Greensted Green

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.

Places of Interest

Highlights include Blake Hall tube station and Greensted Church.

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.

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. Ongar railway station is situated 1½ miles east of Greensted Green.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Toot Hill and Greensted.

Toot Hill

Village

Photo: Robert Edwards, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Toot Hill is a village in the Stanford Rivers civil parish in the Epping Forest district of Essex, England. It is 2.3 miles south-west of Chipping Ongar and 3.5 miles east of Epping.

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.