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Fiddlers Hamlet is a hamlet 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 ...
of Epping, within the
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of
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, England, and is south-east from the
market town A market town is a settlement most common in Europe that obtained by custom or royal charter, in the Middle Ages, a market right, which allowed it to host a regular market; this distinguished it from a village or city. In Britain, small rura ...
of Epping, separated by farm and fields. The
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runs to the east, with Junction 7 for
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being to the north. The hamlet is at the junction of Stewards Green Road where it becomes Mount Road (to Theydon Mount), and Coopersale Street (road) which runs due north to the hamlet of Coopersale Street. The village of Coopersale is less than 1 mile to the north. Fiddlers Hamlet takes its name from the Merry Fiddlers Inn, and has been a settlement since at least the 17th century. It was previously in the parish of
Theydon Garnon Theydon Garnon is a village and civil parish in the Epping Forest district, in the county of Essex, England. The parish also includes the hamlet of Hobbs Cross. History Also recorded as Thoydon Garnon and Coopersale, "Theydon" is thought to m ...
. Fiddlers Hamlet was part of the Epping Union,
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provision set up under the
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. In the 19th century the hamlet was seen as within the identifiable Coopersale northern district of Theydon Garnon parish, which itself had become a separate
ecclesiastical parish A parish is a territorial entity in many Christianity, Christian denominations, constituting a division within a diocese. A parish is under the pastoral care and clerical jurisdiction of a priest#Christianity, priest, often termed a parish pries ...
in 1852 as part of the
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ery of
Chigwell Chigwell is a town and civil parish in the Epping Forest District of Essex, England. It is part of the urban and metropolitan area of London, and is adjacent to the northern boundary of Greater London. It is on the Central line of the Londo ...
. In 1891 the northwestern parts of Theydon Garnon parish including Fiddlers Hamlet, Coopersale Street, and Coopersale were alienated to become part of Epping Urban District (from 1974
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 ...
).'Theydon Garnon: Introduction'
in ''A History of the County of Essex'' Volume 4, Ongar Hundred, ed. W R Powell (London, 1956), pp. 258-262. ''
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''. Retrieved 31 July 2018
Trade diectories: ''Post Office Directory of Essex, Herts, Kent, Middlesex, Surrey and Sussex'' (1855) p.149 / ''Post Office Directory of Essex'' (1874) p.225 / ''
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'' of Essex (1882) p.295; (1894) pp. 340, 341; (1902) p.153 / ''Kellys Directory of Essex, Hertfordshire and Middlesex'' (1914) p.192 / ''Kelly's Directory of Essex'' 1933, pp.187, 188
The local school is Coopersale and Theydon Garnon Church of England Primary School in Coopersale. The previous school at Fiddlers Hamlet was that for Theydon Garnon parish; the old school house still exists. The Merry Fiddlers
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is at the centre of the hamlet, and is listed as the Merry Fiddlers in 19th- and early 20th-century trade directories, and as being the location of the hamlet post box. In the late 19th century, letters to the hamlet were delivered from Epping by foot. There are six Grade II
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s in Fiddlers Hamlet. Masons Bridge Farmhouse is at the south of the hamlet below the Merry Fiddlers, and is a
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,
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and pargetted building dating probably to the 15th century. Ancillary buildings to the farmhouse are a timber-framed and
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ed outbuilding dating to the 17th or 18th century, and a 17th-century timber-framed barn which is partly plastered and partly weatherboarded. On Home Farm at the north of the hamlet on Coopersale Street road are three listed farm buildings: a timber-framed and weatherboarded barn with a half-hipped tiled roof which dates to the mid-16th-century; an early 19th-century timber-framed and weatherboarded granary; and a courtyard farm building dating to the 16th century, of previously indeterminate use, timber-framed and weatherboarded, with a
hipped roof A hip roof, hip-roof or hipped roof, is a type of roof where all sides slope downward to the walls, usually with a fairly gentle slope, with variants including tented roofs and others. Thus, a hipped roof has no gables or other vertical sides ...
. A now nonexistent timber-framed house called Gardners, recorded extant in 1956 and south-west from the hamlet, part dated to the 15th century, with a 16th-century roof, a 17th-century staircase and 16th-century panelling.


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