Greensted
Greensted is a small village in the civil parish of Ongar, in the Epping Forest District of Essex, England. It was formerly a separate civil parish, but was merged into Ongar in 1965.Photo: Charles01, Public domain.
- Type: Village
- Description: village in Essex, United Kingdom
- Also known as: “Greenstead”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Greensted Church and Ongar railway station.
Greensted Church
Church
Photo: Acabashi, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Greensted Church, in the small village of Greensted, near Chipping Ongar in Essex, England, has been claimed to be the oldest wooden church in the world, and probably the oldest wooden building in Europe still standing, albeit only in part, since few sections of its original wooden structure remain.
Ongar railway station
Railway station
Photo: Sunil060902, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Ongar railway station is a station on the Epping Ongar Railway heritage line, and a former London Underground station in the town of Chipping Ongar, Essex.
Blake Hall tube station
Railway station
Photo: Andrew Smith, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Blake Hall is a disused former station on the London Underground in the civil parish of Stanford Rivers, and south from the village of Bobbingworth in Essex.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Chipping Ongar and Greensted Green.
Chipping Ongar
Town
Photo: John Winfield, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Chipping Ongar is a market town in the parish of Ongar, in the Epping Forest District of Essex, England. It is located 6 miles east of Epping, 7 miles south-east of Harlow and 7 miles north-west of Brentwood.
Greensted Green
Village
Greensted Green is hamlet in the Ongar civil parish of the Epping Forest district, in the English county of Essex. It is positioned at the western end of Greensted, slightly above 2 miles to the west of Chipping Ongar.
Marden Ash
Hamlet
Marden Ash is an urban settlement in the Ongar civil parish of the Epping Forest District of Essex, England. The settlement, previously a village of High Ongar parish, is contiguous with the small town of Chipping Ongar.
Greensted
- Categories: civil parish and locality
- Location: Ongar, Epping Forest District, Essex, East of England, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
51.70499° or 51° 42′ 18″ northLongitude
0.22541° or 0° 13′ 32″ eastElevation
246 feet (75 metres)Open location code
9F32P63G+X5OpenStreetMap ID
node 29175349OpenStreetMap feature
place=village
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