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Thames Tributary River Roding The Roding continues to flow south and is met by a tributary to north and one from the west Another tributary flows south Post to the north Charlie Brown's Post to the south Redbridge Station Ashbourne Avenue Nightingale Primary School . Mosaic mural of birds on the wall Chigwell Road Old Mill Court – the Old Mill was a pub dating to at least the mid-19th. United Dairies building. Dairy Crest but now empty and derelict Elmcroft Avenue Wanstead Youth Centre North Circular Roding Lane South Redbridge 275KV substation National Grid Roding Spire Hospital BUPA Hatton Special School PDSA Pets Cemetery - including graves of animals awarded medals in wartime, etc. Roding pumping station , 1904. Rectangular engine house with Lower boiler house in stock brick Woodford Bridge Road PDSA PetAid Hospital

Thames Tributary River Roding The Roding continues to flow south TQ 41114 90415 Major road junction which intersects with the Roding and its linear park. Post to the north Woodford Bridge Post to the south Wanstead Post to the west Woodford, North Circular Chigwell Road Winn Bridge . This is where a stream – the Wynn Brook – joins the Roding. The bridge was passed to the Middlesex and Essex turnpike trust, and then the county in 1872 Parish water pump by the bridge, restored and repainted Parish water pump eastern side of the road, restored and Eastern sewage works. Built by the local board in 1882 and modernised to serves the greater part of Woodford in the 1950s. This area is now part of the park. Chigwell Road Depot . This is now the Redbridge Reuse and Recycling Centre or Chigwell Reuse and Recycling Centre. It is managed by Shanks East London. Roding Valley Park . Linear park along the river originally associated with the construction of the motorway Allotme...

Thames Tributary – River Roding The Roding flows generally south Post to the north Roding Valley Post to the east Woodford Bridge Post to the south Charlie Browns Post to the west Woodford Green Chigwell Road Broadmead Baptist Church . A Baptist mission was set up here in a sports pavilion in 1948 and a wooden church built in 1957. The current church has a polygonal roof and glazed lantern designed by Denis Hull, Sunday School Superintendent. The frontage has pink-painted, cast-concrete abstract reliefs done by Denis Hull in the 1960s and shows Biblical history from the Creation to the Second Coming. The curved concrete wall guides visitors towards the entrance. The church was opened in 1969 but badly flooded in 2000 and since restored. Church hall at the back. Very plain Finchingfield Road Playing field Ray Lodge Road Ray Lodge was built in 1793 for George Wright son of the owner of. Ray House. The lodge has disappeared but the name of Ray Lodge is preserved here. Unit...

Thames Tributary River Roding The Roding continues to flow south west and south and is joined by a tributary from the west TQ 42535 93002 Area of sports fields  and amenities alongside the Roding and the M11 Post to the north Buckhurst Hill Post to the west Buckhurst Hill Post to the east Chigwell Post to the south Woodford Bridge Lower Queens Road Buckhurst Hill Community Primary School Luxborough Lane Site of Luxborough House . This mansion was at the end of the lane and was built for Robert Knight, Baron Luxborough and cashier for the South Sea Company. He fled abroad after the scandal but eventually got a peerage anyway. House demolished 1800 Luxborough Lane Lake . This was a gravel pit now flooded and used for carp fishing. Old Loughtonians Hockey Club. The club is associated with Loughton School and the Old Loughtonians Trust. The original Loughton Hockey Club became the Old Loughtonians in 1920. They originally played at High Beech in the Speedway’s dirt-t...

Thames Tributary – tributaries to the River Roding The tributary flows south west and is joined by a tributary from the south TQ 43620 92978 Area along Chigwell High Road with the station and shops surrounded by Essex style posh suburbia Post to the west Chigwell Post to the north Roding Lane Post to the east Chigwell Post to the south Chigwell Chigwell High Road Chigwell Hall . Built by Norman Shaw in 1876. It was commissioned by Alfred Savill and built by Norman Shaw. Alfred Savill who founded Savill’s Estate Agency. In 1905, it was bought by Walter Waugh and in 1938, by the Metropolitan Police. It is now used for events and weddings. Metropolitan Police Sports Ground Chigwell Station . Half a mile from the village centre with handsome staircases, ticket office and waiting rooms. It was opened in 1903 by the Great Eastern Railway on the Fairlop Loop. This became part of London Underground Central Line as part of the New Works Programme and electric Underground trains...

Thames Tributary – tributaries to the River Roding A tributary rises in this area and flows west and north. It is joined by another tributary from the east. TQ 43052 92060 Suburban area to the south of Chigwell. Some institutions, golf and open space Post to the west Woodford Bridge Post to the north Chigwell Post to the east Grange Hill Post to the south Claybury Chigwell High Road Broomhill House and Broomhill Cottage. cottage, 18th House, divided into 2 cottages. Timber framed Little West Hatch . Early 19th house in Stuccoed brick, Used by LCC from the 1930s in conjunction with Great West Hatch as accommodation for their patients. Closed 1966. Now a private house. Chigwell Golf course . The course was built in 1924 and opened in 1925 by the Lord Lieutenant of Essex. The Club House is a 19th in brick with front covered in stucco which is marked look like stone blocks at the back is a part weather boarded, extension Chigwell Lodge . 18th House in brick with a bell-tur...

Thames Tributary – tributaries to River Roding A tributary flows west and meets a tributary from the south which is made up of two other tributaries one of which rises in this area . TQ 44151 93881 The older part of Chigwell to the north of the modern shops. Many interesting buildings Post to the west Chigwell Post to the north Chigwell Post to the east Chigwell Row Post to the south Grange Hill High Road Christies . Two 18th houses Timber framed and plastered. At the back are two lead pumps in wooden cases from 18th with the tank fronts ornamented and embossed with initials and a date - M T 1762 Vine Cottage/ Christies Cottage . These are now renamed Dickens and Proctor’s Cottages. Two 18th houses Timber framed and weather boarded. One of them has the original wooden lead lined gutter. Grange Court . 18th house in brick. Used as a school boarding house and recently as a ‘prep’ school’. Hainault House , 19th Victorian Gothick house in yellow brick. This is said to have be...

Thames Tributaries – tributaries to the river Roding Tributaries rise in this area and flow to the Roding – one flowing west and north and one flowing north west Post to the west Chigwell Post to the north Chigwell Post to the east Hainault Post to the south Hainault Froghall Lane Chigwell Cemetery . Local authority cemetery hidden up the lane. Grange Hill Part of the Forest bought in 1903 by London County Council, Essex County Council and local councils. Grange Hill Estate; was built by the London County Council and lay in Essex until 1965 when it was transferred into London in Redbridge. Hainault Road Bald Hind Inn . This was an Edwardian building recently Demolished. This was here in 1770 and then called the 'Bald Faced Hind'. It is said that was opposite here that Daniel Day of Wapping held his work peoples’ beano with pork and beans every other year, alternately with the Maypole Inn. A boat - called the Mallot - was said to be brought from Wapping towed thro...

Thames Tributary – tributary to the River Roding The tributary rises from two places in this area and flows westwards TQ 45844 93105 Rural area and old village on the edge of the metropolitan area Post to the west Chigwell Post to the south Hainault Post to the east Chigwell Row There were several medicinal springs in Chigwell Row Chapel Lane 1-2 19th cottages Timber framed and weather boarded Clare Hall . 18th house in stock brick. Henry Fletcher bought it in 1801, and changed its name to Chapel House. Chase Lane Chase Farm Cottage . 19th house Timber framed and weather boarded Pump , 19th in a wooden case with a lead spout and a cast iron handle. Grove Lane Millers Farm House . 17th Timber framed and weather boarded. Grove Cottages Fish ponds Lambourne Road United Free Church , former congregational chapel of 1804. Originally part of the Essex Congregational Union. It is a rectangular building of Gault brick. Beside it was an iron building used as a schoolro...

Thames Tributary River Roding The Roding continues to flow south west and is met by the Loughton Brook from the north west TQ 43842 93835 Post to the east Roding Lane Post to the south Chigwell Area of open space and playing fields on the edges of Loughton and Chigwell Greenstead Road White Bridge Junior School . Roding Lane David Lloyd, Chigwell Sports Centre RAF Chigwell . This was in the area round the David Lloyd Centre. In 1943 it housed 3.600 and covered 70 acres hangers, billet huts, NAAFI, Post office, Chapel, etc. It was initially a centre for Second World War barrage balloons and later mobile air traffic control teams training for the D-Day landings and in the 1950s for the nuclear early warning system. It closed in 1958 and was used by the Air Training Corp. Eventually it was transferred to Chigwell Urban District Council. There remains some concrete roads, and a circular grassed area which was the balloon launch pad Royal Observer Corps post – underground a...

Thames Tributary – River Roding The Roding continues to flow south west and is met by a tributary from the south east Post to the north Oakwood Hill Post to the west Buckhurst Hill Post to the east Barringtons Post to the south Chigwell Station Grange Farm North western area of the land once covered by the Grange Farm Centre, which was a holiday and camping centre opened in 1951. It closed in the 1980s and is now redeveloped for housing, plus a pavilion and nature site, with community use of some space Grange Farm Riding Centre . Thus was set up in 1958 by Mrs. Norah Jacques and called 'Pony Riding for Paralysis' and 'Chigwell Riding Trust For Special Needs' in 2000, inspired by a paralysed Scandinavian Olympic dressage champion. Mrs. Jacques was helped by Gerard van der Gucht of Forest Lodge Riding School who lent ponies. Patients came from St. Margaret's Hospital, Epping and later St. Thomas's Hospital and special schools. The Trust was funded to set u...

Thames Tributary Roding The Roding flows south westwards Post to the east Debden Post to the south Roding Lane Alderton Hall Lane Alderton Infant School , opened in 1952 M11 Oakwood Hill Oakwood Hill Estate . Local authority housing from the 1960s. Recreation Ground and Roding Walk Wooded roadside site Roding Meadows Nature Reserve . It is owned by Epping Forest District Council and the Grange Farm Centre Trust and managed by Essex Wildlife Trust. It consists of unimproved hay meadows, hedgerows, with scrub, secondary woodland and planted tree. It follows the Roding over some of the open space in this area. The meadows are cut for hay in summer, followed by grazing by rare breed Long Horn cows. Ten miles of hedgerow is laid and coppiced. After heavy rain the area is prone to flooding. Four fields are designated a site of special scientific interest

Thames Tributary River Roding The Roding flows westwards and is joined by a tributary from the south TQ 44084 96172 The bridge between down market Debden and Essexey posh Chigwell Post to the north Debden Post to the west Loughton Post to the south Chigwell Post to the east Abridge Road Chigwell Lane Loughton Bridge . This is an ancient crossing although the earliest reference is in the 13th. In the 17th it became a county bridge but the area is subject to flooding and in 1809 it was destroyed by floods and rebuilt in timber by Johnson as County Surveyor but this lasted until only 1824. The next rebuilding provided tunnels under the causeway to channel flood water and there are more recent flood relief schemes here. Mill - There was possibly a mill and mill dam here. M11 Junction 5 . This has no northbound Mway access Sources British History. Online. Essex SABRE. Web site Victoria County History of Essex

Thames Tributary – tributary to the River Roding The tributary flows from a source in Rolls Park, northwards. TQ 44494 94890 The north part of Chigwell as the main road turns towards Abridge. Old houses and some Essexy countryside Site to the west Roding Lane Post to the north Debden Estate Post to the south Chigwell Post to the east not done. Abridge Road Site of Barringtons . This was a manor also known as Little Chigwell but named from the Barrington family which held it from the 12th but in other ownership from the 17th – including the Harvey family, and Sir Elias Harvey, the commander of Teremaire at Trafalgar. The house, Rolls House, was demolished in the 1950s following damage during the war from bombing and from occupation by the army. It was a timber framed and brick 17th building Wall which is listed. It is 17th in red brick with stone coping. This was the boundary wall to the park Chigwell High Road 25 Rolls Park Farm The Orangery. The orangery to Rolls Hous...

Thames Tributary River Roding The Roding flows south west Countyside area north of Chigwell and east of Loughton. Crossed by the M11 and the Roding. Various country houses here have had various uses Post to the west Loughton Bridge Post to the north Abridge Road Post to the east Marchings Abridge Road Woolston Hall . 16th altered in 18th. Timber framed and plastered. Surrounded by 18th red brick wall with gateposts, etc. The estate was owned by William I and then by the Scott family from 1485. From 1939 it was run as a sports club by the Co-operative Wholesale Society and in the 1970s it was used for as ‘The Country Club’ night club - a private members opened by film star Sean Connery and footballer Bobby Moore. It was later bought up by an local entrepreneur and became a raucous night club. Extensions and other entertainment buildings were added, which were very noisy. In 2008 the listed building was gutted by fire. Woolston Hall Golf Club . This was built on the site after...

Thames Tributary River Roding The Roding flows west and south and is joined by a tributary from the north west and another from the south east. Post to the west Debden Post to the east Abridge Post to the south Woolston Hall Abridge Road Broadfield Shaw Gravel Lane London Road M11

Thames Tributary –tributary to the River Roding The tributary picks up tributaries from the east and flows north west Post to the north Abridge Post to the west Woolston Hall Post to the east Lambourne End post to the south Lambourne End Clarks Wood Gravel Lane Marchings . This was once Martin’s Farm and is a 16th timber framed building. In the early 19th this was the premises of a John Arnold, a watch maker. From 1800 until 1843 a watch-making business was carried on at Marchings in Gravel Lane by John Roger Arnold of Dent and Arnold, Strand. In 1821 he patented improvements in chronometers. His workshops are said to be at the rear of a building.

Thames Tributary – tributary to the River Roding The tributary flows westwards Post to the north Marchings Post to the east Lambourne End Post to the west Not Done Post to the south Chigwell Road Maypole Gravel Lane Taylors Farm , this was once known as Coles Farm and is known to be pre-15th Brownings Farm , the farm was there in 1486. This is a medieval building, timber framed and plastered, but with many alterations. Manor House . Barn 17th timber framed and weather boarded. The manor of Stocktons was in this area in the 15th Millers Lane Billingsbourne Farm . Known to be pre-15th. Willow Park Farm

Thames Tributary – tributary to the River Roding The tributary rises in this area and flows westwards Post to the west Lambourne End Post to the north Lambourne Post to the east Lambourne End Post to the south Hainault Forest Manor Road The Camelot . This was once called The Beehive and a plaque with that name on it is still on the Hoe Lane side of the building. The Iron Pound was opposite the pub and used for stray horses and cattle Harmes Farm . 17 th timber framed b uilding Berkeley Farm Project . Charitable p roject running a garden centre

Thames Tributary – tributary to the River Roding Two tributaries meet here and flow south east – one from the north and one from the west . TQ 4466596311 Interesting industrial area alongside the M11 plus part of the Debden E state Post to the north Debden Post to the east Abridge Road Post to the south Loughton Bridge Langston Road Sports field Industrial estate Bank of England Printing Works 1950s. The works is now operated by De La Rue, specialised London based printers. Bank notes had been printed in Old Street since 1916 and in 1956 moved here. The factory was designed by Easton & Robertson and built by Sir Robert McAlpine & Sons Ltd. Aerzen House . Headquarters of machine company. The Crystal Building . Headquarters of Clinton Cards Station Approach Debden Station . The station was originally opened in 1865 and now stands between Loughton and Theydon Bois on the Central Line. It began as a one platform halt and passing place by the Eastern Counties Railwa...

Thames Tributary – tributary to the River Roding The Tributary rises in this area and flows south eastwards TQ 44210 97175 Debden Estate - this was originally London County Council 'overspill'. Post to the south Debden Post to the west Loughton Burney Drive St John Fisher Catholic Primary School Colebrook Lane Open space Jessel Drive The Cottage Loaf pub Mannock Drive Trinity Church . Joint Anglican and Methodist church Willingale Road The Hereward Primary School . This opened in 1953 as two separate schools either side if Colebrook Lane. They merged in 1981, Debden Park High School St Thomas More Catholic Church . Opened 1953 Sources Hereward Primary School. Web site St. Thomas More.  Web site

Thames Tributary – tributary to the River Roding The Tributary rises in this area and flows south eastwards TQ 43941 97522 Suburban area on the edge of Epping Forest and local authority built Debden Post to the west Debden Burney Drive The stream flows alongside the road in a wide grassy verge Chester Road Gunmakers Arms . Large modern pub Church Hill Flats on the site of Loughton bus garage. This garage replaced the one across the road in 1953 and was closed itself in 1986. . Homebase. This building is effectively the 1923 Loughton Bus Garage which was replaced in 1953 and became the Co-op bakery. Plume of Feathers Pub . This pub dates from the 1820s and has a more modern front extension hiding the original building. Clays Lane The road is named after a Mr. Clay Goldings . Blue plaque to Everard Calthrop 1857 – 1927, Engineer and pioneer of the parachute Loughton golf club – 9 hole course Englands Lane The area was developed in the 1920s by George England. It w...

Thames Tributary – River Roding The Roding flows westwards Village north of Chigwell and east of Loughton with a major crossing of the Roding.   This is the village centre with pubs, a few shops, churches and houses Post to the west London Road Post to the south Marchings Post to the north Theydon Hall Post to the east Lambourne Abridge Road Roding Bridge . 19th red brick bridge with limestone keystones. This is an important bridge said to have once been Aeffa's Bridge from which Abridge is named. It became a county bridge after 1594 and rebuilt in 1707. However by the mid 19th flooding was a problem and plans were drawn up for an embankment and culverts paid for jointly by the parish and the county. The present bridge is the result of this. Chapel Chase Evangelical Free Church . The church started in 1923 and this building was set up in 1924. It is wood with a cement-rendered front Hoe Lane 36 Lambourne Primary School . This was built in 1842 for children who ...

Thames Tributary River Roding The Roding flows westwards and is joined by tributaries from the north and south Rural area with scattered farms and crossed by the M11.  Abridge Road heads south towards the crossing of the Roding at Abridge Post to the north Theydon Bois Post to the west Ongar Road Post to the south Abridge Post to the east Abridge Abridge Road Theydon Hall , late Georgian yellow brick. It is on the site of the ancient manor house but was not the manor house from the 17th Original church was nearby. Demolished in 1843 Theydon Hall Farm Piggott’s Farm. Farmhouse from the 17th timber framed and plastered. 18th barn Mossford Green Nursery and camp site Epping Lane Bloody Mead . Local stories that this is the site of a Roman battle M11 Sources Essex County Council. Web site Pevsner and Cherry. Essex Victoria County History. Essex

Thames tributary – tributary to the River Roding The tributary flows northwards to the Roding Post to the west Abridge Post to the north Ongar Road Post to the east Church Lane Post to the south Lambourne End Ape’s Grove. Wood surrounded by an ancient hedge bank. It comprises hornbeam coppice, with occasional oak and ash. There are a number of old including hornbeam and ash coppice stools. There is a large wild service tree and an old field maple pollard. Church Lane St.Mary and All Saints. Pevsner describes this is 'a church of quite exceptional charm and historical range’. It is a 12th church re-modelled in the 18th, built of flint rubble and cement rendered plus a weather boarded bell turret, Inside are 15th wall painting one of St. Christopher and there are also brasses and monuments., Lambourne Hall . Manor house from the 16th timber framed and plastered. In one room is a mantelpiece and panels from Marks Hall, Coggeshall. A stone fire place from here is in the La...

Thames Tributary – tributary to the River Roding The tributary rises in this area and flows northwards to the Roding Post to the west Marchings Post to the north Lambourne Post to the east Lambourne Post to the south Lambourne End Hoe Lane St John’s Farm Knolls Wood New Road Bishops Hall . This is an old manor once held by the Bishop of Norwich and subsequently after the 16th, the Hale family and by the 19th was part of the Lockwood family estate. The original manor house is a moated site to the east. A new hall was built in the 17th by members of the Walker family. This became the home of the Lockwoods but it was demolished in 1936. Another new house was built nearby incorporating some features of the earlier house Moat Liversedge and Atkinson Engineers Lambourne Parish Room Poultry Farm Deux Hall . Also known as Dews Hall and an old manor for the area. Named for Deu or Dew family who held land here in 13th. In the 18th it was purchased by the Lockwood family who liv...

Thames Tributary – tributary to the River The tributary rises in this area and flows southeastwards Post to the north Blunt's Farm Post to the east Hobbs Cross Road Post to the south Abridge Road Abridge Road Thrifts Hall Farm Theydon Bois Cemetery Coopersale Lane Springhouse and Marcris House Nursing Home Motorway compound Epping Lane Hydes Farmhouse . 16th timber framed with 20th pargetted plaster cladding. 17th barn, timber framed and weather boarded. M11 Roman Road Line of Roman road in footpaths

Thames Tributary – River Roding The Roding flows westwards and is joined by a tributary from the north Countryside area around Ongar Road heading east out of Abridge.  Some houses along the road and infrastructure works on the north bank of the Roding Post to the west Abridge Road Post to the north Hobbs Cross Road Post to the east Ongar Road Post to the south Lambourne Epping Lane Hills Farm Theydon Bois Sewage Works Jacksons Farm Ongar Road Oak Farm Black boarded cottages 18th timber framed, weather boarded and plastered Abridge Village Hall Roding House or Coach House. Medieval hall house, timber framed and rendered with some weatherboarding. Hillman's Cottages , six pairs built 1935 for employees at Stapleford Aerodrome Grove Cottage, 2 cottages 19th timber framed, roughcast and rendered with weather boarding Sources Essex County Council. Web site Pevsner and Cherry. Essex Victoria History of Essex.

Thames Tributary – tributary to the River Roding The tributary flows south Post to the north Hobb Cross Farm Post to the west Theydon Bois Post to the south Ongar Road Post to the east Abridge Golf Course Hobbs Cross Road Epping Lane Brook House

Thames Tributary = tributary to the River Roding The tributary flows southwards and is met by another tributary from the west. Post to the west Blunt's Farm Post to the north Hobbs Cross Post to the east Hill Hall Post to the south Hobbs Cross Road Coopersale Road The Priory . 17th House which was once the Rectory. It is timber framed faced with red brick. Barn. 16th Timber framed and weather boarded Church Lane All Saints Church . Dates from 13th and is said to be sited here because of an adjacent road to London. It is also thought that Queen Elizabeth visited the church while staying at Garnish Hall in 1572. 13th with later additions built of flint rubble. The tower is Tudor. On the wall outside is a panel to "Syr John Crosbe Knyghyt late alderman and grosar of London’ and there is also a scratch dial and above it a Sundial. Inside are bequest boards and hatchments as well as many interesting tombs and memorials. An oak door used as a bookcase came from a medieva...

Thames Tributary – tributary to the River Roding The tributary flows eastwards TQ 46390 99114 Country side area in Essex. The M11 goes north through this area and in the north east is part of the junction with the M25. Post to the west Theydon Bois Post to the north Coopersale Hall Post to the east Hobbs Cross Farm Post to the south Theydon Bois M11 Coopersale Lane Blunts Farm . In process of being turned into a golf course/landfill site. Blunts Farm Wood . A small ancient wood, with hornbeam, oak and ash Brownfield. This area is hummocky ground to the north of the stream. South of the stream an area has been destroyed. Church Lane Garnish Hall. 17th house or earlier with red brick and timber framing. Moat. This is the old manor house for the area. Sources Essex County Council. Web site Pevsner and Cherry. Essex

Thames Tributary – tributary to the River Roding The tributary rises in three places in this area and flows eastwards Post to the north Great Gregories Post to the east M11 junction Coppice Row Theydon Green St Mary’s church hall . This is an old army hut put on part of the glebe after the Second World War Theydon Bois Village Hall . A new hall completed in 2001. It replaces an earlier Hall built in 1966 which was on the site of the car park itself the site of the Glebe Field. Forest Drive Old Foresters Sports Ground Loughton Lane 'Avenue of Trees'. These oak trees were planted in the 1830s apparently for Queen Victoria’s accession to the throne. A new line of trees was planted in 2010, set back from the current row in order to replace some which needed to be felled. Mead Barn 2 Queen Victoria . McMullans Pub. 16th building timber framed and plastered Orchard Drive 5 Baldocks . 17th timber framed house with a red brick front Theydon Bois Primary School Sla...