Epping Green is a village in the

civil parish In England, a civil parish is a type of administrative parish used for local government. It is a territorial designation which is the lowest tier of local government. Civil parishes can trace their origin to the ancient system of parishes, w ...

Epping Upland Epping Upland, formerly just Epping is a village and civil parish in the Epping Forest district of Essex, England.Hagger, Nicholas; ''A View of Epping Forest'', O Books (2012), p. 29. The village is situated on the B181 road, approximately ...

and

Epping Forest Epping Forest is a area of ancient woodland, and other established habitats, which straddles the border between Greater London and Essex. The main body of the forest stretches from Epping in the north, to Chingford on the edge of the Lond ...

district of

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 ...

, England, situated on the B181 road between Epping and

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 ...

. The parish of

, which stretches from the Wake Arms

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near

Upshire Upshire is a village in the civil parish of Waltham Abbey in the Epping Forest District of Essex, England. The centre of the village is on Horseshoe Hill (a minor road), on which is The Horseshoe public house, and the church of St Thomas, a Grade ...

at the south to the outskirts of Harlow at the north, takes in part of Thornwood Common at the east, and the hamlet of Rye Hill. Epping Green lies mainly within Epping Forest land although most farmland is owned by

Copped Hall Copped Hall, also known as Copt Hall or Copthall, is a mid-18th-century English country house close to Waltham Abbey, Essex, which has been undergoing restoration since 1999. Today, Copped Hall refers to the upstanding house, while Copt Hal ...

Estates and leased to the local farmers. Epping Green Travellers Friend and Cock and Magpie adjacent on the B181 road

Through the village are ancient market routes and cattle drover's lanes, which were routes from as far afield as

Norfolk Norfolk ( ) is a Ceremonial counties of England, ceremonial county in England, located in East Anglia and officially part of the East of England region. It borders Lincolnshire and The Wash to the north-west, the North Sea to the north and eas ...

. The traditional village pond was originally a blacksmith's cooling pond. Following the closure of the combined post office and village store around 1996, the closure of the Cock & Magpie public house around 2018 and the decision by the long-standing owner to put the remaining pub, The Traveller's Friend, up for sale in 2021, the village has lost its remaining commercial amenities. The 13th-century

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church of All Saints' at Epping Upland, less than to the south-east, serves Epping Green, and was the original Epping church before St John's was built. Between the 1920s and 1940s Epping Green consisted chiefly of wooden cottages built along a country road.

Education

The village has its own Church of England

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Education

Transport

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