Epping Forest
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Search complete. 14 mentions across 10 episodes found for "Epping Forest".
Oct 29, 2026
Esther ManitoHOST
I remember listening to a really scary true crime podcast.
Esther ManitoHOST
True crime? Yeah, but it was on one of my long runs and I was running through Epping Forest and I was like, I'll do it when the kids are at school.
Esther ManitoHOST
But then I got lost in the forest and I was listening to this true crime and I was just like...
Esther ManitoHOST
Jesus Christ.
BethanHOST
And Harry Roberts had also fled, but unlike Duddy, was a lot harder to find.
BethanHOST
After meeting his common-law wife for money, Roberts had made his way through Epping Forest and he'd camped out and hidden in Thorley Wood near Bishop's Stortford in Hertfordshire.
BethanHOST
And Roberts was really familiar with the area.
BethanHOST
He'd often visited as a child with his mum.
Alex FosterNARRATOR
Her father was so great a wanderer that her place of birth is uncertain.
Alex FosterNARRATOR
She supposed, however, it was London or Epping Forest.
Alex FosterNARRATOR
At the later place she spent the first five years of her life.
Alex FosterNARRATOR
In early youth she exhibited traces of exquisite sensibility, soundness of understanding and decision of character.
Chris ScullHOST
What about you, Chris? Any myths around Wanstead? Here's the rumour that obviously Dick Turpin would hunt, would be a highwayman.
Chris ScullHOST
He would be robbing people throughout Epping Forest in the 1700s.
Chris ScullHOST
And the rumour that I always grew up hearing was that if you were to go into Epping Forest at night and go at the bottom of a hill, turn your lights off, Dick Turpin himself, the ghost of Dick Turpin, would push you up the hill.
speaker_9UNKNOWN
Oh, yes.
speaker_9UNKNOWN
The poltergeist.
Ruth GoldingNARRATOR
They were armed with spears.
Ruth GoldingNARRATOR
They followed the chase through the great forest afterwards called the Middlesex Forest, Epping Forest, Hainault Forest, and across the marshes of the River Lee, full of sedge and reed and treacherous quagmires, and they saw before them the grey walls of a great city of which they had never heard.
Ruth GoldingNARRATOR
They advanced cautiously.
Ruth GoldingNARRATOR
They found themselves on a firm road, the vicinal way, covered with grass.
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Ruth GoldingNARRATOR
Moorfields was a piece of moorland lying to the north of the city outside the walls.
Ruth GoldingNARRATOR
The city gate which led to this district was the Moorgate, a name which still survives in Moorgate Street.
Ruth GoldingNARRATOR
Kenwood in Hampstead, Hainault Forest, a small piece of wood in Essex, about eight miles north-east of London, and Epping Forest, a larger portion also in Essex, to the west of Hainault Forest, are all remaining portions of a great forest that once stretched away from London far into the country.
Ruth GoldingNARRATOR
Chelsea, Bermondsey.
Joe VassakHOST
Rodney Smith was born on March 31st, 1860, to gypsy parents Cornelius and Mary Smith.
Joe VassakHOST
He was born in a gypsy tent near Epping Forest, England, the fourth of six children.
Joe VassakHOST
He wrote, "The gypsies cared little for God or religion, but they were always sure to have their babies christened because the local women would always come to a gypsy christening out of curiosity, and they thought it rude to come to a christening without bringing a gift.
Joe VassakHOST
So the gypsies christened their babies because it was good business." He gives some interesting insight into the gypsy culture.
Peter NaldrettGUEST
Um, there was so much, so much going on there and so many different, um, ways to, to, to go at it.
Peter NaldrettGUEST
Epping Forest is in there as well, um, on the sort of London-
Greg TomlinsonHOST
Mm
Peter NaldrettGUEST
...
HeatherHOST
I was staying in old inns and I want to thank the Hartwood Group because they provided this old inn as well as the White Hart Inn Lewis.
HeatherHOST
and the Royal Forest in Epping Forest, which we're going to do next.
HeatherHOST
An amazing collection of gastropubs with rooms.
HeatherHOST
Super fun.
9 MINS LATER
HeatherHOST
We went for one more lovely walk.
HeatherHOST
We said hi to some swans, and then we hopped on a train down to the coast to spend the weekend with friends who live in Brighton.
HeatherHOST
And then it was on to my final old inn of the trip, the Royal Forest in Epping Forest, right next to Elizabeth I's hunting lodge.
HeatherHOST
Of all three Heartwood rooms, this one was the most amazing, and I cannot wait to show it to you.
Alan DaviesHOST
Mm
Oliver ScottGUEST
... to Everton and to Forest? There are precedents all over football here and abroad and in Scotland where clubs are relegated for this, and the championship's clearly not enough.
Oliver ScottGUEST
They'll be back up the following year.
Alan DaviesHOST
Mm.
17 MINS LATER
Keith DoverGUEST
[laughs]
Alan DaviesHOST
... and asks us about availability for the Steve Harley gig.
Alan DaviesHOST
I tell him he should mind he doesn't get his dabs on the seating plan, knowing at the time about his motive for starting the infamous Epping Forest handbag fire."
Oliver ScottGUEST
[laughs]
Alex FosterNARRATOR
Her father was so great a wanderer that her place of birth is uncertain.
Alex FosterNARRATOR
She supposed, however, it was London or Epping Forest.
Alex FosterNARRATOR
At the later place, she spent the first five years of her life.
Alex FosterNARRATOR
In early youth, she exhibited traces of exquisite sensibility, soundness of understanding, and decision of character.