Epping Forest is a 5,900-acre ancient woodland stretching from Epping in Essex in the north to Forest Gate in the London Borough of Newham, Greater London to the south. It was made a royal forest by King Henry II of England in the 12th century, and King Henry VIII and Queen Elizabeth I also hunted in the forest during the Tudor period. In 1878, a parliamentary act saved the forest from enclosure, and, on 6 May 1882, Queen Victoria declared it to be "the People's Forest". Until the 1996 mad cow disease outbreak, commoners were allowed to let their cattle graze and roam freely through the forest.
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