Welcome to the new Wren website. This site is presently under construction, so please be patient with us while we polish it. And please send us your suggestions for content.

Members of the group are of different backgrounds and ages but share a love of, and interest in, nature and our local surroundings. The aim of the group is to enable people to enjoy, learn about, record and conserve the wildlife and landscape of Wanstead Park, Wanstead Flats and adjoining parts of Epping Forest.

We do this through:

• Offering events, walks and talks about our natural surroundings and wildlife. Our main focus is local but we occasionally make trips to further afield.

• Supporting a nature club for children

• Recording the plants and wildlife we see and inform and influence conservation at local and national level and

• Practical work to protect and enhance the area’s wildlife, natural diversity, character and access.

Members can get involved in whatever appeals to them and are kept informed by our newsletters, posters, web site and by the friendship that develops from our shared interest.

Please navigate this website to find out a great deal more about us and our diary of events. We hope you will find it informative, use our community contact links to send us your comments and contributions – and join us.

The Wren Group’s study area

Epping Forest is an historic woodland lying in the west of the county of Essex on the ridge of high ground which separates the Lea Valley on the west from the Roding Valley on the east, and which extends southwards into what are now the London Boroughs of Redbridge, Newham and Waltham Forest.

Since 1975 members of the Wren Conservation Group have gathered records of the flora of the southern end of Epping Forest.