Chingford
Chingford is a suburban town in east London, England, within the London Borough of Waltham Forest. Situated on the Lea Valley, around 9.5 miles north-east of Charing Cross, it lies between the River Lea in the west and Epping Forest in the north and east.Photo: Richard Dunn, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Places of Interest
Highlights include Epping Forest and Chingford railway station.
Epping Forest
Photo: Mx. Granger, CC0.
Epping Forest is a large, ancient woodland in southern England, straddling London and Essex. It is home to 85% of the UK's veteran beech pollards and a variety of reptile, bat and fungi species.
Chingford railway station
Railway station
Photo: Sunil060902, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Chingford railway station is the terminus of the Chingford branch of the Lea Valley Lines, located in Chingford in the London Borough of Waltham Forest.
Highams Park railway station
Railway station
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Highams Park is a railway station on the Chingford branch of the Weaver line, located in Highams Park in the London Borough of Waltham Forest. It is 8 miles 52 chains down the line from London Liverpool Street and is situated between Wood Street and Chingford.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Walthamstow and Loughton.
Walthamstow
Town
Photo: David Gerard, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Walthamstow is a town within the London Borough of Waltham Forest in north-east London. The town borders Chingford to the north, Snaresbrook and South Woodford to the east, Leyton and Leytonstone to the south, and Tottenham to the west. Walthamstow is situated 3½ miles south of Chingford.
Loughton
Town
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Loughton is a town and civil parish in the Epping Forest District of Essex, England. It is inside the M25 London orbital motorway but lies just outside the administrative boundary of Greater London. Loughton is situated 2½ miles northeast of Chingford.
Edmonton
Suburb
Photo: Nigel Cox, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Edmonton is a town in north London, England within the London Borough of Enfield, a local government district of Greater London. The northern part of the town is known as Lower Edmonton or Edmonton Green, and the southern part as Upper Edmonton. Edmonton is situated 3½ miles west of Chingford.
Chingford
- Type: Suburb with 70,600 residents
- Description: area of the London Borough of Waltham Forest in London, England
- Categories: town, area of London, and locality
- Location: Waltham Forest, Greater London, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
51.6309° or 51° 37′ 51″ northLongitude
0.004° or 0° 0′ 14″ eastPopulation
70,600Elevation
184 feet (56 metres)United Nations Location Code
GB CGFOpen location code
9F32J2J3+9HOpenStreetMap ID
node 21415113OpenStreetMap feature
place=suburb
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Asturian to Welsh—“Chingford” goes by many names.
- Asturian: “Chingford”
- Basque: “Chingford”
- Catalan: “Chingford”
- Chinese: “清福德”
- Chinese: “青福德”
- Danish: “Chingford”
- Dutch: “Chingford”
- French: “Chingford”
- Greek: “Τσίνγκφορντ”
- Hebrew: “צ’ינגפורד”
- Irish: “Chingford”
- Italian: “Chingford”
- Japanese: “チングフォード”
- Japanese: “チンフォード”
- Ladin: “Chingford”
- Luxembourgish: “Chingford”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Chingford”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Chingford”
- Norwegian: “Chingford”
- Persian: “چینگفورد”
- Polish: “Chingford”
- Portuguese: “Chingford”
- Russian: “Чингфорд”
- South Azerbaijani: “چینقفورد”
- Swedish: “Chingford”
- Turkish: “Chingford”
- Urdu: “چنگفورڈ”
- Vietnamese: “Chingford”
- Welsh: “Chingford”
- “Chingford”
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