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Matching Tye
__NOTOC__ Matching Tye is a village which forms part of the civil parish of Matching, in the County of Essex, England. It is 2.3 miles (3.7 km) east of Harlow, 2.9 Miles (4.8 km) south-east of Sawbridgeworth and 6.3 miles (10.4 km) north-east of Epping, Essex, Epping. Other Matching parish settlements * Carter's Green * Housham Tye * Matching, Essex, Matching * Matching Green * Newman's EndTransport There is no railway station in the village, the nearest active rail link is Harlow Mill railway station, Harlow Mill, 4.2 miles from the village centre.References External links [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Matching, Essex
Matching is a village and civil parishes in England, civil parish in the Epping Forest (district), Epping Forest district of Essex, England centred in countryside east of Harlow's modern town centre and from Old Harlow/Harlow Mills area of the town. The terrain is elevated and London is centred to the south-west. History Etymology Matching's name is of Anglo-Saxon England, Saxon origin, derived from the people or tribe of Maecca (Match) who settled in an open area of pasture called an "Ing", hence 'Matching'. In the ''Domesday Book'' (1086) it was called Matcinga. Medieval Period All its Domesday manors were fertile but small and poor – the three small manors held by the Abbey of St Valery, Geoffrey de Mandeville (11th century), Geoffrey de Mandeville, and Ralph de Tony each had a single ploughteam in 1066. Matching from the mid-medieval period had four manor houses, which now stand on or near their medieval sites. Matching Hall is one of the four and one of three Grade I ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Epping Forest (district)
Epping Forest District is a local government district in Essex, England. It is named after the ancient woodland of Epping Forest, a large part of which lies within the district. The district covers northeastern parts of the urban area of London, including the suburban towns of Epping, Loughton, Waltham Abbey, Chigwell, and Buckhurst Hill, as well as rural areas beyond it. The district is situated in the west of the county, bordering north-eastern Greater London. The administrative headquarters of Epping Forest District Council are in the town of Epping. Neighbouring districts are Brentwood, Broxbourne, Chelmsford, East Hertfordshire, Enfield, Harlow, Havering, Redbridge, Uttlesford and Waltham Forest. In 2021 it had a population of 134,909. History The district was formed on 1 April 1974 under the Local Government Act 1972, covering the whole area of three former districts and most of a fourth, all of which were abolished at the same time: * Chigwell Urban District (whic ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Essex
Essex ( ) is a Ceremonial counties of England, ceremonial county in the East of England, and one of the home counties. It is bordered by Cambridgeshire and Suffolk to the north, the North Sea to the east, Kent across the Thames Estuary to the south, Greater London to the south-west, and Hertfordshire to the west. The largest settlement is Southend-on-Sea, and the county town is Chelmsford. The county has an area of and a population of 1,832,751. After Southend-on-Sea (182,305), the largest settlements are Colchester (130,245), Basildon (115,955) and Chelmsford (110,625). The south of the county is very densely populated, and the remainder, besides Colchester and Chelmsford, is largely rural. For local government purposes Essex comprises a non-metropolitan county, with twelve districts, and two unitary authority areas: Thurrock Council, Thurrock and Southend-on-Sea City Council, Southend-on-Sea. The districts of Chelmsford, Colchester and Southend have city status. The county H ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Brentwood And Ongar (UK Parliament Constituency)
Brentwood and Ongar is a constituency in Essex represented in the House of Commons of the UK Parliament since 2017 by Alex Burghart, a Conservative. He served from October 2022 to July 2024 as Parliamentary Secretary for the Cabinet Office. History The seat was created for the February 1974 general election, primarily from part of the abolished constituency of Billericay. It has always been a safe Conservative seat. It was held by Eric Pickles between the General Election in 1992 and 2017 when he stood down. The Liberal Democrats amassed their largest share of the vote in 1992 (including results for their two predecessor parties). At the 2010 election their candidate was second-placed with 13.6% of the vote, ahead of the Labour Party's candidate, but this proved the peak of their support, as they declined to fourth place in 2015 and then behind Labour in 2017 and 2019. In the 2001 election, Pickles was opposed by Martin Bell, who had represented the Tatton constituency in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
A Matthews Chapel On The Matching Green Road At Matching Tye, Essex, England
A, or a, is the first Letter (alphabet), letter and the first vowel letter of the Latin alphabet, used in the modern English alphabet, and others worldwide. Its name in English is ''English alphabet#Letter names, a'' (pronounced ), plural ''aes''. It is similar in shape to the Ancient Greek letter alpha, from which it derives. The uppercase version consists of the two slanting sides of a triangle, crossed in the middle by a horizontal bar. The lowercase version is often written in one of two forms: the double-storey and single-storey . The latter is commonly used in handwriting and fonts based on it, especially fonts intended to be read by children, and is also found in italic type. In English, ''English articles, a'' is the indefinite article, with the alternative form ''an''. Name In English, the name of the letter is the ''long A'' sound, pronounced . Its name in most other languages matches the letter's pronunciation in open syllables. History The earliest know ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Harlow
Harlow is a town and local government district located in the west of Essex, England. Founded as a Planned community, new town in 1947, it is situated on the border with Hertfordshire, and occupies a large area of land on the south bank of the upper River Stort, Stort Valley, which has been made navigable through other towns and features a canal section near its watermill. Old Harlow is a historic village founded by the early medieval age and most of its high street buildings are early Victorian and residential, mostly protected by one of the Conservation Areas in the district. In Old Harlow is a field named Harlowbury, a de-settled monastic area which has the remains of a chapel, a scheduled ancient monument. The M11 motorway passes through to the east of the town. Harlow has its own commercial and leisure economy. It is also an outer part of the London commuter belt and employment centre of the M11 corridor which includes Cambridge and London Stansted Airport to the north. A ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sawbridgeworth
Sawbridgeworth (traditionally or , now also ) is a town and civil parishes in England, civil parish in Hertfordshire, England, close to the border with Essex. It is east of Hertford and north of Epping, Essex, Epping. It is the northernmost part of the Greater London Built-up Area. History Prior to the Norman conquest of England, Norman conquest, most of the area was owned by the Anglo-Saxons, Anglo-Saxon Angmar the Staller. The Manor of "Sabrixteworde" (one of the many spellings previously associated with the town) was recorded in the Domesday Book of 1086. After the Battle of Hastings it was granted to Geoffrey de Mandeville (11th century), Geoffrey de Mandeville I by William the Conqueror. Local notables have included John Leventhorpe, an executor of both Henry IV of England, King Henry IV and Henry V of England, King Henry V's Will (law), wills, and Anne Boleyn, who was given the Pishobury, Pishiobury/Pishobury estate, located to the south of the town. The Grea ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Epping, Essex
Epping is a market town and civil parish in the Epping Forest District of Essex, England. Part of the London metropolitan area, metropolitan and Urban area, urban area of London, it is 17 miles (27 km) northeast of Charing Cross. It is surrounded by the northern end of Epping Forest, and on a ridge of land between the River Roding and River Lea valleys. Epping is the terminus for London Underground's Central line (London Underground), Central line. The town has a number of historic Grade I and II* and Grade II listed buildings. The weekly market, which dates to 1253, is held each Monday. In 2001 the parish had a population of 11,047 which increased to 11,461 at the 2011 Census. Epping became Twin towns and sister cities, twinned with the German town of Eppingen in north-west Baden-Württemberg in 1981. History "Epinga", a small community of a few scattered farms and a chapel on the edge of the forest, is mentioned in the ''Domesday Book'' of 1086. However, the settlement refe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Housham Tye
Housham Tye is a hamlet in the civil parish of Matching, and the Epping Forest district of Essex, England. The hamlet is south-west from Matching village and the parish church of St Mary, and south-west from the village of Matching Tye, separated by the woodland of Matching Park. Conjoined to Housham Tye is the hamlet of Carter's Green. The M11 motorway is one mile to the west, over which is the town of Harlow. Junction 7 of the M11 is south-west, through which runs the A414 road to the county town of Chelmsford to the east. History A ''Tye'' is an area of outlying roadside common land or green, alternatively a settlement surrounding common land or green."Matching" '' A History of the County of Essex: Volume 8.'' ed. W. R. Powell / Beryl A. Board, |
Matching Green
Matching Green is a village and the largest settlement in the civil parish of Matching, in Essex, England. It is east of Harlow, north-west of Chipping Ongar and south-east of Sawbridgeworth. Matching Green has one of the largest village greens in Essex. The green is almost triangular in shape, covers 5.6 hectares (13.8 acres), contains the local cricket field, and is edged by mainly detached cottages and houses dating from the 14th to 19th century, twenty-eight of which are listed buildings. The village public house is The Chequers at the western edge of the green. The site of the former RAF Matching lies to the east of village. Matching parish settlements * Carter's Green * Housham Tye * Matching * Matching Green * Matching Tye __NOTOC__ Matching Tye is a village which forms part of the civil parish of Matching, in the County of Essex, England. It is 2.3 miles (3.7 km) east of Harlow, 2.9 Miles (4.8 km) south-east of Sawbridgeworth and 6.3 miles (10. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Newman's End
__NOTOC__ Newman's End is a hamlet in the civil parish of Matching, and the Epping Forest district of Essex, England. The hamlet, at the north of the parish, is less than north-west from Matching village and the parish church of St Mary, and 1 mile south-east from the village of Sheering, The M11 motorway is 1 mile to the west, with Junction 7 the closest access to the south-west. History At the then Smallway's Farm in the mid-1700s was a malt house, by at latest 1843 using grain from a field to the west of the farm. Parsonage Farm, still existing at the centre of the hamlet, of in 1745 and in 1843, was glebe land in the advowson of the trustees of Felsted School, until, in 1876, the rectory was bought by Henry Selwin-Ibbetson, 1st Baron Rookwood of Down Hall in the then Hatfield Broad Oak, now Hatfield Heath parish."Matching"< ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Harlow Mill Railway Station
Harlow Mill railway station is on the West Anglia Main Line serving the eastern part of Harlow in Essex, England. It is down the line from London Liverpool Street and is situated between and stations. Its three-letter station code is HWM. The station and all trains serving it are operated by Greater Anglia. History The station was opened in 1842 as Harlow, on the Northern and Eastern Railway's line between London and Bishop's Stortford. It served the village of the same name, located on the London to Cambridge toll road. In the late 1940s, as the new town of Harlow was being built, the original village of Harlow was named Old Harlow Old Harlow is the old town area of Harlow, in Essex, England. It was the historical town centre prior to Harlow being designated a new town in 1947 during the new towns in the United Kingdom movement. Old Harlow is situated in the north-ea ... and incorporated as a district in the new town. The station was renamed Harlow Mill on 13 Ju ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
