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Station Road, Chingford, London. E4. c.1905.

Chingford seems to have been settled in late Saxon times, although it was not till the Domesday survey of 1086 that we have real evidence of its existence. There were perhaps some 200 people mostly serving the two Manors, St Pauls and Robert Gurnons and they subsisted by a simple form of agriculture. The community continued under the manorial system until its final demise in the nineteenth century, being little more than a small village until after the railway came in 1873. This brought many visitors from the East End of London in order to enjoy the delights of Epping Forest on our northern borders, followed by those moving to the town where commuting to the city became easy. From that time on the pace of change in Chingford accelerated; the lands and the farms of the old manors were sold off for housing and shops leaving only a few green spaces, Larkswood and Ridgeway park being about the largest.

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