Greensted Church

Greensted Church, in the small village of , near in , , 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.
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  • Type: Church
  • Denomination: Anglican
  • Description: church in Greensted, Essex, England, UK
  • Also known as: “Saint Andrew, Greensted Juxta Ongar”
  • Address: Church Lane, Greensted, CM5 9LD

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include Ongar railway station and Blake Hall tube station.

Railway station
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is a station on the Epping Ongar Railway heritage line, and a former London Underground station in the town of , . is situated 1 mile east of Greensted Church.

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 , and south from the village of in . is situated 1 mile northwest of Greensted Church.

Library
Photo: Nigel Cox, CC BY-SA 2.0.
is situated 1 mile east of Greensted Church.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Greensted and Chipping Ongar.

Village
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is a small village in the civil parish of , in the Epping Forest District of , England. It was formerly a separate civil parish, but was merged into Ongar in 1965.

Town
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is a market town in the parish of , in the Epping Forest District of , England. It is located 6 miles east of , 7 miles south-east of and 7 miles north-west of .

Village
is hamlet in the civil parish of the Epping Forest district, in the English county of . It is at the western end of , slightly further than 2 miles to the west of .

Greensted Church

Latitude
51.70439° or 51° 42′ 16″ north
Longitude
0.22548° or 0° 13′ 32″ east
Open location code
9F32P63G+Q5
Open­Street­Map ID
way 144445347
Open­Street­Map feature
amenity=­place_of_worship
Open­Street­Map feature
building=­yes
Open­Street­Map attribute
denomination=­anglican
Wiki­data ID
Q2294625
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In Other Languages

From Basque to Ukrainian—“Greensted Church” goes by many names.
  • Basque: “Greenstedeko eliza”
  • Chinese: “格林斯泰德教堂”
  • Dutch: “Greensted Church”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “كنيسه جرينستيد”
  • Esperanto: “Preĝejo de Greensted”
  • French: “église de Greensted”
  • French: “Église de Greensted”
  • German: “St Andrew’s Church (Greensted)”
  • German: “St Andrew’s Church”
  • Italian: “chiesa di Greensted”
  • Italian: “Chiesa di Greensted”
  • Japanese: “グリーンステッド教会”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Greensted Church”
  • Norwegian: “Greensted Church”
  • Polish: “Kościół św. Andrzeja Apostoła w Greensted”
  • Russian: “Гринстедская церковь”
  • Ukrainian: “Грінстедська церква”

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Highlights include Ongar Wood and Greensted Wood.

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