Edith's Streets

Thames Tributaries Seven Kings Water and Hog Hill Ditch Seven Kings Water flowing south east joins Hog Hill Ditch flowing south west and they flow south east towards the River Roding. Post to the north Hainault Post to the west Fairlop Plain Post to the south Little Heath Post to the east Not done Hainault Road After the disafforestation of Hainault in the 1850's new roads were made in the former forest area, of which the most important was Hainault Road. The area was farmland taken over for wartime RAF use and then returned to farmland, purchased by Ilford Borough Council post war to prevent expansion into a civilian airport. Hainault Farm Aerodrome situated to the east of Hainault Road was occupied by the Royal Flying Corps in 1915. It was set up as a Home Defence fighter airfield  and later as a substation for 207 TDS at Chingford until closure in 1919. It was considered as a City of London airport in 1930 and rebuilt as a fighter airfield in 1940 until 1944 when it bec...

Thames Tributary Seven Kings Water Seven Kings Water flows south west towards the River Roding Post to the north Hainault Post to the west Hainault Post to the south Hainault Farm Post to the east Hog Hill Elmbridge Road Muslim Cemetery. Gardens of Peace . Seven Kings Water has been specially landscaped through the cemetery. Prefabs – there was a ‘prefab’ estate at the junction of Elmbridge and Forest Roads. Some faced onto Elmbridge Road but there were also roads within the estate which included green areas and some landscaping. The houses are thought to have been demolished in the 1960s. Fairlop Sports Ground. Forest Road Playing Fields Elmbridge Club . Sports and social club with a wide range of sporting and other facilities North View Caravan site. Local authority travellers’ site. This had been a community facility for nearby airfields and some buildings were used by local scouts. The travellers' site was eventually opened here by Yul Brynner. Fairlop Aerod...

Thames Tributary Seven Kings Water Seven Kings Water rises in this area and flows south towards the River Roding Post to the north Hainault Forest Post to the south Hog Hill Post to the west Hainault Post to the east not done Beaver Road Beaver Industrial Estate Fowler Road Industrial and trade units Fox Burrow Road, Hainault. The name from ‘higne holt’ meaning a wood that belongs to a monastery. ‘and refers to ownership by the abbey of Barking. The modern spelling is due an imagined connection with Philippa of Hainault, Edward III’ wife. Hainault Forest . This was part of the Forest of Waltham. In 1291 the Abbess of Barking was licensed to sell timber from Hainault Forest in aid of the abbey’s marshlands. The forest was a common waste of Barking parish until the 1850's – this gave rights of pasture there to Barking people. Cattle were sent there for the winter as were Barking pigs. A public outcry followed the destruction of the wood-pasture in six weeks during 185...

Thames Tributary Hog Hill Ditch Hog Hill Ditch rises in this area and flows south towards Seven Kings Water and the Roding. Post to the north Hainault Forest Post to the west Hainault Post to the south not done Post to the east Hainault Forest Forest Road After the disafforestation of Hainault in the 1850's new roads were made in the former forest area, of which the most important was Forest Road. In 1857 a railway had been projected to run roughly on the line of the road to what is now the junction with Romford Road Niscayah. offices of security company. Used to be called Bell Security Forest Park Cemetery and Crematorium. Owned by the Westerleigh Group it was the first crematorium to be built in London for over forty years when it was opened in 2005. The chapel and office are in wood and stone and the chapel is flexible to meet the range of religious and cultural communities Redbridge Cycling Centre. An Olympic funded cycling centre with a track and many other faci...

Thames Tributary River Roding The Roding continues to flow south Post to the east Loxford Post to the south Barking/Newham borders Post to the west Little Ilford Post to the north Great Ilford Baxter Road St Luke Church The church was begun in 1915 but not finished. In 1940 it was bombed and it was rebuilt for 1954. It is stone and red brick, designed by Edwin T. Dunn. In 1983 it church was re-orientated, placing the altar at the west end. It was burnt out by a bomb 1940 and was not reconsecrated until 1954. In 1982-3 the orientation was turned through 180 degrees, and offices, a kitchen and other rooms were built under the transepts. St.Peter’s Mathoma Church . Also uses the buildings. Apparently St. Thomas the disciple went to India reaching the Malabar Coast in 52 A.D – and called Mar Thoma and was killed in Madras. He had founded seven congregations in Kerala and in the 6th century was joined by Persian Nestorians and in the 16th Catholic missionaries forced them to sign...

Thames Tributary River Roding The Roding continues to flow south east towards the Thames. It is joined by the Cranbrook from the north west The Aldersbrook flows parallel to the Roding on its west side The Great Eastern Railway from Liverpool Street to Ilford runs north eastwards from Manor Park Station and onwards. The boundary between Ilford and East Ham follows the Aldersbrook west of the Roding. This suggests that it may originally have been part of the main stream. Aldersbrook  The name means 'brook where alders grow". An earlier name for the farm here was ‘Naked hall.  The area is dominated by the large cemetery owned by the City Corporation which lies west of the Roding, and the North Circular and north of the Great Eastern Railway Post to the north Cranbrook Post to the south Little Ilford Post to the east Great Ilford Aldersbrook Road City of London Cemetery . Founded by Corporation of London and laid out in 1853 by William Haywood, surveyor to the Commis...

Thames Tributary Cranbrook The Cranbrook flows south west through Valentine’s Park Post to the west Cranbrook Post to the east Seven Kings Post to the south Great Ilford Post to the north Gants Hill Bethell Avenue A scheme of seventy houses by H. C. Lander for the Town Planning and Garden Co. c. 1910, with larger than average individual dwellings Bethell, like Holcombe was a tar manufacturer – and for a while they used the same site in Greenwich Cranbrook Road Was called Cranbrook Lane and ran from the village north, past Valentines to Woodford. 245-247 Wycliffe House . Offices in church building which was for a while Ilford Playhouse. Built in 1907, by P W Dixon of Manchester in Art Nouveau Gothic with Red brick and yellow terracotta. It was originally called Christ Church Congregational, Church which had opened in an iron building in 1895. In 1906 it was joined by the members of Wycliffe Congregational church, Stepney, which had opened in 1642 and in 1907 the united c...