Woodford Green is an area of Woodford in north-east

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, within the London Borough of Redbridge. It adjoins

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to the north,

Woodford Bridge Woodford Bridge is part of the East London suburb of Woodford, in the London Borough of Redbridge. It is located on an old road between Chigwell and Leytonstone. Notable features Its notable features include Claybury Asylum, a psychiatric ho ...

to the east,

South Woodford South Woodford is an area of east London, England, within the London Borough of Redbridge. It adjoins Woodford Green to the north, Walthamstow to the west, Snaresbrook and Wanstead to the south and Redbridge to the east, and is north-ea ...

to the south, and

Chingford Chingford is a town in east London, England, within the London Borough of Waltham Forest. The town is approximately north-east of Charing Cross, with Waltham Abbey to the north, Woodford Green and Buckhurst Hill to the east, Walthamstow t ...

to the west.

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runs through Woodford Green in the west of the area, north-east of Charing Cross. It was a hamlet in the ancient

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of Woodford St Mary, in the historic county of

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, becoming an urban district in 1894. For administrative purposes, this merged with the

Wanstead Urban District Wanstead () is a town in East London, England, in the London Borough of Redbridge. It borders South Woodford to the north, Redbridge to the east and Forest Gate to the south, with Leytonstone and Walthamstow to the west. It is located 8 miles ...

to form the Wanstead and Woodford Urban District in 1934. In 1965, the urban district became part of the London Borough of Redbridge.

Politics

Woodford Green is part of the Parliamentary Constituency of Chingford and Woodford Green, represented since its creation in 1997 by

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, leader of the Conservative Party from 2001 to 2003. He was Secretary of State for Work and Pensions from 2010 to 2016. Duncan Smith is a successor of Sir

Winston Churchill Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill (30 November 187424 January 1965) was a British statesman, soldier, and writer who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom twice, from 1940 to 1945 during the Second World War, and again from ...

, who was also MP for this area and is commemorated by a statue on Woodford Green erected in 1959. In the 1920s and 1930s, Clement Attlee, later Labour

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from 1945 to 1951, lived in Woodford Green, the seat of his political adversary, Winston Churchill. A Blue Plaque records the fact on a house in Monkhams Avenue.

Sylvia Pankhurst Estelle Sylvia Pankhurst (5 May 1882 – 27 September 1960) was a campaigning English feminist and socialist. Committed to organising working-class women in London's East End, and unwilling in 1914 to enter into a wartime political truce with t ...

lived in Woodford Green from 1924 to 1956, originally in the High Road, and from 1933 in Charteris Road. In 1935, Pankhurst commissioned and dedicated a memorial in Woodford High Road to the victims of

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aerial bombing in

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, known as the Anti-Air War Memorial.

Sport

Cricket

Woodford Green Cricket Club was founded in 1735 and is the oldest cricket club in the world that still plays on the original ground alongside the High Road. The club has teams for all age groups with the senior teams playing in the Hamro Essex League.

Athletics

Woodford Green with Essex Ladies is one of the leading British athletics clubs and is based at Ashton Fields. The club topped Division 1 of the British Athletics League for the first time in 2005.

Education

Primary schools

*Avon House Preparatory School (Independent) *Churchfields Junior School * Bancroft's Preparatory School *Ray Lodge Primary School *St Antony's Catholic Primary School * St Aubyn's School *

Woodford Green Preparatory School Woodford Green Preparatory School is a preparatory school in Woodford Green, London. It was founded in 1932 to provide a non-denominational Christian education for boys and girls. The first headmistress was Norah Kathleen Read. The current headm ...

*Wells Primary School
Woodford Green Primary
*St. Joseph's Convent School * Roding Primary School

Secondary schools

Bancroft's School Bancroft's School is a co-educational independent day school located in Woodford Green, London Borough of Redbridge. The school currently has around 1,000 pupils aged between 7 and 18, around 200 of whom are pupils of the Preparatory School an ...

, Woodford Green, (Independent) * Trinity Catholic High School * Woodbridge High School * Woodford County High School for Girls

Special needs schools

*Hatton School

Demography

Woodford Green is represented by the Monkhams electoral ward in the London Borough of Redbridge. It ranks as one of the highest income areas of Greater London.

Notable people

Statue of Winston Churchill, Woodford Green

* Clement Attlee, Labour

(1945-1951) * Nick Browne, cricketer * Philip Burnell, cricketer *

( 1940-1945 and 1951-1955 ) * Harris Dickinson, actor. *

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, actress. * James Hilton, author * Alfred Horsley Hinton, photographer * Stuart Kuttner, managing editor of the '' News of the World'' * Barry Lamb, experimental musician, composer * Louisa Leaman, author * Michael Norgrove, boxer *

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musician *

, suffragette *

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, organist * Kate Williams, actress, Woodford resident during the making of the TV series '' Love Thy Neighbour''

Transport and locale

Roads and buses

The A104 runs through Woodford Green and forms its High Street while Chigwell Road, the A113, runs along the east side with Broadmead Road connecting the two. Woodford Green is served by

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. Various London Buses routes also connect Woodford Green with nearby major towns:

Nearest places

*Woodford Wells *Wanstead *Loughton *Leytonstone *Roding Valley *Barkingside *Chigwell *

* Walthamstow *

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The nearest

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are Woodford,

and Roding Valley on the Central line.

References

{{LB Waltham Forest Areas of London Districts of the London Borough of Redbridge