Hawkwood, London

For other uses, see Hawkwood (disambiguation).

Hawkwood is a 25-acre estate in Chingford, in the London Borough of Waltham Forest, England. It takes its name from the adjacent woodland which is part of Epping Forest. It is about nine miles from central London, in the fertile Lea Valley.

In the 19th century it formed the grounds of a large Elizabethan-style Victorian mansion, seat of Richard Hodgson, lord of Chingford St. Pauls. The mansion became derelict after bomb damage in 1944 and was demolished in 1951. Part of the site is now a nature reserve, a special school has been built on another part, and a large part of the site is being used by OrganicLea, a workers' cooperative growing and selling food and providing horticultural training.

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