Holloway Down was a village,

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and now part of

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in the London Borough of Waltham Forest. The village was sited at the junction of Union Lane (now Thorne Close) and Leytonstone Road (now High Road, Leytonstone) It is most notable as the location of the

West Ham Union Workhouse West Ham Union Workhouse was a workhouse in Leytonstone, built in the village of Holloway Down between 1839 and 1841 and run by the West Ham Poor Law Union. That Union covered several parishes in what is now Newham, Redbridge and Waltham Forest. ...

, While the village has been replaced by Victorian terraces and shops, buildings from the workhouse remain; which have been converted into housing and part of North East London

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Foundation Trust. Holloway Down and the workhouses were built on land that was originally part of

Stratford Langthorne Abbey Stratford Langthorne Abbey, or the Abbey of St Mary's, Stratford Langthorne was a Cistercian monastery founded in 1135 at Stratford Langthorne — then Essex but now Stratford in the London Borough of Newham. The Abbey, also known as West H ...

estate. The name comes from the Prioress of

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, who was granted the land, then called Ladune in 1201. By the 15th century the area was called Holywell Down. In 1791, Holloway Down was the location for The Old Thatched House public house before being relocated to a new building in 1875, as The Thatched House Inn; 100 yards south at the junction with Cutthroat Lane (now Crownfield Road) and Cannhall Lane (now Cann Hall Road).

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