Knighton Wood and the Edge of Epping Forest

[kniteracy]

As part of the effort to get me out of the house more often, we have decided that every single weekend, we're going to take a trip to somewhere, even if it's just a walk to Deptford.


Upcoming potential excursions are actually a walk to Deptford, and possibly a visit to Nunhead Cemetery for the close trips, and proposed trips to Colchester, Dover, and St. Albans for places slightly farther away. While we were certainly see many interesting things along the way (you can't turn a corner her without seeing something interesting), the goals are for us to do more together outside of the house and for me to be able by the time the weather gets cold to walk more than a mile without feeling completely exhausted. We made a good start on that yesterday, although I was completely exhausted when we were done. We'll go back and walk more of Epping Forest another time, maybe even next weekend, and I'll have more photographs of the most protected forest in England.

Here's a summary of our afternoon in Knighton Wood! We have been meaning to do this for some time, and yesterday we just got ourselves together to do it. We didn't leave the house until almost 2pm, spent from about 3-5 rambling around in the woods, and then enjoyed some pizza in Chingford with occams_pyramid, who was then kind enough to drive us to the Queen Elizabeth Hunting Lodge, just up the road from where we had dinner, and walk us around the grounds a bit. I didn't photograph the impressive-looking Royal Forest Hotel, because it's not all that old. It is pretty though: I'll try to get a photo of it another time. According to the Guardian, it might be best to give the pub itself a miss, though. ;-)

Working backwards (we did a lot of that yesterday!), here are the photos of the hunting lodge, followed by a comic book page of our day in Knighton Wood. It was fun.

	Queen Elizabeth Hunting Lodge from the Back
	Side Door at Queen Elizabeth Hunting Lodge
	Queen Elizabeth Hunting Lodge These windows overlook the edge of Epping Forest and would have been a great location from which to watch a hunt.

Comments

[wulfrich.livejournal.com]

1.1 million pounds for a house that dares call a 5'x5' space a study?

I will never come to terms with the cost of urban housing. How can -anyone- afford to live in these places? There are some $500,000 homes in this market, but for that money you get almost 4000 square feet of space on two acres, with a three-car garage and a pond. The median price in this township (one of the most expensive in the area housing market) is $245,000. But we live in the 'slums'--one street over from us there's a property listed for $179,000. Three bedroom, two bath, 2-car garage, 2400 square feet, nice yard with big trees--a very well-kept ordinary American ranch home in a 1960s subdivision. You only need about 150% of the median household income for the county to afford to live there.

So who the hell buys the half-million dollar homes here, or the million-pound homes there?

-Wulf