Great Monk Wood

Great Monk Wood is a wood within Epping Forest, in Essex, England. The wood, in the parish of Loughton, is centred on the Wakes Arms junction roundabout of the A104 Epping New Road, and the A121, and is southwest from the town of Epping and north from Loughton.

Places of Interest

Highlights include Epping Forest and Holy Innocents Church, High Beach.

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.

Holy Innocents Church, High Beach

Church

Photo: Robert Edwards, CC BY-SA 2.0.

The Holy Innocents Church is a Grade II listed Anglican parish church located in the village of High Beach, Essex, England. Designed in the Gothic Revival style, the church is noted for its picturesque setting.

St. John’s Church

Church

Photo: Tim Westcott, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include High Beach and Loughton.

High Beach

Locality

Photo: Alan Fleming, CC BY-SA 2.0.

High Beach is a village inside Epping Forest in south-west Essex, England. Part of the civil parish of Waltham Abbey, the village is within the Epping Forest District and the ward of Waltham Abbey High Beach, and lies approximately 11 miles north-east of Charing Cross.

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.

Ambresbury Banks

Locality

Photo: Chmee2, CC BY-SA 3.0.

Ambresbury Banks is the name given to the remains of an Iron Age hill fort in Epping Forest, Essex, England. It lies in 'Long Running & Ambresbury Banks', south of Bell Common and north of Loughton and its neighbouring hillfort Loughton Camp.

Great Monk Wood

Type: Locality
Description: woodland in Epping Forest, Essex, England
Category: forest
Location: Loughton, Epping Forest District, Essex, East of England, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude

51.66656° or 51° 39′ 60″ north

Longitude

0.05741° or 0° 3′ 27″ east

Open location code

9F32M384+JX

OpenStreetMap ID

node 3136603293

OpenStreetMap feature

place=locality

Wikidata ID

Q5599589

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