Queen Elizabeth's Hunting Lodge

The court watched deer being driven across Chingford Plain from the Great Standing, and Elizabeth I ordered its renovation in 1589. The City of London Corporation, which has owned Epping Forest since the Epping Forest Act 1878, has run the Lodge as a museum since 1960. It describes carpenters' marks left nearly 500 years ago, a Tudor kitchen display, period dressing-up clothes — which the same page marks as presently unavailable — and a view over Epping Forest from the top floor. The 'Tuesday to Sunday, 10am to 5pm' the Corporation gives is the staffing of its Epping Forest Visitor Centre phone line at Chingford rather than the Lodge's own opening; OpenStreetMap tags the Lodge Tu-Su 11:00-13:00 and 14:00-16:00. The Grade II* listing was made on 28 June 1954 as list entry 1293481, the entry reading 'Former hunting lodge, now museum. Early C16, much restored ... Early and rare example of this building type'. Chingford station, the northern terminus of the Weaver line, is 501 m away.