Woodford Wells

Woodford Wells
Woodford Wells
	Woodford Wells Location within Greater London
London borough	Redbridge;
Ceremonial county	Greater London
Region	London;
Country	England
Sovereign state	United Kingdom
Post town	WOODFORD GREEN
Postcode district	IG8
Dialling code	020
Police	Metropolitan
Fire	London
Ambulance	London
London Assembly	Havering and Redbridge;
	List of places UK England London 51°36′56″N 0°01′44″E / 51.615645°N 0.028861°E

Woodford Wells is a small settlement on the edge of Epping Forest, in Woodford, East London. The area lies about 9.5 miles (15.3 km) north-east of Charing Cross.

The name is shown in the Chapman and Andre 1777 map of Essex, and shortly after on an Ordnance Survey map of 1805;^[1] the name refers to mineral water wells. In the 18th century briefly the hamlet was a small spa but by the 1870s the wells had been long neglected and Woodford Wells had become part of a "straggle of hamlets".^[2]^[3] Among its notable features is the Horse & Well, a 17th-century coaching inn still in operation. Woodford Wells is home to Woodford Wells F.C.

Education

Bancroft’s School a Secondary school, has been at Woodford Wells since the 1880s. St Aubyn's School was founded here in January 1884. In 1893, and again in 1919, it moved southwards along the High Road. It can now be found at Bunces Lane, Woodford Green.

Religion

The area became a separate Anglican ecclesiastical parish in 1911 (All Saints Church, Woodford Wells ), with the completion of St Barnabas' Church taking responsibility for the area near Woodford Underground Station.

References

^ Mills, A.D. (2001). Dictionary of London Place Names. Oxford.
^ James Thorne (1876). Handbook to the environs of London: alphabetically arranged, containing an account of every town and village, and of all places of interest, within a circle of twenty miles round London. Vol. 2. London: J. Murray. pp. 736–738.
^ Bridget Cherry; Charles O'Brien; Nikolaus Pevsner, eds. (2005). London, Volume 5. Pevsner Architectural Guides. Yale University Press. pp. 63, 371–372. ISBN 0-300-10701-3.

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[Mills-1] Mills, A.D. (2001). Dictionary of London Place Names. Oxford.

[2] James Thorne (1876). Handbook to the environs of London: alphabetically arranged, containing an account of every town and village, and of all places of interest, within a circle of twenty miles round London. Vol. 2. London: J. Murray. pp. 736–738.

[3] Bridget Cherry; Charles O'Brien; Nikolaus Pevsner, eds. (2005). London, Volume 5. Pevsner Architectural Guides. Yale University Press. pp. 63, 371–372. ISBN 0-300-10701-3.

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