Epping Green is a village in the
civil parish
In England, a civil parish is a type of administrative parish used for local government. It is a territorial designation which is the lowest tier of local government below districts and counties, or their combined form, the unitary authorit ...
of
Epping Upland
Epping Upland is a village and civil parish in the Epping Forest district of Essex, England.Hagger, Nicholas; ''A View of Epping Forest'', O Books (2012), p. 29.
The village is situated on the B181 road, approximately south of the town of ...
and
Epping Forest
Epping Forest is a area of ancient woodland, and other established habitats, which straddles the border between Greater London and Essex. The main body of the forest stretches from Epping in the north, to Chingford on the edge of the London ...
district of
Essex
Essex () is a county in the East of England. One of the home counties, it borders Suffolk and Cambridgeshire to the north, the North Sea to the east, Hertfordshire to the west, Kent across the estuary of the River Thames to the south, and Grea ...
, England, situated on the B181 road between
Epping Epping may refer to:
Places
Australia
* Epping, New South Wales, a suburb of Sydney
** Epping railway station, Sydney
* Electoral district of Epping, the corresponding seat in the New South Wales Legislative Assembly
* Epping Forest, Kearns, a he ...
and
Harlow.
The parish of
Epping Upland
Epping Upland is a village and civil parish in the Epping Forest district of Essex, England.Hagger, Nicholas; ''A View of Epping Forest'', O Books (2012), p. 29.
The village is situated on the B181 road, approximately south of the town of ...
, which stretches from the Wake Arms
public house
A pub (short for public house) is a kind of drinking establishment which is licensed to serve alcoholic drinks for consumption on the premises. The term ''public house'' first appeared in the United Kingdom in late 17th century, and wa ...
near
Upshire
Upshire is a village and area of Waltham Abbey in the Epping Forest District of Essex, England. The centre of the village is on Horseshoe Hill (a minor road), on which is The Horseshoe public house, and the church of St Thomas, a Grade II* listed ...
at the south to the outskirts of Harlow at the north, 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
Copped Hall, also known as Copt Hall or Copthall, is a mid-18th-century English country house close to Waltham Abbey, Essex, which has been undergoing restoration since 1999. Copped Hall is visible from the M25 motorway between junctions 26 a ...
Estates and leased to the local farmers.
Through the village are ancient market routes and cattle drover's lanes, which were routes from as far afield as
Norfolk
Norfolk () is a ceremonial and non-metropolitan county in East Anglia in England. It borders Lincolnshire to the north-west, Cambridgeshire to the west and south-west, and Suffolk to the south. Its northern and eastern boundaries are the No ...
. The traditional village pond was originally a blacksmith's cooling pond. Following the closure of the combined post office and village store around 1996, 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
A parish is a territorial entity in many Christian denominations, constituting a division within a diocese. A parish is under the pastoral care and clerical jurisdiction of a priest, often termed a parish priest, who might be assisted by one o ...
church of All Saints' at Epping Upland, less than to the south-east, serves Epping Green, and was the original Epping church before St John's was built.
Between the 1920s and 1940s Epping Green consisted chiefly of wooden cottages built along a country road.
Education
The village has its own Church of England
primary school
A primary school (in Ireland, the United Kingdom, Australia, Trinidad and Tobago, Jamaica, and South Africa), junior school (in Australia), elementary school or grade school (in North America and the Philippines) is a school for primary e ...
, Epping Upland Church of England Primary School.
[https://eppinguplandcofeschool.co.uk/]
Transport
Bus
References
External links
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Villages in Essex
Epping Forest District