Ongar
Ongar is a civil parish in the Epping Forest District of Essex, England. The parish is named after its main settlement of Chipping Ongar and also includes the settlements of Greensted, Greensted Green, Marden Ash, and Shelley.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Locality with 7,140 residents
- Description: civil parish in Epping Forest, Essex, England, UK
- Also known as: “Ongar (civil parish), Essex” and “Ongar, Essex”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Greensted Church and Blake Hall tube 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.
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.
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.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Chipping Ongar and Greensted.
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
Village
Photo: Charles01, Public domain.
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.
Norton Mandeville
Hamlet
Norton Mandeville is a village in the civil parish of High Ongar, in the Epping Forest district of Essex, England. The settlement is at the north of the parish, and less than 1 mile north from the A414 Harlow to Chelmsford road. Norton Mandeville is situated 2 miles east of Ongar.
Ongar
- Category: civil parish
- Location: Epping Forest District, Essex, East of England, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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In Other Languages
From Bengali to Urdu—“Ongar” goes by many names.
- Bengali: “অঙ্গার”
- Cebuano: “Ongar”
- Chinese: “Ongar”
- Chinese: “翁加尔 (埃塞克斯郡)”
- Chinese: “翁加尔”
- Chinese: “翁加爾 (埃塞克斯郡)”
- Chinese: “翁加爾”
- Dutch: “Ongar”
- French: “Ongar”
- German: “Ongar”
- Gujarati: “ઓન્ગર”
- Irish: “Ongar”
- Italian: “Ongar”
- Japanese: “オンガー”
- Kannada: “ಒಂಗಾರ್”
- Korean: “온가”
- Lithuanian: “Ongaras”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Ongar”
- Polish: “Ongar”
- Portuguese: “Ongar”
- Russian: “Онгар”
- Scottish Gaelic: “Ongar”
- Spanish: “Ongar”
- Swedish: “Ongar, Essex”
- Swedish: “Ongar”
- Tamil: “ஓங்கார்”
- Telugu: “ఒంగార్”
- Turkish: “Ongar, Essex”
- Urdu: “ونگر”
- “Ongar”
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Localities in the Area
Explore places such as Ongar and Marden Ash.
Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include Ongar Castle and Ongar War Memorial Hospital.
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