Ambresbury Banks
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.Photo: Chmee2, CC BY-SA 3.0.
- Type: Locality
- Description: hillfort in Essex, England, UK
- Also known as: “Ambersbury Banks”, “Ambersbury, Amesbury”, and “Ambresbury Banks slight univallate hillfort”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Parish Church of St Mary and Copped Hall.
Copped Hall
Ruins
Photo: Acabashi, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Copped Hall, also known as Copt Hall or Copthall, is a mid-18th-century English country house in Epping Upland, Essex which has been undergoing restoration since 1999.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Theydon Bois and Great Monk Wood.
Theydon Bois
Village
Photo: Lynda Poulter, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Theydon Bois is a village and civil parish in the Epping Forest district of Essex, England. It is 1 mile south of Epping, 1 mile north-east of Loughton and 6 miles south of Harlow.
Great Monk Wood
Locality
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.
Upshire
Hamlet
Photo: John Salmon, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Upshire is a village in the civil parish of Waltham Abbey in the Epping Forest District of Essex, England. The centre of the village is on Horseshoe Hill, on which is The Horseshoe public house, and the church of St Thomas, a Grade II* listed building in Arts and Crafts style dating from 1902.
Ambresbury Banks
- Categories: hillslope fort, archaeological site, and historic site
- Location: Waltham Abbey, Epping Forest District, Essex, East of England, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
51.68273° or 51° 40′ 58″ northLongitude
0.07773° or 0° 4′ 40″ eastOpen location code
9F32M3MH+33OpenStreetMap ID
node 4461738405OpenStreetMap feature
historic=archaeological_siteOpenStreetMap feature
place=localityWikidata ID
Q4741716
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In Other Languages
“Ambresbury Banks” goes by many names.
- Latin: “Castrum de Eppynghatthe”
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