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Whipps Cross Hospital
Commoners' cattle in the grounds of Whipps Cross Hospital. Ths Hospital adjoins Epping Forest, on the open unenclosed 'waste' of which Commoners have the right to graze cattle.

© Medical Education Centre at Whipps Cross University Hospital NHS Trust
Your Story: The Forest Group of Hospitals

During the latter part of the 19th and the early part of the 20th Century a number of hospitals, having different reasons for their establishment, were built in the vicinity of Epping Forest, coming eventually under the title of 'The Forest Group'. More...

Words: Dr Eric Dormer MD, FRCP

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