Greensted Green
| Greensted Green | |
| Essex | |
|---|---|
 Fishing lakes in Greensted Green | |
| Location | |
| Grid reference: | TL524033 |
| Location: | 51°42’30"N, -0°12’16"E |
| Data | |
| Postcode: | CM5 |
| Local Government | |
| Council: | Epping Forest |
Greensted Green is hamlet in south-western Essex, clustered at a meeting of lanes to the west of Greensted. It is found just over two miles west of Chipping Ongar, and a mile and a half east of North Weald Bassett. The Epping Ongar Railway, a heritage line sundered form the London Underground, skirts the hamlet.
The "Green" in the name "Greensted Green" refers to an area directly to the south of the Greensted road and the east of the Toot Hill road which was fenced off for agricultural use probably towards the end of the nineteenth century. The south-western corner of the former green was for many years a marshy area at the confluence of various drainage ditches, but towards the end of the twentieth century it was dug out and extended, to create a small pond for ducks and (especially in winter) geese.
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