23 Facts About Loughton Essex

Parish of Loughton covers part of Epping Forest, in 1996 some parts of the south of the old parish were transferred to Buckhurst Hill parish, and other small portions to Chigwell and Theydon Bois.

Loughton Essex has three conservation areas and there are 56 listed buildings in the town, together with a further 50 that are locally listed.

The most significant of the great houses of this period, built as country retreats for wealthy City merchants and courtiers, was Loughton Essex Hall, owned by Mary Tudor two months before she became Queen Mary of England in 1553, and later by the Wroth family from 1578 to 1738.

Some Loughton Essex villagers defied landowners to practice their ancient right to lop wood—a series of court cases, including one brought by the Loughton Essex labourer Thomas Willingale, was needed before the City of London Corporation took legal action against the landowners' enclosures, resulting in the Epping Forest Act of 1878 which preserved the forest for use by the public.

Much of the housing in Loughton Essex was built in the Victorian and Edwardian eras, with significant expansion in the 1930s.

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Loughton Essex was a fashionable place for artistic and scientific residents in Victorian and Edwardian times, and a number of prominent residents were renowned socialists, nonconformists, and social reformers.

In 2002 Loughton featured in the ITV1 programme Essex Wives, a documentary series about the lives of some of the nouveau riche who have resided in the Essex satellite towns of London since the 1980s.

In 2016, Loughton Essex was assessed as the third best ethnically integrated town in the country, as reported by the local newspaper.

Loughton Essex is bounded by Epping Forest to the west and the Roding river valley to the east.

At district council level, Loughton Essex is represented by two councillors from each of the 7 wards, elected for a four-year term.

Loughton Essex has been part of the Epping Forest parliamentary constituency since its creation in 1974.

Loughton Essex's son, Giles was born on 1953, and an actor, was born there.

Loughton Essex is home to the National Jazz Archive, which hosts occasional jazz performances.

Loughton Essex boasts a few rock and pop music connections; Mark Knopfler of Dire Straits was a lecturer at Loughton Essex College, and the Genesis song "The Battle of Epping Forest" is based on an actual event when rival East End gangs fought a turf war in the forest.

The Wake Arms public house, which was about 50 yards north of the Loughton Essex boundary in Waltham Abbey on a roundabout, was a rock music venue from 1968 to 1973, hosting bands such as Black Sabbath, Deep Purple, Genesis, Pretty Things, Status Quo, Uriah Heep, and Van der Graaf Generator.

Loughton Essex Cinema had a resident ladies' band during the 1930s.

Loughton Essex has its own music academy the 'Loughton Essex Music Academy' founded in 2001.

Several films have been set in the Loughton Essex area, including the 2001 TV movie Hot Money, based on real events at Loughton Essex's Bank of England printing works.

Loughton Essex FC, founded in 1965, dropped out of the Hertfordshire Senior County League in 2007 and now plays in the Bishops Stortford, Stansted and District League and has youth teams in the Echo Junior League and the Barking Youth League.

Loughton Essex is served by both Loughton Essex tube station and, further north-east, Debden tube station, both served by the Central line of the London Underground since 1949.

The current Loughton Essex station was opened in 1940, but both the line and stations existed before that; the railway line dates back to 22 August 1856, when the branch from Stratford was opened by the Eastern Counties Railway.

Bus routes in Loughton are either London Buses routes, commercial routes or Essex County Council contract routes.

In 2006, schools in Loughton Essex had approximately 2330 places in post-16 education, approximately 1200 places in Key Stage 4, approx.