Epping Upland is a village and

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in the

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

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, 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

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, and north-west of the town of

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 the M11 motorway. Epping Upland

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is dedicated to All Saints, with the Epping Upland

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part of the

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. The church dates to the 13th century and is Grade II*

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. Until the Dissolution of the Monasteries, All Saints was under the jurisdiction of

Waltham Abbey Waltham Abbey is a town and civil parish in the Epping Forest District of Essex, within the metropolitan and urban area of London, England, north-east of Charing Cross. It lies on the Greenwich Meridian, between the River Lea in the west and ...

. 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. Lewis, Samuel (1840), ''A Topographical Dictionary of England: Comprising the Several Counties, Cities, Boroughs, Corporate & Market Towns...'', p. 160. Reprint

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(2014). Gorton, John; ''A Topographical Dictionary of Great Britain and Ireland; Compiled from Local Information, and the Most Recent and Official Authorities'' (1833), p. 741. Reprint Nabu Press (2011). In 1831 the village of Epping Upland had a population of 427 within 83 houses. At the time, eighty percent of the village population, and forty percent of the parish, were employed in agriculture. Epping Upland - Upland Road looking east towards Takeleys

Epping Upland - Upland Road looking east towards Takeleys

Among further listed Epping Upland village buildings is Takeleys, a Grade II

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, as part of a moated site, which dates to the 16th century (''

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'': 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.

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; Radcliffe, Enid; ''Essex'' (The Buildings of England),

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to be launched landed at Epping Upland. The local primary school is Epping Upland C of E Primary School. Epping Upland has bus services to Epping and Harlow.

Civil parish

Epping Upland civil parish stretches from the southern outskirts of Harlow in the north to the

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in the south, a distance of approximately , and a distance of 3 miles west of

Thornwood Common Thornwood Common is a village on the B1393 road, in the civil parish of North Weald Bassett and the Epping Forest district of Essex, England. In 2018 it had an estimated population of 1016. The town of Epping Epping may refer to: Places Austr ...

in the east. The village of Epping Green and the hamlets of

Jacks Hatch Jacks Hatch (also spelt Jack's Hatch), is a hamlet in the Epping Upland civil parish of the Epping Forest district of Essex, England. Jacks Hatch is north-west from the parish village of Epping Upland, south-southwest from the town centre of ...

and Rye Hill are situated just inside the northern edge of the civil parish. In 2001 the population of Epping Upland Parish was 790,"Epping Upland CP (Parish)"

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increasing to 831 at the 2011 Census. The parish includes the earthwork remains of the scheduled Ambresbury Banks, an

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Epping Upland Parish CouncilEpping Upland CE Primary SchoolAll Saints Church, Epping UplandEpping Forest District CouncilEssex County Council
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