Epping Upland
| Epping Upland | |
| Essex | |
|---|---|
 All Saints' Church, Epping Upland | |
| Location | |
| Grid reference: | TL444045 |
| Location: | 51°43’16"N, -0°5’23"E |
| Data | |
| Population: | 831 (2011) |
| Post town: | Epping |
| Postcode: | CM16 |
| Dialling code: | 01992 |
| Local Government | |
| Council: | Epping Forest |
| Parliamentary constituency: |
Epping Forest |
Epping Upland, formerly just Epping is a village in Essex.[1] It was the original ‘Epping’, listed in the Domesday Book, until its former hamlet, Epping Heath, grew into a town and assumed the name.
It is on the B181 road, approximately three miles south of the town of Harlow, and two miles north-west of the town of Epping and the M11 motorway.
The parish church, All Saints, is a Grade II* listed building.[2] The church dates to the 13th century.
Until the Dissolution of the Monasteries, All Saints was under the jurisdiction of Waltham Abbey.[3]
In the first half of the 19th century part of today's town of Epping was within the civil parish of Epping Upland and was part of the ecclesiastical parish centred on All Saints'. The south-eastern urban and market part of Epping Upland joined the hamlet of Epping Street to become the town of Epping.[4][5][6] In 1831 the village of Epping Upland had a population of 427 within 83 houses. At the time, eighty per cent of the village population, and forty per cent of the parish, were employed in agriculture.[7][8]
Among further listed Epping Upland village buildings is Takeleys, a Grade II timber-framed house, as part of a moated site, which dates to the 16th century (Pevsner: early 17th), with 18th-century alterations. It contains an "elaborately carved" chimney piece and, in an upper room, 17th-century brown and black wall paintings in floral style on plasterwork.[9][10]
On 8 September 1944, during the Second World War, the first German V-2 rocket to be launched landed at Epping Upland.[11]
The parish includes the earthwork remains of Ambresbury Banks, an Iron Age hill fort and a scheduled ancient monument.[1]
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References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Hagger, Nicholas; A View of Epping Forest, O Books (2012), p. 29. ISBN 1846945879
- ↑ National Heritage List 1111168: Church of All Saints, Upland Road (Grade II* listing)
- ↑ A History of the County of Essex - Volume 5 pp 127-132: Epping: Economic history and local government (Victoria County History)
- ↑ White, William; White's Directory of Essex 1848
- ↑ Lewis, Samuel (1840), A Topographical Dictionary of England: Comprising the Several Counties, Cities, Boroughs, Corporate & Market Towns..., p. 160
- ↑ Gorton, John; A Topographical Dictionary of Great Britain and Ireland; Compiled from Local Information, and the Most Recent and Official Authorities (1833), p. 741 ISBN 1178780511
- ↑ The Penny Cyclopædia of The Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge (1831) Vols 9-10, p. 21. Reprint Ulan Press (2012)
- ↑ Oxley, James Edwin (1965); Reformation in Essex to the Death of Mary, Manchester University Press, p. 159. ISBN 0719000939
- ↑ National Heritage List 1181566: Takeleys, Upland Road (Grade II listing)
- ↑ Nikolaus Pevsner: The Buildings of England: Essex, 1954; 1965; 2007 Penguin Books ISBN 978-0-300-09601-9page 175
- ↑ "2754 people Killed in Enemy's Rocket Bomb Attacks", The Glasgow Herald, 27 April 1945, p. 4. Retrieved 9 March 2015