Jacks Hatch (also spelt Jack's Hatch), is a hamlet in the
Epping Upland civil parish of the
Epping Forest district of
Essex, England.
Jacks Hatch is north-west from the parish village of Epping Upland, south-southwest from the town centre of
Harlow
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and west from the city and
county town
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of
Chelmsford. It is on the B181
Epping road between
Epping Green village at the south, and Broadley Common in
Roydon at the north-west, and centred on the junction with Parsloe Road running north-east to the almost conjoined Kingsmoor area of southern Harlow. Junction 7 of the
M11 motorway
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is to the east.
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The Hamlet may have been referenced as ''Cerlen hacce'' in the confirmatory charter of
Edward the Confessor
Edward the Confessor ; la, Eduardus Confessor , ; ( 1003 – 5 January 1066) was one of the last Anglo-Saxon English kings. Usually considered the last king of the House of Wessex, he ruled from 1042 to 1066.
Edward was the son of Æth ...
to the church of
Waltham Holy Cross
Waltham Abbey is a civil parish in Epping Forest District in Essex, England. Located approximately north-northeast of central London and adjacent to the Greater London boundary, it is a partly urbanised parish with large sections of open land ...
in 1062.
While the Hamlet lies within the civil parish of
Epping Upland, it lies within the ecclesiastical parishes of
Nazeing and
Great Parndon
Great Parndon is an area and former civil parish in Essex, England, that has been absorbed by the new town of Harlow and is now an electoral ward.
It had a recorded population of 18 people in 1086, rising to 41 by 1524–25. In 1622, there were ...
- the boundary between them lying along the Epping Green Road (B181).
The hamlet and its immediate surrounding area includes three farms. There are two small retail and light industrial areas on Parslow Road which include a car sales and a furniture sales outlet, and a hair salon. Detached and semidetached houses line Parsloe Road, and the Epping Road chiefly at its west side. At the junction is a fuel station which includes an automotive repair centre.
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The 1933 '' Kelly's Directory'' of Essex listed a motor engineers company at Jacks Hatch.][''Kelly's Directory of Essex'' 1933, p.218]
On Parsloe Road at Jacks Hatch is the Grade II listed Richmonds Farmhouse, a rendered timber-framed T-plan house with a 17th-century gable, dating at least from the early 16th century.
In the 2010s Epping Upland Parish Council began working towards a Neighbourhood Plan for the protection of parish character which, if approved, would become part of planning policy under an Epping Forest District Council Local Plan. The area of Jacks Hatch was to be removed from the protection of this Local Plan, allowing further southward expansion of the Harlow conurbation. A possible greater expansion of Harlow attached development south to the edge of Epping Upland village, and in green belt, was being considered through the Epping Forest District Council Local Plan, but opposed by the Parish Council for its Neighbourhood Plan."Suggested area for removal from the Neighbourhood Plan Area designation"
map, Epping Forest District Council. Retrieved 20 January 2019
Jacks Hatch lies in the
UK parliamentary constituency of Epping Forest. The sitting MP since 1997 has been
Eleanor Laing.
References
External links
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Epping Upland Parish Council
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Hamlets in Essex
Epping Forest District