Edith's Streets

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...