Epping Green, Essex
| Epping Green | |
| Essex | |
|---|---|
 Epping Green | |
| Location | |
| Grid reference: | TL435052 |
| Location: | 51°43’42"N, -0°4’38"E |
| Data | |
| Post town: | Epping |
| Postcode: | CM16 |
| Dialling code: | 01992 |
| Local Government | |
| Council: | Epping Forest |
| Parliamentary constituency: |
Epping Forest |
Epping Green is a village Essex, on the B181 road between Epping and Harlow.
The village is the Church of England parish church of All Saints, Epping Upland. In Epping Green itself is an evangelical chapel, Epping Green Chapel.[1]
The parish of Epping Upland, which stretches from the Wake Arms public house near Upshire at the south to the outskirts of Harlow at its northern edge, takes in part of Thornwood Common at the east, and the hamlet of Rye Hill. Epping Green lies mainly within Epping Forest land although most farmland is owned by Copped Hall Estates.
Through the village are ancient market routes and cattle drover's lanes, which were routes from as far as Norfolk. The traditional village pond was originally a blacksmith's cooling pond. Following the closure of the combined post office and village store around 1996,[2] the closure of the Cock & Magpie public house around 2018 and the decision by the long-standing owner to put the remaining pub, The Traveller's Friend, up for sale in 2021, the village has lost its remaining commercial amenities.
The 13th-century parish church of All Saints' at Epping Upland, less than a mile to the south-east, serves Epping Green, and was the original Epping church before St John's was built in today’s town.
Between the 1920s and 1940s Epping Green consisted chiefly of wooden cottages built along a country road.
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