know trees were included in the 2007 list.

Thank you.

Tom Simon
Senior Countryside Officer, Countrycare
Epping Forest District Council
Civic Offices
323 High Street
Epping
Essex, CM16 4BZ

Telephone: 01992 564175 / 564224




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