Greensted Wood

Greensted Wood is a forest in Ongar, Epping Forest District, England. Greensted Wood is situated nearby to the village Greensted Green, as well as near the hamlet Clatterford End.

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, 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.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Chipping Ongar and North Weald Bassett.

Chipping Ongar

Town

Photo: John Winfield, CC BY-SA 2.0.

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

North Weald Bassett

Village

Photo: Lynda Poulter, CC BY-SA 2.0.

North Weald Bassett, or simply North Weald, is a village and civil parish in the Epping Forest district of Essex, England. At the 2021 census the parish had a population of 6,448 and the built up area had a population of 4,348.

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.

Greensted Wood

Type: Forest
Location: Ongar, Epping Forest District, Essex, East of England, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude

51.7053° or 51° 42′ 19″ north

Longitude

0.2135° or 0° 12′ 49″ east

Open location code

9F32P647+4C

OpenStreetMap ID

way 4849388

OpenStreetMap feature

natural=wood

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Localities in the Area

Explore places such as Greensted Green and Clatterford End.

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