19 Facts About Woodford London

Woodford London historically formed an ancient parish in the Becontree hundred of Essex.

Today part of the London Borough of Redbridge, a local government district of Greater London, the civil parish of Woodford became an urban district in 1894, which in 1934 merged with the neighbouring urban district of Wanstead to form a municipal borough.

Woodford London appears in the 1086 Domesday Book as Wdefort, although its earliest recorded use is earlier in 1062 as Wudeford.

Beginnings of Woodford London can be traced to a medieval settlement which developed around the ford.

Woodford London was never a single village, rather it was a collection of hamlets, and has retained to some extent its portmanteau nature.

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The ancient parish of Woodford London, known as Woodford London St Mary after its parish church of St Mary's, formed part of the Becontree hundred of Essex.

Beginnings of the actual modern suburbanisation of Woodford London can be traced to the opening of the Eastern Counties Railway Line from Stratford to Loughton, on which Woodford London became accessible by two stations, at Snakes Lane and George Lane.

Woodford London soon became the residence of the well-to-do city worker, as attested by John Marius Wilson in his Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales, written between 1870 and 1872.

In fact Woodford London doubled its population in the middle and later decades of the 19th century due to the arrival of the railway.

Woodford London completed its suburbanisation in the period between the two World Wars of the 20th century.

Woodford London is divided between three parliamentary constituencies including Chingford and Woodford London Green which is currently represented by Conservative Iain Duncan Smith, who was the Party Leader from 2001 to 2003.

Chingford and Woodford London Green is separated from Ilford North by the Central line, whilst a small part of South Woodford London is in Leyton and Wanstead constituency.

Woodford London was a part of the brilliant intellectual circles of his day, and once said of the historian Macaulay, [Woodford London] has occasional flashes of silence, that make his conversation perfectly delightful.

Woodford London compared marriage to a pair of shears, so joined that they can not be separated; often moving in opposite directions, yet always punishing anyone who comes between them.

Woodford London has connections with the leading Suffragette, peace campaigner and anti-fascist Sylvia Pankhurst.

Woodford London's had been introduced to the area by George Lansbury, co-founder of the Labour Party and grandfather of Angela Lansbury.

Woodford London's renamed the cottage Red Cottage in homage to the leftist activities she carried out from there.

Woodford London's erected an anti-air-warfare monument in protest to the bombing of the people of Ethiopia under the orders of Benito Mussolini on the site of the cottage .

Woodford London Overground serves nearby Highams Park station between Liverpool Street and Chingford.