AFTER the Guardian revealed that a car park is Abridge is being used for public group sex by swingers, more hot spots across the district have emerged.

During the day, Abridge village hall is home to a seniors’ club, a children’s nursery and a doctor’s surgery, but at night it is being touted as a place where strangers can meet for casual sex in public – a practice known as ‘dogging’.

Now it has emerged that other sites including village halls, historic sites and rural pubs are also being advertised online as ideal locations.

Some of the websites seen by the Guardian are encouraging people from London to come out to Epping Forest due to it's relative quiet and open green spaces.

The advertised locations include Gunpowder Park in Sewardstone Road, Waltham Abbey, about which one ‘user’ said: "Very secluded and have seen and joined in some great fun over there.

"Best time after 10pm and a lot of the doggers tend to head into the fields by the information centre. Come and join us sometime."

The large Woodyard, close to the Wake Arms Roundabout in Epping is also a hotspot.

One website commentator said: "Sit and wait but it's quiet in the evening I've never seen trouble. It's a little enclosed car park, you have to join us.”

A car park opposite the Camelot pub in Chigwell in Chigwell is also mentioned on several sites, including those aimed at gay men.

One site says: "You can often watch couples on Fridays, Saturdays and Sundays from 11pm onwards.”

Residents living close to the sites have reacted with disgust to the news.

Abridge Senior Club secretary Yvonne Loveday said: “There’s a nursery, surgery and a playground. It’s really the heart of our village. I’m totally disgusted that it’s being used this way.”

Nina St Pier, who lives opposite the site said: “It’s incredible to me that a local hall could be used in this way. Things like this don’t happen in Abridge.”

The only place which the doggers are warned against is the forest itself, thanks to the hard work of the Epping Forest Rangers.

One commenter said: "I advise no-one gets caught as the Rangers take a very dim view on exhibitionism and are serving Police officers in the City of London Police and tend to come down on people like a ton of bricks."