The Black Ditch flows westwards towards the River Lee
Post to the north Waltham Abbey
Post to the south Avey Lane
Post to the west Waltham Abbey
Dowding Way.
Link road built in the 1990s
M25
Round Hills Wood
Monday, 30 January 2012
Black Ditch Dowding Way
Black Ditch
The Black Ditch flows westwards towards the River Lee
Post to the north Waltham Abbey
Post to the south Avey Lane
Post to the west Waltham Abbey
Dowding Way.
Link road built in the 1990s
M25
Round Hills Wood
The Black Ditch flows westwards towards the River Lee
Post to the north Waltham Abbey
Post to the south Avey Lane
Post to the west Waltham Abbey
Dowding Way.
Link road built in the 1990s
M25
Round Hills Wood
Black Ditch - Avey Lane
Black Ditch
Black Ditch flows westwards
towards the River LeePost to the east High Beech
Post to the north Dowding Way
Avey Lane
Many nurseries and greenhouses
Avey Lane Farm. 19th yellow brick farmhouse
Black Ditch - High Beech
Black Ditch
The Black Ditch rises in this area and flows eastwards towards the River Lee
Post to the west Avey Lane
Avey Lane
High Beech Village Hall
Manor Road
Arabin House. 16th house remodelled 1800. Said to be where Tennyson lived with Judge Arabin. Coach house, stables and entrance gates
Pynest Green
Hanbury Riding School
Pynest House
High Beech Riding School. The owners began by offering rides on their own horses and then started the school at what was then Packsaddle Farm. The indoor school was built in 1972. The school now has 32 horses.
Gates to Beech Hill Park.
The Rookery. Tennyson lived on a house on this site, part of Beech Hill Park, from 1837 to be near his brother who was in care nearby.
Gardens of Hanbury. Donald Miller bought the site in 1970 as a 19th walled vegetable garden. It is now a leisure park for retired people. 18th materials have been used for buildings and there are games areas, as well as a picnic area.
Rat’s Lane
Bantham Bowls Club
Wellington Hill
High Beech Golf Course
Duke of Wellington. The pub dates to at least the mid-19th
Christian Community Holiday Home founded 1926. This became the Epping Forest Youth Hostel between 1964 and 2008. It operated with a rota of volunteer wardens who opened it up at weekends. Partly on the site of Riggs Retreat
The Black Ditch rises in this area and flows eastwards towards the River Lee
Post to the west Avey Lane
Avey Lane
High Beech Village Hall
Manor Road
Arabin House. 16th house remodelled 1800. Said to be where Tennyson lived with Judge Arabin. Coach house, stables and entrance gates
Pynest Green
Hanbury Riding School
Pynest House
High Beech Riding School. The owners began by offering rides on their own horses and then started the school at what was then Packsaddle Farm. The indoor school was built in 1972. The school now has 32 horses.
Gates to Beech Hill Park.
The Rookery. Tennyson lived on a house on this site, part of Beech Hill Park, from 1837 to be near his brother who was in care nearby.
Gardens of Hanbury. Donald Miller bought the site in 1970 as a 19th walled vegetable garden. It is now a leisure park for retired people. 18th materials have been used for buildings and there are games areas, as well as a picnic area.
Rat’s Lane
Bantham Bowls Club
Wellington Hill
High Beech Golf Course
Duke of Wellington. The pub dates to at least the mid-19th
Christian Community Holiday Home founded 1926. This became the Epping Forest Youth Hostel between 1964 and 2008. It operated with a rota of volunteer wardens who opened it up at weekends. Partly on the site of Riggs Retreat
Sunday, 29 January 2012
Cobbins Brook - Waltham Abbey
Cobbins Brook
The Brook flows west towards the River Lee
The Black Ditch flows westwards towards the River Lee
Post to the west Ramney Marsh
Post to the north Waltham Abbey
Post to the east Dowding Way
Black Ditch
The ditch has been ‘re-profiled’ within the new park and is now the boundary between new housing of Meridian Park and the new Gunpowder Park. It previously ran within the Government Research Establishment.
Black Ditch Road.
This road, previously within the factory area has now gone except as a partial pathway within the park.
Dowding Way
New road built from the 1990s.
Meridian Line
Meridian Park. New housing built on part of the Royal Gunpowder Factory site.
Meridian Way
New road built from the 1990s
Sainsbury’s Distribution Depot
Sewardstone Way.
This road, previously within the factory area has now gone except as a partial pathway within the park
Sewardstone Road
The Royal Gunpowder Factory developed this area, in the late 1880s, on fields of Quinton Hill farm, for the manufacture of guncotton and later nitroglycerin and cordite. Initially laid out in the area between Cobbins Brook and Black Ditch It was intended to bring the whole manufacturing process into a site with rationally laid out buildings. The eastern part of the site contained the nitroglycerine and cordite factories. The site finally closed, as the Government Research Establishment, in 1991.
Gunpowder Park. The Park has shrubs and trees planted in blocks, to make a landscape which mirrors the area’s previous use. Bands of trees are laid out to as if appear as ‘shock waves’ fanning out like an explosion. An area which contained rows of blast testing bunkers is planted with willow in rectangular blocks. Gabion wall of recycled materials. The Meridian Line runs north-south through the park.
Cobbins Brook - Waltham Abbey
Cobbins Brook
Cobbins Brook flows west and south and is joined by a tributary from the south east
Post to the east Ninefields Estate
Post to the north Paternoster Hill
Post to the west Waltham Abbey
Post to the south Dowding Way
Brookside
Built on the site of Broomstick Hall Farm
Broomstick Hall Road
Stouts Bridge which went over Cobbins Brook
2-4 19th weather boarded houses.
King Harold Business and Enterprise Academy, King Harold School was founded in 1952 through the merger of two boys board schools
Waltham Abbey Sports Centre
Hillhouse
Hillhouse CofE Primary School
Hillhouse Youth Football Club Ground
Honey Lane
Leverton Infant School. Thomas Leverton was a developer who died in 1824 and his tomb is in Waltham Abbey graveyard. His wife set up a school in Highbridge Street, for 20 poor boys and 20 poor girls. In 1899 the building was sold and the school was re-housed in an old National School. In 1906 the school moved to Paradise Row and then closed in 1942. The current school was built as an open plan school in 1971 and the Nursery School in 1998
Leverton Junior School. Thomas Leverton left money for education in the area in 1824. This school building opened in 1971.
Cobbins Brook flows west and south and is joined by a tributary from the south east
Post to the east Ninefields Estate
Post to the north Paternoster Hill
Post to the west Waltham Abbey
Post to the south Dowding Way
Brookside
Built on the site of Broomstick Hall Farm
Broomstick Hall Road
Stouts Bridge which went over Cobbins Brook
2-4 19th weather boarded houses.
King Harold Business and Enterprise Academy, King Harold School was founded in 1952 through the merger of two boys board schools
Waltham Abbey Sports Centre
Hillhouse
Hillhouse CofE Primary School
Hillhouse Youth Football Club Ground
Honey Lane
Leverton Infant School. Thomas Leverton was a developer who died in 1824 and his tomb is in Waltham Abbey graveyard. His wife set up a school in Highbridge Street, for 20 poor boys and 20 poor girls. In 1899 the building was sold and the school was re-housed in an old National School. In 1906 the school moved to Paradise Row and then closed in 1942. The current school was built as an open plan school in 1971 and the Nursery School in 1998
Leverton Junior School. Thomas Leverton left money for education in the area in 1824. This school building opened in 1971.
Tributary to Cobbins Brook - Ninefield Estate
Tributary to Cobbins Brook
A number of tributary streams rise in this area and flow north west to Cobbins Brook
Post to the north Pick Hill
Post to the west Waltham Abbey
Honey Lane Hospital. This was an isolation hospital built in 1905 for Buckhurst Hill, Chingford and Waltham Cross. It has three wards and included a farm and its own sewage disposal plant. By 1934 it included Chigwell, Wanstead as well as Loughton, and Epping and had expanded to 130 beds. New buildings included a nursing home, a laundry and a water tower. Under the NHS it became part of the North East Metropolitan Regional Hospital Board and was the second largest hospital in the Group. As the threat of diphtheria diminished so some beds were used for TB patients. In 1952 it was renamed Honey Lane Hospital and began to admit general medical cases but by 1980 wards were used for geriatric patients and by 1982 the Hospital had 73 beds for long stay patients and GP cases. The Hospital closed in 1986. The site was sold. The buildings demolished for new houses which now cover most of the area between its site and Ninefields.
Ninefields Road
Ninefields Estate; local authority
housing built in the early 1970s.
Upshire Road
Upshire Primary Foundation School. The school dates from 1939 but has been greatly extended since. The school originated with a school opened in 1853 and maintained by Sir Thomas F. Buxton at Warlies. In 1877 it was transferred to the Waltham school board. In 1939 it was moved to its present site and became a juniors and infants school in 1951.
Southend Lane
Upshire Hall. 18th red brick building. This was once called South End and was a farm house
Southend Farm. 17th Farmhouse in red brick. Fishing lakes nearby.
Woodgreen Lane
Warlies Park Farm. Farmhouse with barn and dairy converted to housing.
Ninefield House
A number of tributary streams rise in this area and flow north west to Cobbins Brook
Post to the north Pick Hill
Post to the west Waltham Abbey
Honey Lane Hospital. This was an isolation hospital built in 1905 for Buckhurst Hill, Chingford and Waltham Cross. It has three wards and included a farm and its own sewage disposal plant. By 1934 it included Chigwell, Wanstead as well as Loughton, and Epping and had expanded to 130 beds. New buildings included a nursing home, a laundry and a water tower. Under the NHS it became part of the North East Metropolitan Regional Hospital Board and was the second largest hospital in the Group. As the threat of diphtheria diminished so some beds were used for TB patients. In 1952 it was renamed Honey Lane Hospital and began to admit general medical cases but by 1980 wards were used for geriatric patients and by 1982 the Hospital had 73 beds for long stay patients and GP cases. The Hospital closed in 1986. The site was sold. The buildings demolished for new houses which now cover most of the area between its site and Ninefields.
Ninefields Road
Ninefields Estate; local authority
housing built in the early 1970s.Upshire Road
Upshire Primary Foundation School. The school dates from 1939 but has been greatly extended since. The school originated with a school opened in 1853 and maintained by Sir Thomas F. Buxton at Warlies. In 1877 it was transferred to the Waltham school board. In 1939 it was moved to its present site and became a juniors and infants school in 1951.
Southend Lane
Upshire Hall. 18th red brick building. This was once called South End and was a farm house
Southend Farm. 17th Farmhouse in red brick. Fishing lakes nearby.
Woodgreen Lane
Warlies Park Farm. Farmhouse with barn and dairy converted to housing.
Ninefield House
Saturday, 28 January 2012
Cobbins Brook - Paternoster Hill
Cobbins Brook
Cobbins Brook flows south west
towards the River LeePost to the west Waltham Abbey
Post to the east Pick Hill
Post to the south Waltham Abbey
Galleyhill Road
Abbey View Nursery
Paternoster Hill
Queens Head. Dates to at least the 1880s
Cobbins Brook - Pick Hill
Cobbins Brook
Cobbins Brook flows south west towards the River Lee
and is joined by a tributary from the northPost to the north Breach Barns
Post to the west Paternoster Hill
Post to the south Ninefields Estate
Pick
Hill
Pickhill
farmBarn Court - conversion of unbelievable proportions
Road
Leads to a selection of nurseries and vegetable farms. Some derelict, some not, some now scrap yards, some burnt down
Warlies Park
Cobbin Pond. Also called Buxton’s Pond – it dates from the early 20th when the Buxton family owned the house. Features bullrushes.
Wood south of the pond with oak and hornbeam
Wood west of the pond in a wet area with willow, blackthorn and elder
West Hill
Tributary to Cobbins Brook - Breach Barns
Tributary to Cobbins Brook
The tributary flows south towards Cobbins Brook
Post to the west Cobbinsend
Post to the south Pick Hill
Breach Barns Lane
Breach Barns Farm
Breach Barns Caravan and Mobile Homes Park
Fourways Nursery
Oakwood Nursery
Brookmeadow Farm
Path to site of Monkhams Rifle Range
Sewage Works, disused
Maple Springs
Obelisk. The obelisk is supposed to represent the place where Boadicea fell. It is 18th and alongside the stream at the back of Fourways Nursery. It is one of two – the other is to the east of here.
The tributary flows south towards Cobbins Brook
Post to the west Cobbinsend
Post to the south Pick Hill
Breach Barns Lane
Breach Barns Farm
Breach Barns Caravan and Mobile Homes Park
Fourways Nursery
Oakwood Nursery
Brookmeadow Farm
Path to site of Monkhams Rifle Range
Sewage Works, disused
Maple Springs
Obelisk. The obelisk is supposed to represent the place where Boadicea fell. It is 18th and alongside the stream at the back of Fourways Nursery. It is one of two – the other is to the east of here.
Cobbins Brook - Cobbinsend
Cobbins Brook
Cobbins Brook continues to flow south west towards the River Lee
Post to the east Spratts Hedgerow Wood
Post to the west Breach Barns
Brookmeadow Wood. Hornbeam and hazel coppice woodland plus oak, ash and sycamore. This area is part of a flood water retention scheme.
Cobbins Brook. Flood prevention work on Cobbins Brook. An embankment has been built plus a culvert to let water pass through the embankment. There are also Control gates to limit the rate at which water leaves the flood storage area. There is also a screen to collect large items of debris. An existing weir has been left in place.
Cobbinsend Lane
Cobbinsend Farm with 19th weather boarded farmhouse
Maynards Farm, 19th yellow brick farmhouse and weather boarded outbuildings
Fernhall Lane
Fernhall Farm. Red brick farmhouse 19th but there was an earlier building here. Barn 18th Tarred weatherboarding and Timber
frame
Scatterbushes Wood. Ancient woodland with hornbeam coppice with a oaks and ashes
Stocking Grove. The wood is made up of hornbeam coppice with some oak. There is a stream to the north part of the wood
Cobbins Brook continues to flow south west towards the River Lee
Post to the east Spratts Hedgerow Wood
Post to the west Breach Barns
Brookmeadow Wood. Hornbeam and hazel coppice woodland plus oak, ash and sycamore. This area is part of a flood water retention scheme.
Cobbins Brook. Flood prevention work on Cobbins Brook. An embankment has been built plus a culvert to let water pass through the embankment. There are also Control gates to limit the rate at which water leaves the flood storage area. There is also a screen to collect large items of debris. An existing weir has been left in place.
Cobbinsend Lane
Cobbinsend Farm with 19th weather boarded farmhouse
Maynards Farm, 19th yellow brick farmhouse and weather boarded outbuildings
Fernhall Lane
Fernhall Farm. Red brick farmhouse 19th but there was an earlier building here. Barn 18th Tarred weatherboarding and Timber
frame
Scatterbushes Wood. Ancient woodland with hornbeam coppice with a oaks and ashes
Stocking Grove. The wood is made up of hornbeam coppice with some oak. There is a stream to the north part of the wood
Friday, 27 January 2012
Cobbins Brook - Spratt's Hedgerow
Cobbins Brook
Cobbins Brook flows west towards the River Lee
Post to the east Copped Hall Estate
Post to the north Parvill
Post to the west Cobbinsend
Rookery Wood. Woodland with oak and hornbeam. There are also planted hybrid poplars. There is a crescent-shaped lake on the eastern side which was part of the landscaping of Copped Hall and called the Lagoon and Fish Canal. It is now an area of sedge, alder and willow
Spratts Hedgerow Wood. This is an ancient woodland with several important oaks as well as hornbeam and hazel coppice. There are bridle paths throughout.
Pillbox – a brick and concrete pillbox part of the defence of the Outer London Stop Line ring. It is on the north east corner of sprat’s hedgerow wood.
Outer London Defence Ring anti-tank ditch can be seen for a short distance as a small gully running from the pillbox near Cobbins Brook
Cobbins Brook flows west towards the River Lee
Post to the east Copped Hall Estate
Post to the north Parvill
Post to the west Cobbinsend
Rookery Wood. Woodland with oak and hornbeam. There are also planted hybrid poplars. There is a crescent-shaped lake on the eastern side which was part of the landscaping of Copped Hall and called the Lagoon and Fish Canal. It is now an area of sedge, alder and willow
Spratts Hedgerow Wood. This is an ancient woodland with several important oaks as well as hornbeam and hazel coppice. There are bridle paths throughout.
Pillbox – a brick and concrete pillbox part of the defence of the Outer London Stop Line ring. It is on the north east corner of sprat’s hedgerow wood.
Outer London Defence Ring anti-tank ditch can be seen for a short distance as a small gully running from the pillbox near Cobbins Brook
Tributary to Cobbins Brook - Parvill
Tributary to Cobbins Brook
The tributary flows south towards Cobbins Brook
Post to the east Orange Wood
Post to the south Spratt's Hedgerow Wood
Road
The road to Parvill from All Saints church links the medieval manors of the area and is thus likely to be ancient
Outer London Defence Stop Line Ditch– this crossed the field from Parvills Farm gate and then continued along the field boundary to the corner of Gills Plantation
Balhill Wood. This is ancient woodland containing Oak and Hornbeam coppice. There is also some planted Scots Pine and Larch.
Pillbox An octagonal brick and concrete pillbox stands near the north east edge of the wood. This was part of the structure of the Outer London Ring anti-tank ditch
Parvill. Farmhouse. This is 16th including part of an earlier building. It is Timber framed and plastered and with many ancient features still in place. There is a puddingstone boulder near the gate. A Second World War pillbox stood by the gate as part of the defence of the Outer London Stop Line. Some small pieces of concrete remain,
Barn and granary from the 16th also Timber framed and weather boarded which is now converted to housing.
Gills Plantation. A plantation containing oak, ash and hazel. There is a bridle path lined with pines. Pillbox. An octagonal structure of brick and concrete on the north east corner as part of the Outer London Defence Ring and Ditch. It is adjacent to a water filled gully.
The tributary flows south towards Cobbins Brook
Post to the east Orange Wood
Post to the south Spratt's Hedgerow Wood
Road
The road to Parvill from All Saints church links the medieval manors of the area and is thus likely to be ancient
Outer London Defence Stop Line Ditch– this crossed the field from Parvills Farm gate and then continued along the field boundary to the corner of Gills Plantation
Balhill Wood. This is ancient woodland containing Oak and Hornbeam coppice. There is also some planted Scots Pine and Larch.
Pillbox An octagonal brick and concrete pillbox stands near the north east edge of the wood. This was part of the structure of the Outer London Ring anti-tank ditch
Parvill. Farmhouse. This is 16th including part of an earlier building. It is Timber framed and plastered and with many ancient features still in place. There is a puddingstone boulder near the gate. A Second World War pillbox stood by the gate as part of the defence of the Outer London Stop Line. Some small pieces of concrete remain,
Barn and granary from the 16th also Timber framed and weather boarded which is now converted to housing.
Gills Plantation. A plantation containing oak, ash and hazel. There is a bridle path lined with pines. Pillbox. An octagonal structure of brick and concrete on the north east corner as part of the Outer London Defence Ring and Ditch. It is adjacent to a water filled gully.
Cobbins Brook - Orange Wood
Cobbins Brook
Cobbins Brook flows south west towards the River Lee and is joined by a tributary from the south and another from the north.
Post to the north Epping Upland
Post to the east Bury Farm
Post to the south Copped Hall Estate
Post to the west Parvill
Gills Farm.
Gills was a manor of Epping and took its name from that of a family which were Waltham Abbey’s tenants there, and it later became part of the Copped Hall Estate. The farmhouse is a 16th building, timber-framed, plastered, and weather-boarded. Like every other manor in the area - there is also a moat.
Orange Field Plantation
Oak in a plantation with scots pine and poplar. There is also some coppiced hazel and some other self generating woodland. There are paths and bridle paths and a pond.
Orange Peel
A strip of oak woodland
Orange Wood
Oak woodland with some other trees and in a wood criss-crossed with bridle paths.
Cobbins Brook flows south west towards the River Lee and is joined by a tributary from the south and another from the north.
Post to the north Epping Upland
Post to the east Bury Farm
Post to the south Copped Hall Estate
Post to the west Parvill
Gills Farm.
Gills was a manor of Epping and took its name from that of a family which were Waltham Abbey’s tenants there, and it later became part of the Copped Hall Estate. The farmhouse is a 16th building, timber-framed, plastered, and weather-boarded. Like every other manor in the area - there is also a moat.
Orange Field Plantation
Oak in a plantation with scots pine and poplar. There is also some coppiced hazel and some other self generating woodland. There are paths and bridle paths and a pond.
Orange Peel
A strip of oak woodland
Orange Wood
Oak woodland with some other trees and in a wood criss-crossed with bridle paths.
Tributary to Cobbins Book - Copped Hall Estate
Tributary to Cobbins Brook
The tributary flows northwards towards Cobbins Brook
Post to the south Copped Hall Estate
Post to the north Orange Wood
Post to the west Spratt's Hedgerow Wood
Fitches Plantation
Rectangle of woodland with a strip projecting from the north east corner and a pond in the same area. There is oak with hawthorn, elm, elder and sycamore.
Pillbox at the tip of the projection. Octagonal and built of brick and concrete
Outer London Defence Ring – ran north-south down the eastern edge of Fitches Plantation
Little Rookery Wood
Oak woodland plus an area of hornbeam near the centre. There are paths and bridleways through the wood
Pondfield Plantation
Ash and hazel woodland
Spratts Hedgerow
A narrow stretch of wood with poplar and scots pine recently planted
Pillbox of brick and concrete, octagonal pillbox hidden in woodland on the north east corner of the wood
Tributary Stream
In parts this stream acted as part of the anti-tank ditch built as part of the Outer London Stop Line.
The tributary flows northwards towards Cobbins Brook
Post to the south Copped Hall Estate
Post to the north Orange Wood
Post to the west Spratt's Hedgerow Wood
Fitches Plantation
Rectangle of woodland with a strip projecting from the north east corner and a pond in the same area. There is oak with hawthorn, elm, elder and sycamore.
Pillbox at the tip of the projection. Octagonal and built of brick and concrete
Outer London Defence Ring – ran north-south down the eastern edge of Fitches Plantation
Little Rookery Wood
Oak woodland plus an area of hornbeam near the centre. There are paths and bridleways through the wood
Pondfield Plantation
Ash and hazel woodland
Spratts Hedgerow
A narrow stretch of wood with poplar and scots pine recently planted
Pillbox of brick and concrete, octagonal pillbox hidden in woodland on the north east corner of the wood
Tributary Stream
In parts this stream acted as part of the anti-tank ditch built as part of the Outer London Stop Line.
Cobbins Brook - Copped Hall Estate
Tributary
to the Cobbins Brook
The Tributary flows north towards Cobbins Brook
Post to the south Ambresbury Banks
Post to the north Copped Hall Estate
Road between Copped Hall and Epping Road
Concrete pillbox stands in woodland on the south side. This is part of the Outer London Defence ring guarding the anti tank ditch
Copped Hall
Copped Hall Home Farm. The farmhouse is a red brick 19th building. Dairy red brick 19th model farm building
Lake. This is a manmade feature east of the mansion, has an island, a summerhouse and a collapsed boathouse. There is some carp fishing. Pillbox on south west corner of the lake. This is part of the Outer London Defence ring guarding the anti tank ditch.
The White House. 19thEstate house in a 16th vernacular style.
The Tributary flows north towards Cobbins Brook
Post to the south Ambresbury Banks
Post to the north Copped Hall Estate
Road between Copped Hall and Epping Road
Concrete pillbox stands in woodland on the south side. This is part of the Outer London Defence ring guarding the anti tank ditch
Copped Hall
Copped Hall Home Farm. The farmhouse is a red brick 19th building. Dairy red brick 19th model farm building
Lake. This is a manmade feature east of the mansion, has an island, a summerhouse and a collapsed boathouse. There is some carp fishing. Pillbox on south west corner of the lake. This is part of the Outer London Defence ring guarding the anti tank ditch.
The White House. 19thEstate house in a 16th vernacular style.
Thursday, 26 January 2012
Cobbins Brook - Bury Farm
Cobbins Brook
Cobbins Brook flows south west
towards the River Lee and is joined by a tributary from the south east.Post to the north Epping Upland
Post to the east Epping
Post to the west Orange Wood
Bury Lane
Bury Farm. This was a possession of Waltham Abbey from the 11th until the dissolution. The farmhouse is 16th a timber framed and plastered building. The farm comprises 18th ranges and a listed 17th barn. Outside the yard is a 19th cart lodge. All of these are timber framed. There is also a modern pre-fabricated cow shed and circular horse management area. There is one arm of a moat and filled ponds.
Epping Road
Cobbins Bridge
Tributary to Cobbins Brook - Epping
Tributary
to Cobbins Brook
The tributary rises in this area and flows North West towards the brook
Post to the north Epping
Bakers Lane
Archimedean Ironworks established by William Cottis in 1858, which made metal products. Demolished in the 20th century
Bolt Cellar Lane
A bridle way bordered with a large hedgerow
Bury Lane
Epping Burial Ground opened 1911. There are 3 graves of casualties from the Great War and 20, from the Second World War
Coronation Hill
Epping Primary School
High Street
88 & 90. 18TH houses with modern shops on the ground floor.
98 - 102 The Cottage. 17th plastered houses
St. John the Baptist. Built in 1889 on the site of a chapel of ease to All Saints at Epping Upland. It began in the 14th as a chapel belonging to Waltham Abbey and after the dissolution a vicar was appointed under the Bishop of London. This was confirmed by the crown but it was given to John Cocks of Broxbourne but retaining the rights of people from Epping for use for divine services. It was later sold on, including a house called Chapel Hall, but the same provision applied to the chapel. It was later regarded as a chapel-of-ease to All Saints, and served by their vicar until 1764 and then trustees employed a chaplain with the vicar as a trustee. In 1824 it received grants from Queen Anne's Bounty, and in it became the parish church in 1888. The chapel had been enlarged in 1622, and further work done in successive years and then various rebuilding schemes considered. It was rebuilt in in 1832 the chapel was rebuilt to the designs of S. M. Hubert and money in legacies allowed more work to be done. In 1889, it was demolished and replaced by a building, designed by Bodley and Garner, and there have been additions to this since.
Markets were held here from the early middle ages, and there were two successive market houses here, both now gone. The first was alongside the chapel which was the predecessor to St.John’s church.
123 Council depot & National House offices
117a Hawthorn Lodge. This was used as Council offices until 1972.
Fire station
Epping Methodist Church. Built 1887 when the congregation moved here from Hemnal Street.
Barclays – this was previously the Duke of York, pub
Drinking trough and monument. This was originally erected in 1887 and money raised by public subscription. In 1961 it was removed by the Council during redevelopment and used as landfill at the rear of the Baptist Church. Then in the 1970s and 1980s people tried to find it and specialist equipment failed to find it but eventually excavators retrieved it by chance and in 1989 it was replaced.
Empire Cinema was opposite the Church. and it closed in 1954. Originally built as a town hall it opened in 1912 having been a skating rink and by the early 1920’s was operated by Shipman & King. It was reopened 1924, and re-named Picture Palace, but was partly burnt down in 1935, and was re-built as the Empire. It became a Tesco supermarket and is now a photographic studio
Lower Swaines
Lower Swaines recreation ground
Swaines Green Nature Reserve is a green corridor between two sections of Epping Forest. It is made up of four fields. Forties Field which is now scrub typically thickets of oak, ash, hawthorn and blackthorn and some grassland. Lower Lincoln’s Field with grassland. Middle Lincoln's Field grassland with a water source and water plants. Lovelocks Meadow with few trees and some scrub
St.Johns Road
This was originally a small road, called Chapel Lane, giving access to the National School
5, 7, 9, 11, 11a, 15 18th houses with white weather boarded fronts
Epping Hall. New building on the site of a previous hall inherited from the Women’s Institute
Epping Primary School. In 19th national school building previously used byEssex County Council as an Adult Education Centre
Epping Library
Tower Road
St. John’s Church of England School. Specialist engineering college.
The tributary rises in this area and flows North West towards the brook
Post to the north Epping
Bakers Lane
Archimedean Ironworks established by William Cottis in 1858, which made metal products. Demolished in the 20th century
Bolt Cellar Lane
A bridle way bordered with a large hedgerow
Bury Lane
Epping Burial Ground opened 1911. There are 3 graves of casualties from the Great War and 20, from the Second World War
Coronation Hill
Epping Primary School
High Street
88 & 90. 18TH houses with modern shops on the ground floor.
98 - 102 The Cottage. 17th plastered houses
St. John the Baptist. Built in 1889 on the site of a chapel of ease to All Saints at Epping Upland. It began in the 14th as a chapel belonging to Waltham Abbey and after the dissolution a vicar was appointed under the Bishop of London. This was confirmed by the crown but it was given to John Cocks of Broxbourne but retaining the rights of people from Epping for use for divine services. It was later sold on, including a house called Chapel Hall, but the same provision applied to the chapel. It was later regarded as a chapel-of-ease to All Saints, and served by their vicar until 1764 and then trustees employed a chaplain with the vicar as a trustee. In 1824 it received grants from Queen Anne's Bounty, and in it became the parish church in 1888. The chapel had been enlarged in 1622, and further work done in successive years and then various rebuilding schemes considered. It was rebuilt in in 1832 the chapel was rebuilt to the designs of S. M. Hubert and money in legacies allowed more work to be done. In 1889, it was demolished and replaced by a building, designed by Bodley and Garner, and there have been additions to this since.
Markets were held here from the early middle ages, and there were two successive market houses here, both now gone. The first was alongside the chapel which was the predecessor to St.John’s church.
123 Council depot & National House offices
117a Hawthorn Lodge. This was used as Council offices until 1972.
Fire station
Epping Methodist Church. Built 1887 when the congregation moved here from Hemnal Street.
Barclays – this was previously the Duke of York, pub
Drinking trough and monument. This was originally erected in 1887 and money raised by public subscription. In 1961 it was removed by the Council during redevelopment and used as landfill at the rear of the Baptist Church. Then in the 1970s and 1980s people tried to find it and specialist equipment failed to find it but eventually excavators retrieved it by chance and in 1989 it was replaced.
Empire Cinema was opposite the Church. and it closed in 1954. Originally built as a town hall it opened in 1912 having been a skating rink and by the early 1920’s was operated by Shipman & King. It was reopened 1924, and re-named Picture Palace, but was partly burnt down in 1935, and was re-built as the Empire. It became a Tesco supermarket and is now a photographic studio
Lower Swaines
Lower Swaines recreation ground
Swaines Green Nature Reserve is a green corridor between two sections of Epping Forest. It is made up of four fields. Forties Field which is now scrub typically thickets of oak, ash, hawthorn and blackthorn and some grassland. Lower Lincoln’s Field with grassland. Middle Lincoln's Field grassland with a water source and water plants. Lovelocks Meadow with few trees and some scrub
St.Johns Road
This was originally a small road, called Chapel Lane, giving access to the National School
5, 7, 9, 11, 11a, 15 18th houses with white weather boarded fronts
Epping Hall. New building on the site of a previous hall inherited from the Women’s Institute
Epping Primary School. In 19th national school building previously used byEssex County Council as an Adult Education Centre
Epping Library
Tower Road
St. John’s Church of England School. Specialist engineering college.
Wednesday, 25 January 2012
Cobbins Brook - Epping Upland
Cobbins Brook
Cobbins Brook flows from two sources south west towards the Lee. It is joined by a tributary from the south east and another from the north west.
Post to the north Marles Farm
Post to the west Epping Upland
Upland Road
Hayleys Manor Farm. 19th red brick farmhouse which is on the site of the original medieval Hayleys manor. This was one of the original manor of Epping and took its name from a 14th family. In 1840 the manor was owned by the parish of St. Anne and St. Agnes, Aldersgate but was later merged in the Copped Hall estate. Part of the moat survives near the stream to the west of the house.
Pinch Timber Farm. Farmhouse 16th Timber framed and weather boarded .18th Barn, timber framed and weather boarded
Cobbins Brook flows from two sources south west towards the Lee. It is joined by a tributary from the south east and another from the north west.
Post to the north Marles Farm
Post to the west Epping Upland
Upland Road
Hayleys Manor Farm. 19th red brick farmhouse which is on the site of the original medieval Hayleys manor. This was one of the original manor of Epping and took its name from a 14th family. In 1840 the manor was owned by the parish of St. Anne and St. Agnes, Aldersgate but was later merged in the Copped Hall estate. Part of the moat survives near the stream to the west of the house.
Pinch Timber Farm. Farmhouse 16th Timber framed and weather boarded .18th Barn, timber framed and weather boarded
Tributary to Cobbins Brook - Epping Upland
Tributary to Cobbins Brook
The tributary flows north east towards Cobbins BrookPost to the north Shingle Hall
Post to the west Epping Upland
Post to the east Epping Upland
Post to the south Bury Farm
Epping Road
All Saints Church. This was the original church for Epping, of which the church in the town was a chapel of ease. It is built of flint rubble covered in pebble- dash. The nave appears to be 13th and there have been many additions since. It was originally a possession of Waltham Abbey passing to the Crown at the dissolution. There is a 16th red brick tower. There are six bells and a bell chamber in the tower with notices about notable ringing sessions. Also on the tower is a clock – which is fixed on a place where it can be seen by latecomers from Epping. There are many monuments including a brass to Palmer, Professor of Common Law at Cambridge. John Overall was vicar here in 1592; he is one of the people who helped translate the Authorised Version.
Churchyard. There is a mounting block outside the church. There is a Giant Redwood, Wellingtonia alongside the church
Elm Cottage. 18th house in red brick originally used as the church house. In the early 19th it became the Chequers pub. Now housing.
Upland Road
Takeleys. This was a manor once called Claygarth, taking its name from 15th tenants. It is a 17th timber frame house, with inside a carved fireplace and 17th floral wall painting. The surrounding moat is almost complete.
Takeleys Farm Cottages
Eppingbury Farm. Owned by Waltham Abbey this was the original manor for the area. The manor house lay to the south of here at Bury Road.
Tuesday, 24 January 2012
Tributary to Cobbins Brook - Epping
Tributary to Cobbins Brook
The Tributary flows north west towards Cobbins Brook
Another tributary flows north west towards Cobbins Brook
Post to the east Wintry Park
Post to the south Epping
Post to the west Bury Farm
Lindsey Street
Shaftesbury Farm
The Tributary flows north west towards Cobbins Brook
Another tributary flows north west towards Cobbins Brook
Post to the east Wintry Park
Post to the south Epping
Post to the west Bury Farm
Lindsey Street
Shaftesbury Farm
Monday, 23 January 2012
Tributary to Cobbins Brook - Wintry Park
Tributary to Cobbins Brook
The tributary flows north west to
Cobbins BrookPost to the west Epping
Frampton Road
Lindsey Street Community Centre, The Association and hall was founded and built by local residents in the early 1950`s for local families. Its original small wooden building has been greatly extended with the addition of a large hall
High Road
The turnpike road started from the junction with Thornwood Road
Brickfield House and Business Centre. Site of previous brickfield.
Lindsey Street
30 site of Epping Brewery.the stables, hay loft and dray house remain in the garden of the house which was built over the old engine house, copper and steam plant as an off-licence in 1950. The bottling store remains in light industrial use
Thornwood Road
This was previously called The Plain.
Epping Plain. Together with Wintry Wood this makes up the Great Forest – a detached part of Epping Forest
Wintry Park Farm. Late 18th farmhouse. Wintry means 'winter enclosure' and is noted in 1200
Wintry Park House. The name is first noted in 1403 and this was a farm in the 18th
Almshouses. Built as part of a bequest from Stonards. Built in 1877; as three double-fronted cottages, in red brick
Wintry Wood. The wood is part of the Great Forest and the name of Wintry Wood has been transferred here from the opposite side of the turnpike road
Wintry Wood Cottage & Kennels
Hole in the Wall Garage –site being redeveloped
Cobbins Brook - Marles Farm
Cobbins Brook
Cobbins Brook flows east towards
the LeeA tributary of Cobbins Brook flows south
Post to the west Shingle Hall
Post to the south Epping Upland
Marles Farm
The manor of Marles was probably part of the Domesday manor of Epping taking its name from a family called Madle or Mascle. Manor courts were still being held in the early 19th. The farmhouse is a 17th timber-framed building and there are the remains of a moat.
Marles Farm Cottage
Cobbins Brook - Shingle Hall
Cobbins
Brook
Cobbins Brook flows eastwards to the River LeePost to the east Marles Farm
Post to the south Epping Upland
Site of Shingle Hall. The Hall was part of the
Waltham Abbey estate. The manor extended into Great Parndon and the name came
from the roof of shingles on the medieval house. It is first mentioned in
1253. In 1303 it had a windmill. It
subsequently became part of the Copped Hall estate until the 16th.
At the dissolution of Waltham Abbey it passed to the Crown and was granted to
Lord Morley. Manor courts were still held here in the 19th century. The manor
house was demolished in 1899 and cottages built on site although the moat
remains.
Cobbins Brook - Epping Upland
Cobbins Brook
Cobbins Brook rises from a number
of sources in this area and flows north east towards the River Lee.
Post to the east Epping Upland
Post to the south Orange Wood
Epping Road
All Saints Vicarage
Sports Field
Road
Hunters Hall Cottages
Chambers Manor Farm – now housing as Chambers Manor Mews
Chambers Manor. The manor of Chambers was probably connected to Waltham Abbey. The name comes from the family which held it in the 14th and 15th but merged into the Copped Hall estate in the 18th. The manor house is probably 17th and is timber-framed building, re-faced in brick. Part of a moat survives.
Track
Hunters Hall Farm. Probably 16th in origin
Cornmill Stream - Waltham Abbey
Cornmill
Stream
The Cornmill Stream flows south and west to join the River Lee
Cobbins brook flows south and west through the area towards the River Lee
Post to the north Waltham Abbey
Post to the west Waltham Abbey
Post to the east Waltham Abbey
Post to the south Waltham Abbey
Abbey
The Abbey dates from the time of Tovi, a Danish chief, and associate of King Canute. Tovi is said to have found a cross in Somerset which he brought here and founded a church to house it.
There was a Saxon church here in 610 which Edward the Confessor gave to Harold, afterwards King. Harold founded a college of secular canons here. It is though he was buried here after the Battle Hastings. Henry II converted it to an Augustinian priory after the murder of Becket. This became an Abbey in 1184 - it became a powerful and wealthy institution dominating the area around it and beyond. The building was destroyed at the dissolution but the parochial area of the church nave remains as the parish church. The estate was given to the Denny family, Earls of Norwich.
Abbey Church. The church was retained for the town after the dissolution and the nave and aisles are from the 12th. Local people built the tower in 1556 after it has ceased to be the Abbey church – and probably using stone from the Abbey. It now has twelve bells, and a clock. Inside the walls are plain with a painted ceiling copied from Peterborough in the 19th. The windows are by Burne-Jones. There are wall painting and a stone figure Madonna of 1400, found in a local garden. The nave columns have chevron decoration. The church was restored in 1960-4.
Abbey Gardens
Viking Hall. Immediately north of the church have been found remains of what has been called The ‘Viking Hall’. It is thought to have been a hunting lodge and is associated with Tovi and the Holy Cross. Excavation has shown a late-Viking turf-walled hall of aisled construction, plus pits, gullies and a linear ditch
King Harold’s grave. To the east of the church, two stones mark the site of the high altar where King Harold is said to have been buried, along with his brothers, after the Battle of Hastings in 1066. There is however considerable doubt on this.
The Abbey site is behind the church, and there are few remains. The crossings and transepts of the church are marked in the grass while the domestic buildings were to the north and north-east. An infirmary was built within the abbey precinct circa 1218 and this with a guesthouse and brew house have been identified by excavations. A Medieval aisled building was also discovered during excavations.
Abbey Gateway. This has two arches - one for vehicles, one for pedestrians and a turret is also left from what was once a bigger building. Inside the wall is made up of hand-made medieval red bricks, and is thus one of the earliest brick walls in Britain.
Precinct Wall. This wall would have surrounded the Abbey. They had been licenced to crenellate it in 1369. The wall was mostly destroyed but a length of 16th wall survives to east of the church.
Stoney Bridge. This single arch bridge crosses the Cornmill Stream. It was built in 1370 for goods transport into the Abbey precinct. A causeway links it to another bridge to the north. There are vaulted ribs under the bridge. It is often, wrongly, called "Harold's Bridge".
Cloister Entry. This is a late 12th stone-built passageway with a vaulted roof which led from the outer court into the cloisters. The stairs probably led to the dorter. At one time this was known as the Midnight Chapel and in the 1930's it was used by local farmers as a potato store
Cloisters. These were four walks once roofed and paved.
Orchard wall . The stone wall on the south side of the orchard was built by the Dennys.
Chapter House. Excavation has revealed a rectangular building with a floor of decorated tiles. Several abbots were buried here. It would have been accessed from the cloisters and was used for meetings and business transactions. The north wall was used as the south wall of Abbey House.
Abbey House. This was an Elizabethan mansion and garden built by Edward Denny, who had been given the Abbey estate, about 1590. It was demolished in the 1770s. The moat remains. Survives along with some buttresses which were mainly ornamental. Brick features indicate the positioning fireplaces and windows. This house incorporated the north wall of the Chapter House as its south wall.
Brick Pillars. These date from around 1700 and were part of the southern gateway to Abbey House. They are fine-jointed, with no mortar between the bricks.
Sewers. There is an opening to the Abbey sewers which form an underground network
Moat. This is a large rectangular are which was probably dug in the 17th as a garden feature for Abbey House., The meridian line passes through it.
Bloomery floor. This forge would have provided metalwork for the Abbey and the Grange between the 11th and 15th... It was a three-bay aisled building with flint walls with its own well. The large square areas were for smiths' hearths, and the smaller ones roof supports. The meridian line passes over it.
Meridian Line – this passes between the moat and the cloisters and then goes straight through the Rose Garden where a steel arch forms the Meridian Gateway - with moon, stars and giant red sextant.
Abbey Church Centre – information and community hub in what was the Lee Valley Park Information Centre which has now closed.
Wormley – a conduit system brought water to the Abbey from springs in the Wormley area.
Abbey View
By pass road built in the 1970s.
Grange. The Abbey farmed on an extensive scale. The Great Barn, which was one of the largest in the country, stood with the farm buildings under the site of Abbey View and the roundabout.
Part of the Abbey wall and its buttresses lie along the road
Church Street
Known c.1600 as Water Street
1 Lychgate House. This is a 16th building facing the churchyard with some pargeting – the only example in the town - and weather boarded ground floor. If this is taken together with the Welsh Harp it makes up four buildings with a separate gateway. The house has at its core a building of around 1400, which may have been a priest's house. At the west end is an original 17th chimneystack.
Welsh Harp. Part of the same building group as Lychgate House. Part dates from the 16th but much of it later rebuilt later.
2 19th shop front with steps to the door on a 15th building. Colour washed with a roughcast front, and the first floor protruding with a carved fascia over the window. It has a carriage entry. There are some older structures at the back.
3 Built around 1500 and of a high quality.
4 19th shop front on a 15th building.
Cornmill Stream
This may have been built before 1086 to serve the mills mentioned in the Domesday Book.
Long Pool. This was built around 1581, when part of the Lower Mill Stream was filled in and the Cornmill Stream only supplied the water to run the double mill at the Abbey gates. In 1581 the navigation route was set up using the Cornmill stream and then through a flash lock into the Long Pool and back into the River Lea. In 1590, when the passage of the Lea itself was recut
Dock – excavation at the south end revealed the remains of a large timber and planked dock.
Pound Lock. This was built in 1577 on a cut between the Corn Mill Stream and the Old Barge River it was built and lined with timber and had mitre gates at each end, making it probably the first mitre-gated pound lock in the country. It was completely destroyed in 1592
Mill site north of Highbridge. Twin mill-races are all that remain of the water mills which ground corn until the early 20th. The Abbot's mill is mentioned in 1482, and there were two mills under one roof in 1528. The mill was demolished in 1906.
Crooked Mile
Brick Wall. This is long and much rebuilt but it is partly part of the Abbey precinct wall form the 15th. A cross with a stepped base symbolising the Holy Cross of Waltham.
46 Community Centre – smashing little art deco building which doesn’t seem to be listed.
Farm Hill Road
Cobbinsbank - retirement homes on the site of Waltham Abbey War Memorial Hospital.
Waltham Abbey War Memorial Hospital was opened in 1921 by Prince Henry, Paid for by public donations and built as the town's war memorial to those killed during the Great War. It had 8 beds dealing with surgical cases –but like other cottage hospitals, it did not admit people with alcoholism, mania, epilepsy, or contagious diseases. In 1932 it was extended to 16 beds and new staff quarters plus an Out-Patients Department with an X-ray Department had been built. In three Second World War it was part of the Emergency Medical Service. A new building was opened in 1948 and The Hospital joined the NHS in July 1948 dropping the word 'Cottage' from its title. By 1950 it was a GP hospital with 24 beds, it closed in 1980 with 21 beds and, was demolished in 1984 and sold to developers
War Memorial plaques from the Hospital stand in a small park on the corner of Honey Lane. These were previously in the waiting hall of the Out-Patients Department where an annual service was held. The foundation stone, is also included here
Industrial estate
Larson Social Club. Hans Ove Larsen was a Danish born nursery owner. He owned land here and gave the hospital site to the town
Larsen’s Recreation Ground. Sports facilitates here date from the 1920s and were provided for workers in the Larsen nurseries.
Green Man Pub. The pub dates from the mid-18th but was rebuilt in the 1880s.
Highbridge
12 A timber structure probably of late 17th century date contains two good moulded beams (re-used); its east wall (originally the west wall of the building next door) retains a substantial piece of earlier timber-framing.
2–4 This was the Cock Inn which was first recorded in 1533. It later became a coach stop, and was rebuilt in 1894. Tiles include the date and the figure of a cock
12 17th timber building.
14-16 small 19th shop fronts on a stucco building with weather boarding at the back.
Waltham Abbey Town Hall. Art Deco for the Urban District Council of 1904. Built by John Bentley Builders. There are two arched doorways by the front door which were for the local volunteer fire brigade’s horse drawn engine. In 1923 this was replaced by a motor engine
Vicarage. This is a 17th L-shaped timber- framed house, built in the local tradition. Joseph Hall, afterwards Bishop of Exeter and Norwich, lived here 1612-34. And Thomas Fuller, cleric and historian, lived here 1649-57. It may be the house given as a house for the curate by the Earl of Norwich in 1637.
Leverton Way
Constructed to relieve Church Street of traffic 1960
Lower Mill stream
Thought to have been built to run the mill mentioned in Domesday
Market Square
The medieval market-place developed within a rectangular enclosure – Eldeworth. This enclosure may pre-date the market-place and it may have been a boundary to a late Saxon settlement. There is a record of consent for a market in 1189, and this has taken place on Tuesdays ever since 1560. The line of the Market Square moved southwards, a new terrace of shops built c.1960 when Leverton Street was built as a bypass.
The Cage - the Abbot’s prison- was here.
13 The Queen's Arms Public House. This is a 17th timber framed building with its Ground floor below present street level. At one time this was the Bull's Head
20 16th timber-framed building. There is one single door and another double carriage door. It has a "dragon beam,” which is now not visible and which helped construction on a non-rectangular site.
21 Green Dragon. 18th front on an older, timber-framed building, which is probably 16th with old cellars below. There is a moulded beam reused as a fireplace lintel in the lounge bar. On the front wall is a plaque commemorating the Market House
Market House - this was built about 1670, and demolished in 1852. The Moot Hall, built after 1250, stood on the same site and its outline is marked out on the ground.
22- 23 19th intrusion
25 modern shop front on a 16th timber framed building
Meridian Line
Monkswood
Road
The Roman Catholic Church of Saint Thomas More and Saint Edward.
19TH Stone and red brick church. This was built as a Methodist
church
Paradise Road
Baptist Chapel. There were non-conformists in Waltham Abbey for many years meeting at Theobald’s. In the late 1720s 24 agricultural workers and tradesmen raised the money to build a Meeting House which was on the site of the front garden of the present Chapel. By 1836 the Chapel was dilapidated Churches all over the country made contributions for a new building which opened in 1836.
Quaker Lane
Friends Meeting House. In 1654 George Fox visited Waltham and Shortly after Fox’s a Quaker meeting was established in a lane leading off the Sewardstone Road. The meeting was closed in 1817 and the meeting house was used by the British School. It was demolished in 1844
Quendon Drive
Waltham Holy Cross Primary School
Romeland
Excavation here showed that the area had been a swamp until the 12th when the ground was raised. The area lost many old buildings in the Second World War
4 Crown Pub. The building is 17th or earlier. In the centre is an artesian well, 50 metres deep, sunk in 1878. It once had a lamp above it.
Reformation House – destroyed in the Second World War. It is thought that this may have been built on the site of a medieval stone mason’s yard. There was a house on the site thought to have had a connection with Cranmer.
Roundhills
Waltham Abbey Swimming Pool
Saxon Way
Tudor Cross pre school
Silver Street
Formerly the exit from the Market Square which changed after Leverton Way was built.
Fountain Place. Post-Second World War housing redevelopment with arched entrances to reflect the character of old Waltham.
Spotted Cow. Small 19th public house, with fine ceramic panel of the said spotted cow.
South Place
2-3 16th house in colourwashed brick with stucco on the first floor. It has exposed timbers and was probably originally a farm house for open land at the back.
Stewardstone Road
Thrift Hall, 19th house pebble dashed
Thrift Cottage. 17th house pebble dashed
15-16 two 18th houses in brown brick, three storeys with dummy windows.
Waltham Abbey Football Club. The ground is called Capershotts and they have played there since the 1940´s amalgamating with other local clubs. Floodlights and a 200-seater stand built with seats, purchased from Manchester City´s Stadium, were installed early 21sr.
Cemetery – Run by the local authority, with red brick 19th chapel and lodge
Capershotts allotments
LidL, on the site of a defunct car salesroom
Fire Station, post war
Tesco. Site of Pan Brittanica chemical works who made baby bio among other things.
Sultan Pub
Stewardstone Street
Formerly called Elford Street is one of the old streets of the town and is likely to be on the line of a Roman road
20 Essex House, Chequer brickwork house dated to 1722 on the rainwater heads plus initials ‘IWS’. Now flats. In the 19th it was the home of poet Samuel Howell,
Salvation Army citadel
Essex Army Cadet Force hut
Sun Street
1 16th building with plaster on a timber framework, there is a bracket with a possibly female figure (or maybe hermaphrite) carrying a jug. This was part of the Greyhound inn.
1-5 four distinct buildings; part of it was the Greyhound Inn, mentioned in 1648. The two buildings at the far end have jetties
3, 3a, 3b.Builldings which have been separated and joined at various times. The older is part is 16th with a timber frame and plastered. The other is 17th with an 18th front
11 White Lion. The name is a reference to the badge of Edward IV
14 18th building with 19th shop front in whitewashed brick
16 19th shop front on an older building in whitewashed brick
18 & 18a modern shop front on an older building, pebble dashed,
19 building with an original 19th shop front in painted weather boarded front with a contemporary door and window-frames. Carriage entry has been closed.
17-20 Meridian line in the pavement between them.
21 Sun Inn. Timber-framed building which is first mentioned in 1633. It gave the name to the street, which was previously East Street.
24 modern shop front on an 18th building in red brick but with a timber frame. There is a wagon way alongside.
24a- 26 19th brick shop front on an older building with a Central carriageway.
28 19th front on an earlier building
33 19th front on an earlier building.
34-36 This has a 19th shop front on an older yellow brick building. It was a doctor's house in the 19th
35 Police Station. Built in 1874, it breaks the street line.
38 19th shop front on older building
39-41 Epping Forest District Museum. Although the street front is an imitation, this is timber-framed. 41 is early 16th century date with an 18th garden front.
40 -42 19th front in yellow brick. This was once the Ship Inn.
44 timber-framed house early 17th which originally extended as far as the Angel, and had a carriageway to the yard at the rear.
55 New Inn rebuilt 1896, a large and elaborate building
Townmead Road
Town Mead Recreation Centre. Opened 2010
The Cornmill Stream flows south and west to join the River Lee
Cobbins brook flows south and west through the area towards the River Lee
Post to the north Waltham Abbey
Post to the west Waltham Abbey
Post to the east Waltham Abbey
Post to the south Waltham Abbey
Abbey
The Abbey dates from the time of Tovi, a Danish chief, and associate of King Canute. Tovi is said to have found a cross in Somerset which he brought here and founded a church to house it.
There was a Saxon church here in 610 which Edward the Confessor gave to Harold, afterwards King. Harold founded a college of secular canons here. It is though he was buried here after the Battle Hastings. Henry II converted it to an Augustinian priory after the murder of Becket. This became an Abbey in 1184 - it became a powerful and wealthy institution dominating the area around it and beyond. The building was destroyed at the dissolution but the parochial area of the church nave remains as the parish church. The estate was given to the Denny family, Earls of Norwich.
Abbey Church. The church was retained for the town after the dissolution and the nave and aisles are from the 12th. Local people built the tower in 1556 after it has ceased to be the Abbey church – and probably using stone from the Abbey. It now has twelve bells, and a clock. Inside the walls are plain with a painted ceiling copied from Peterborough in the 19th. The windows are by Burne-Jones. There are wall painting and a stone figure Madonna of 1400, found in a local garden. The nave columns have chevron decoration. The church was restored in 1960-4.
Abbey Gardens
Viking Hall. Immediately north of the church have been found remains of what has been called The ‘Viking Hall’. It is thought to have been a hunting lodge and is associated with Tovi and the Holy Cross. Excavation has shown a late-Viking turf-walled hall of aisled construction, plus pits, gullies and a linear ditch
King Harold’s grave. To the east of the church, two stones mark the site of the high altar where King Harold is said to have been buried, along with his brothers, after the Battle of Hastings in 1066. There is however considerable doubt on this.
The Abbey site is behind the church, and there are few remains. The crossings and transepts of the church are marked in the grass while the domestic buildings were to the north and north-east. An infirmary was built within the abbey precinct circa 1218 and this with a guesthouse and brew house have been identified by excavations. A Medieval aisled building was also discovered during excavations.
Abbey Gateway. This has two arches - one for vehicles, one for pedestrians and a turret is also left from what was once a bigger building. Inside the wall is made up of hand-made medieval red bricks, and is thus one of the earliest brick walls in Britain.
Precinct Wall. This wall would have surrounded the Abbey. They had been licenced to crenellate it in 1369. The wall was mostly destroyed but a length of 16th wall survives to east of the church.
Stoney Bridge. This single arch bridge crosses the Cornmill Stream. It was built in 1370 for goods transport into the Abbey precinct. A causeway links it to another bridge to the north. There are vaulted ribs under the bridge. It is often, wrongly, called "Harold's Bridge".
Cloister Entry. This is a late 12th stone-built passageway with a vaulted roof which led from the outer court into the cloisters. The stairs probably led to the dorter. At one time this was known as the Midnight Chapel and in the 1930's it was used by local farmers as a potato store
Cloisters. These were four walks once roofed and paved.
Orchard wall . The stone wall on the south side of the orchard was built by the Dennys.
Chapter House. Excavation has revealed a rectangular building with a floor of decorated tiles. Several abbots were buried here. It would have been accessed from the cloisters and was used for meetings and business transactions. The north wall was used as the south wall of Abbey House.
Abbey House. This was an Elizabethan mansion and garden built by Edward Denny, who had been given the Abbey estate, about 1590. It was demolished in the 1770s. The moat remains. Survives along with some buttresses which were mainly ornamental. Brick features indicate the positioning fireplaces and windows. This house incorporated the north wall of the Chapter House as its south wall.
Brick Pillars. These date from around 1700 and were part of the southern gateway to Abbey House. They are fine-jointed, with no mortar between the bricks.
Sewers. There is an opening to the Abbey sewers which form an underground network
Moat. This is a large rectangular are which was probably dug in the 17th as a garden feature for Abbey House., The meridian line passes through it.
Bloomery floor. This forge would have provided metalwork for the Abbey and the Grange between the 11th and 15th... It was a three-bay aisled building with flint walls with its own well. The large square areas were for smiths' hearths, and the smaller ones roof supports. The meridian line passes over it.
Meridian Line – this passes between the moat and the cloisters and then goes straight through the Rose Garden where a steel arch forms the Meridian Gateway - with moon, stars and giant red sextant.
Abbey Church Centre – information and community hub in what was the Lee Valley Park Information Centre which has now closed.
Wormley – a conduit system brought water to the Abbey from springs in the Wormley area.
Abbey View
By pass road built in the 1970s.
Grange. The Abbey farmed on an extensive scale. The Great Barn, which was one of the largest in the country, stood with the farm buildings under the site of Abbey View and the roundabout.
Part of the Abbey wall and its buttresses lie along the road
Church Street
Known c.1600 as Water Street
1 Lychgate House. This is a 16th building facing the churchyard with some pargeting – the only example in the town - and weather boarded ground floor. If this is taken together with the Welsh Harp it makes up four buildings with a separate gateway. The house has at its core a building of around 1400, which may have been a priest's house. At the west end is an original 17th chimneystack.
Welsh Harp. Part of the same building group as Lychgate House. Part dates from the 16th but much of it later rebuilt later.
2 19th shop front with steps to the door on a 15th building. Colour washed with a roughcast front, and the first floor protruding with a carved fascia over the window. It has a carriage entry. There are some older structures at the back.
3 Built around 1500 and of a high quality.
4 19th shop front on a 15th building.
Cornmill Stream
This may have been built before 1086 to serve the mills mentioned in the Domesday Book.
Long Pool. This was built around 1581, when part of the Lower Mill Stream was filled in and the Cornmill Stream only supplied the water to run the double mill at the Abbey gates. In 1581 the navigation route was set up using the Cornmill stream and then through a flash lock into the Long Pool and back into the River Lea. In 1590, when the passage of the Lea itself was recut
Dock – excavation at the south end revealed the remains of a large timber and planked dock.
Pound Lock. This was built in 1577 on a cut between the Corn Mill Stream and the Old Barge River it was built and lined with timber and had mitre gates at each end, making it probably the first mitre-gated pound lock in the country. It was completely destroyed in 1592
Mill site north of Highbridge. Twin mill-races are all that remain of the water mills which ground corn until the early 20th. The Abbot's mill is mentioned in 1482, and there were two mills under one roof in 1528. The mill was demolished in 1906.
Crooked Mile
Brick Wall. This is long and much rebuilt but it is partly part of the Abbey precinct wall form the 15th. A cross with a stepped base symbolising the Holy Cross of Waltham.
46 Community Centre – smashing little art deco building which doesn’t seem to be listed.
Farm Hill Road
Cobbinsbank - retirement homes on the site of Waltham Abbey War Memorial Hospital.
Waltham Abbey War Memorial Hospital was opened in 1921 by Prince Henry, Paid for by public donations and built as the town's war memorial to those killed during the Great War. It had 8 beds dealing with surgical cases –but like other cottage hospitals, it did not admit people with alcoholism, mania, epilepsy, or contagious diseases. In 1932 it was extended to 16 beds and new staff quarters plus an Out-Patients Department with an X-ray Department had been built. In three Second World War it was part of the Emergency Medical Service. A new building was opened in 1948 and The Hospital joined the NHS in July 1948 dropping the word 'Cottage' from its title. By 1950 it was a GP hospital with 24 beds, it closed in 1980 with 21 beds and, was demolished in 1984 and sold to developers
War Memorial plaques from the Hospital stand in a small park on the corner of Honey Lane. These were previously in the waiting hall of the Out-Patients Department where an annual service was held. The foundation stone, is also included here
Industrial estate
Larson Social Club. Hans Ove Larsen was a Danish born nursery owner. He owned land here and gave the hospital site to the town
Larsen’s Recreation Ground. Sports facilitates here date from the 1920s and were provided for workers in the Larsen nurseries.
Green Man Pub. The pub dates from the mid-18th but was rebuilt in the 1880s.
Highbridge
12 A timber structure probably of late 17th century date contains two good moulded beams (re-used); its east wall (originally the west wall of the building next door) retains a substantial piece of earlier timber-framing.
2–4 This was the Cock Inn which was first recorded in 1533. It later became a coach stop, and was rebuilt in 1894. Tiles include the date and the figure of a cock
12 17th timber building.
14-16 small 19th shop fronts on a stucco building with weather boarding at the back.
Waltham Abbey Town Hall. Art Deco for the Urban District Council of 1904. Built by John Bentley Builders. There are two arched doorways by the front door which were for the local volunteer fire brigade’s horse drawn engine. In 1923 this was replaced by a motor engine
Vicarage. This is a 17th L-shaped timber- framed house, built in the local tradition. Joseph Hall, afterwards Bishop of Exeter and Norwich, lived here 1612-34. And Thomas Fuller, cleric and historian, lived here 1649-57. It may be the house given as a house for the curate by the Earl of Norwich in 1637.
Leverton Way
Constructed to relieve Church Street of traffic 1960
Lower Mill stream
Thought to have been built to run the mill mentioned in Domesday
Market Square
The medieval market-place developed within a rectangular enclosure – Eldeworth. This enclosure may pre-date the market-place and it may have been a boundary to a late Saxon settlement. There is a record of consent for a market in 1189, and this has taken place on Tuesdays ever since 1560. The line of the Market Square moved southwards, a new terrace of shops built c.1960 when Leverton Street was built as a bypass.
The Cage - the Abbot’s prison- was here.
13 The Queen's Arms Public House. This is a 17th timber framed building with its Ground floor below present street level. At one time this was the Bull's Head
20 16th timber-framed building. There is one single door and another double carriage door. It has a "dragon beam,” which is now not visible and which helped construction on a non-rectangular site.
21 Green Dragon. 18th front on an older, timber-framed building, which is probably 16th with old cellars below. There is a moulded beam reused as a fireplace lintel in the lounge bar. On the front wall is a plaque commemorating the Market House
Market House - this was built about 1670, and demolished in 1852. The Moot Hall, built after 1250, stood on the same site and its outline is marked out on the ground.
22- 23 19th intrusion
25 modern shop front on a 16th timber framed building
Meridian Line
Monkswood
Road
The Roman Catholic Church of Saint Thomas More and Saint Edward.
19TH Stone and red brick church. This was built as a Methodist
churchParadise Road
Baptist Chapel. There were non-conformists in Waltham Abbey for many years meeting at Theobald’s. In the late 1720s 24 agricultural workers and tradesmen raised the money to build a Meeting House which was on the site of the front garden of the present Chapel. By 1836 the Chapel was dilapidated Churches all over the country made contributions for a new building which opened in 1836.
Quaker Lane
Friends Meeting House. In 1654 George Fox visited Waltham and Shortly after Fox’s a Quaker meeting was established in a lane leading off the Sewardstone Road. The meeting was closed in 1817 and the meeting house was used by the British School. It was demolished in 1844
Quendon Drive
Waltham Holy Cross Primary School
Romeland
Excavation here showed that the area had been a swamp until the 12th when the ground was raised. The area lost many old buildings in the Second World War
4 Crown Pub. The building is 17th or earlier. In the centre is an artesian well, 50 metres deep, sunk in 1878. It once had a lamp above it.
Reformation House – destroyed in the Second World War. It is thought that this may have been built on the site of a medieval stone mason’s yard. There was a house on the site thought to have had a connection with Cranmer.
Roundhills
Waltham Abbey Swimming Pool
Saxon Way
Tudor Cross pre school
Silver Street
Formerly the exit from the Market Square which changed after Leverton Way was built.
Fountain Place. Post-Second World War housing redevelopment with arched entrances to reflect the character of old Waltham.
Spotted Cow. Small 19th public house, with fine ceramic panel of the said spotted cow.
South Place
2-3 16th house in colourwashed brick with stucco on the first floor. It has exposed timbers and was probably originally a farm house for open land at the back.
Stewardstone Road
Thrift Hall, 19th house pebble dashed
Thrift Cottage. 17th house pebble dashed
15-16 two 18th houses in brown brick, three storeys with dummy windows.
Waltham Abbey Football Club. The ground is called Capershotts and they have played there since the 1940´s amalgamating with other local clubs. Floodlights and a 200-seater stand built with seats, purchased from Manchester City´s Stadium, were installed early 21sr.
Cemetery – Run by the local authority, with red brick 19th chapel and lodge
Capershotts allotments
LidL, on the site of a defunct car salesroom
Fire Station, post war
Tesco. Site of Pan Brittanica chemical works who made baby bio among other things.
Sultan Pub
Stewardstone Street
Formerly called Elford Street is one of the old streets of the town and is likely to be on the line of a Roman road
20 Essex House, Chequer brickwork house dated to 1722 on the rainwater heads plus initials ‘IWS’. Now flats. In the 19th it was the home of poet Samuel Howell,
Salvation Army citadel
Essex Army Cadet Force hut
Sun Street
1 16th building with plaster on a timber framework, there is a bracket with a possibly female figure (or maybe hermaphrite) carrying a jug. This was part of the Greyhound inn.
1-5 four distinct buildings; part of it was the Greyhound Inn, mentioned in 1648. The two buildings at the far end have jetties
3, 3a, 3b.Builldings which have been separated and joined at various times. The older is part is 16th with a timber frame and plastered. The other is 17th with an 18th front
11 White Lion. The name is a reference to the badge of Edward IV
14 18th building with 19th shop front in whitewashed brick
16 19th shop front on an older building in whitewashed brick
18 & 18a modern shop front on an older building, pebble dashed,
19 building with an original 19th shop front in painted weather boarded front with a contemporary door and window-frames. Carriage entry has been closed.
17-20 Meridian line in the pavement between them.
21 Sun Inn. Timber-framed building which is first mentioned in 1633. It gave the name to the street, which was previously East Street.
24 modern shop front on an 18th building in red brick but with a timber frame. There is a wagon way alongside.
24a- 26 19th brick shop front on an older building with a Central carriageway.
28 19th front on an earlier building
33 19th front on an earlier building.
34-36 This has a 19th shop front on an older yellow brick building. It was a doctor's house in the 19th
35 Police Station. Built in 1874, it breaks the street line.
38 19th shop front on older building
39-41 Epping Forest District Museum. Although the street front is an imitation, this is timber-framed. 41 is early 16th century date with an 18th garden front.
40 -42 19th front in yellow brick. This was once the Ship Inn.
44 timber-framed house early 17th which originally extended as far as the Angel, and had a carriageway to the yard at the rear.
55 New Inn rebuilt 1896, a large and elaborate building
Townmead Road
Town Mead Recreation Centre. Opened 2010
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