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The town has a largely suburban feel, containing open grasslands such as Wanstead Flats, and the woodland of Wanstead Park (part of Epping Forest). Wanstead Flats is the southern-most portion of Epping Forest in east London. Wanstead Park a grade II listed park with an area of about 140 acres (57 hectares located in Wanstead, in the London Borough of Redbridge. Epping Forest is an area of ancient Woodland in south-east England, straddling the border between north-east Greater London and Essex. The park, with artificial lakes, was originally part of the estate of a large stately home Wanstead House, one of the finest Palladian mansions in Britain, from its size and splendour nicknamed the English Versailles, and the architectural inspiration for Mansion House, London. Wanstead Park a grade II listed park with an area of about 140 acres (57 hectares located in Wanstead, in the London Borough of Redbridge. PLEASE DO NOT ADD AN INFO BOX TO THIS PAGE --> Palladian architecture is a European style of Architecture derived from the designs of the Italian Versailles (vɛʀsaj in French) formerly de facto capital of the kingdom of France, is now a wealthy suburb of Paris and is still an important Mansion House is the Official residence of the Lord Mayor of the City of London in London, England. It was demolished after the bankruptcy of the owner, William Wellesley-Long, in 1824. It is also home to Wanstead Golf club, which has hosted many of the major events in the Essex County calendar. A notable landmark towards the northern edge of Wanstead is the former Wanstead Hospital building, now a housing complex. Wanstead Hospital was a former NHS hospital situated on Hermon Hill in Snaresbrook, not far from Wanstead in north-east London.
Wanstead High Street is distinctive because of its many independent retailers, attracting shoppers from a wide area. Public houses include The George (which began life as the George and Dragon in the 18th century), The Cuckfield, Russells, and Bar Room Bar ("BRB").
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History
The name Wanstead is first recorded about 1050.
Wanstead was a part of Essex until 1965, when Greater London was created. Essex is a county in the East of England. The County town is Chelmsford, and the highest point of the county is Chrishall Common Greater London is the top-level administrative subdivision covering London, England.
The George Public House
Although The George is not a particularly old building, there has been a pub on that site for hundreds of years. Set in to the side of the pub is a plaque dating from 1752 which was formerly part of an older pub building. The plaque is inscribed with the eccentrically spelled verse:
- In Memory of
- Ye Cherry Pey
- As cost 1/2 a Guiney
- Ye 17 of July
- That day we had good cheer
- I hope to so do maney a Year
- R C 1752 D Jerry[1]
There are various local legends explaining this curious plaque, including a tale of the theft of a cherry pie by local workmen who were caught and fined half a guinea (52. Cherry pie is a Pie baked with a Cherry filling Morello cherries are often used in cherry pies The guinea coin of 1663 was the first English machine-struck Gold coin. 5p). However the most likely explanantion is that it was placed there by the landlord of 1752, David Jersey (corrupted by centuries of repainting and re-cutting the inscription to D Jerry on the plaque), commemorating a feast which included a huge cherry pie. Monstrous pies were a feature of 18th-century Essex rural festivals; the Tollesbury Gooseberry Pie festival is still in existence, and other inns around the edge of Epping Forest were famed for pies (rabbit pie at The Reindeer, Loughton, now Warren House, and pigeon pie at The King's Head, Chigwell). Loughton (ˈlaʊtən or lau-ton) is a town and Civil parish in the Epping Forest district of Essex. Chigwell is a Civil parish and town in the Epping Forest district of Essex. Wanstead was well-known for its cherry orchards as late as the 1830s, when they were mentioned by poet Thomas Hood, who lived in Wanstead 1832-5. Thomas Hood ( 23 May 1799 &ndash 3 May 1845) was a British Humorist and Poet.
The M11/M12A Link Road was built in the 1990s. An area beside the section from Blake Hall Road to Selsdon Road was in 2008 preserved by local residents as a Wild-Flower Meadow with a year-round display of wild and naturalised plants, shrubs and trees; starting in spring with oxlip (P. elatoir), cowslip (Primula veris), primrose (P. vulgaris), and meadow buttercup (Ranunculus acris), followed by many species including the grass vetchling (Lathyrus nissolia). Primula veris ( Cowslip; Syn Primula officinalis Hill) is a Flowering plant in the Genus Primula Ranunculus acris ( Meadow buttercup Tall buttercup) is one of the more common Buttercups across Europe and temperate Eurasia Lathyrus nissolia or Grass Vetchling is a plant species of the genus Lathyrus. The meadow is listed as one of the main Primula species meadows in Greater London. The fauna of the area includes birds, fox, Muntjac deer, and squirrel.
Education
Wanstead is home to a large comprehensive school, Wanstead High School. There are six primary schools in Wanstead: Our Lady of Lourdes, Aldersbrook, Wanstead Church School, Nightingale, Snaresbrook and St. Joseph's which is an all-girls' private school.
Transport and locale
Nearest places
- Snaresbrook
- Redbridge
- South Woodford
- Walthamstow
- Leyton
- Manor Park
- Leytonstone
Nearest tube stations
Nearest railway stations
- Manor Park railway station
- Leytonstone High Road railway station
- Wanstead Park railway station (Despite its name, this is not in Wanstead or near Wanstead Park. Snaresbrook is an area of north-east London, mostly in the London Borough of Redbridge. Redbridge is a place in the London Borough of Redbridge. It is home to Redbridge Institute of Adult Education and Redbridge Football Club. This article is about a town For the album by East 17 see Walthamstow (album. Leyton is an area of East London and part of the London Borough of Waltham Forest. Manor Park is the name of an area in the London Borough of Newham, as well as of the local railway station and Cemetery. Leytonstone is an area of East London and part of the London Borough of Waltham Forest. Leytonstone tube station is on the Central Line of the London Underground, on the boundary of Zones 3 and 4 Redbridge tube station is a London Underground station in Redbridge, on the Hainault Loop of the Central line, in Zone 4. Snaresbrook station is a London Underground station on the Central Line, located in Snaresbrook. Wanstead tube station is a London Underground station in Wanstead, on the Hainault loop of the Central Line. Manor Park railway station (opened 6 January 1873) is a Railway station in Manor Park in the London Borough of Newham in East Leytonstone High Road railway station is a train station in Leytonstone, London in the London Borough of Waltham Forest, on the Gospel Oak to Wanstead Park is a Railway station in Forest Gate, London. It is on the Gospel Oak to Barking line in Zone 3 between Leytonstone High Road Wanstead Park a grade II listed park with an area of about 140 acres (57 hectares located in Wanstead, in the London Borough of Redbridge. It is in Forest Gate near Wanstead Flats)
Notable residents
- Jessie Wallace, Actress. Forest Gate is a Residential area in the London Borough of Newham. Wanstead Flats is the southern-most portion of Epping Forest in east London. Jessie Wallace (born Karen Jane Wallace on September 25, 1971 in Enfield, Greater London) is an English Actress. Lived in Wanstead until late 2006.
- Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester and favourite of Elizabeth I, had a house here, in which he died, much to Elizabeth's intense sorrow, on 4th September 1588, three days before the Queen's 55th birthday. Robert Dudley may refer to Robert Dudley 1st Earl of Leicester, favourite of Queen Elizabeth I of England Robert Dudley styled Earl of Warwick Events 476 - Romulus Augustus, last emperor of the Western Roman Empire, is deposed when Odoacer proclaims himself
References
- ^ Plaque details accessed 24 Apr 2007
- Pewsey, S (2005), The Wanstead Cherry Pie Stone, Wanstead Historical Society
See also
External links
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