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    Essex Wildlife Trust is the county’s leading conservation charity.  It has more than 32,000 members, manages and protects over 8,400 acres of land on 87 nature reserves, 2 nature parks and runs 11 visitor centres. The aim of Essex Wildlife Trust is to Protect Wildlife for the Future.

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    Thames Chase Forest covers 40 square miles of countryside around the London/Essex borders.  Thames Chase Community Forest encompasses countryside in Barking and Dagenham, Brentwood, Havering and Thurrock.  Within its boundaries there has been a concerted effort, over the last 25 years to re-generate despoiled landscape and enhance the natural environment for the benefit of local people and wildlife.

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    Thames 21 is one of the country’s leading waterway charities. They are working with communities across Greater London to improve our rivers, canals, ponds and lakes for people and wildlife.

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    If you are interested in the WWII history of Hornchurch Country Park, the BBC produced a programme called “Two Men in a Trench” where Archaeologists explore the site of the RAF airbase at Hornchurch.

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    The RAF Hornchurch Project.  The History of Hornchurch Country Park, when the park was an airfield in the first and second world war.