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 Greensted Church and Blake Hall tube station.
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.
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.
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
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
51.7053° or 51° 42′ 19″ northLongitude
0.2135° or 0° 12′ 49″ eastOpen location code
9F32P647+4COpenStreetMap ID
way 4849388OpenStreetMap feature
natural=wood
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Localities in the Area
Explore places such as Greensted Green and Clatterford End.
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