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Ambassadors Wood has some mature trees but many more saplings – principally of oak, hornbeam, silver birch and field maple – planted in 2013 by some of the ‘London Ambassadors’ who helped visitors to the 2012 Olympic Games.

Beyond the second section of wood, go ahead to Central Park Pavilion, walk through its car park, where car drivers will start the walk, and continue on a surfaced track to a signboard at the entrance to Eastbrookend Country Park.

Take the path ahead, later going over a crossing path, to come out to Dagenham Road (1), which you cross at a pelican crossing and immediately re-enter the park. Turn left to the wooden Millennium Visitor Centre, and from its wind turbine take the gravel track which curves to the left past a wooden post ‘N’. The visitor centre hosts a display about local wildlife. Through a squeeze gate, turn right on to footpath 19, which becomes a minor road at stables. About 100 metres from the stables, enter The Chase Local Nature Reserve at a gap in the fence on the right.