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Path leading through green fields to Epping Green.
©O O'Brien
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©David Howard
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©Robert Edwards
Dist:0.6km<br/>View over Nazeingwood Common with Copy Wood on the far hill.
©VR6Lee
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©David Howard
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©Robert Edwards
Dist:0.8km<br/>Looking South West from near the Epping Road. The Three Forests' Way lies just over the horizon.
©Andrew Dann
Dist:1.0km<br/>One of the few old style red Telephone boxes left in the area.
©Lynda Poulter
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©David Howard
Dist:1.1km south<br/>This large, rolling field, was populated only by a couple of horses and some farmyard junk. The views across to the Lea Valley were attractive, though.
©O O'Brien
Dist:1.1km southwest<br/>One of World War II's carefully kept secrets was the building of dummy or decoy airfields. Nazeing Common was one of many sites, designed to be a decoy for nearby North Weald airfield. The land on the site is as it appears today, very hilly, not what one expects from an airfield. The lighting was mounted on wooden poles of varying lengths, so as to keep the proportion and angles right in its appearance from the air. The command and control bunkers are still in good condition and were built away from the layout of the airfield so as to give the RAF crews that manned this site some protection. These buildings housed generators for powering the lighting and had an ops room where the lights were operated from, and where contact could be maintained by telephone to the controlling station i.e.: North Weald itself. The other bunker 100 ft further down the hill was used for shelter and a general area for sleeping and cooking. This site was in operation from June 1940, but it is thought the Germans had detected Nazeing as a decoy site by the end of December. The site probably closed by the end of July 1941 as land was needed for increased agriculture and this was put to the plough in August 1941. These bunkers can be located North of the Nazeing Brook on the Lodge Farm side.
©VR6Lee
Dist:1.1km northwest<br/>
©John Salmon
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©David Howard
Dist:1.2km northwest<br/>
©John Salmon
Dist:1.2km northwest<br/>
©John Salmon

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