Analysis of information sources in references of the Wikipedia article "Walking in London" in English language version.
A walk called the Shuttle Riverway follows the river for its entire length of five miles (about 8 km).
Only with the middle Saxon settlement did the Forest ridge become used in any organized way and, by the thirteenth century, historical records show that large areas were being systematically cleared of trees" (Colin A. Baker, Paul A. Moxey, Patricia M. Oxford, "Woodland continuity and change in Epping Forest