'Epping' is a market town and civil parish in the Epping Forest district of the county of Essex in England.
Epping is widely known in Germany for being the home of Peter, David, Betty and Helga, featured in many textbooks used to teach English to German children. It is twinned with the German town of Eppingen in northwest Baden-Württemberg. Although the once-famous Epping Butter, which was highly sought after in the 18th and 19th centuries, is no longer made, the equally well-known Epping sausages are still manufactured by Church's Butchers who have been trading on the same site since 1888.

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Geography

Transport

Bus

Train

Government

Schools

References

External links

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Geography

Epping lies about 17 miles north-east of the centre of London towards the northern end of Epping Forest on a ridge of land between the River Roding and River Lea valleys. The town had just over 11,000 inhabitants in 2001. [2]
Most of the population live in the built up area centred on the main road (B1393) and station. About a thousand people live in the large hamlet (or small village) of Coopersale which, while physically separated from Epping by forest land, is still part of the civil parish. A few dozen households make up the hamlets of Coopersale Street and Fiddlers Hamlet. Much of the eastern part of the present parish was until 1895 in the parish of Theydon Garnon.
It lies north of the M11/M25 junction at Theydon Garnon and is near to M25 junction 26 (Waltham Abbey, Essex) and M11 junction 7 (Harlow). Epping Town F.C. were the local side until they became defunct in 1984.

Transport

Epping is served by a number of bus routes, serving many surrounding towns and villages including Harlow, Thornwood Common, Abridge and Romford. The number 620 bus, operated by First Group, travels daily from Epping to the Anglo European School, Ingatestone.
Epping is served by a tube station, the eastern terminus of the Central Line of the London Underground. The Central Line now terminates at Epping, but prior to this, it used to serve stations at North Weald, Blake Hall & Ongar. The station has a car park, a toilet, a ticket machine as well as seats for sitting outside the station when waiting for a bus.

Bus

{| class="wikitable"
|'Route Number'
|'Route'
|-
|7
|Ivy Chimneys to Chelmsford
|-
|200/201
|Buckhurst Hill to Harlow/Ongar via Epping
|-
|203
|Debden to Harlow via Theydon Bois
|-
|213
|Epping to Waltham Cross via Upshire
|-
|333
|Epping to Stansted Airport via Harlow
|-
|381/382
|Toot Hill to Harlow via Epping Green
|-
|500
|Harlow to Romford via Epping
|-
|501
|Old Harlow to Brentwood via Ongar
|-
|502
|Epping to Ongar
|-
|523
|Loughton to North Weald via Waltham Abbey
|-
|541
|Buckhurst Hill to Epping
|-
|620
|Epping to Ingatestone
|-
|H1
|Loughton to Harlow

Train

{| class="wikitable"
|'Service'
|'Route'
|-
|Central Line
|Epping to West Ruislip via Central London
|-
|Central Line
|Epping to Ealing Broadway via Central London

Government

Epping is part of the Epping Forest parliamentary constituency, represented by Conservative front bench spokesperson Eleanor Laing. From 1924 to 1945, the old Essex Epping division (which included Woodford, Chingford, Harlow and Loughton as well as Epping) was represented by Winston Churchill. It now sits in the Epping and Theydon Bois division of Essex County Council. The town is divided into two district council wards. Epping Hemnall encompasses most of the town south-east of Epping High Street (B1393) including Ivy Chimneys, Fiddlers Hamlet and Coopersale. The rest of Epping lies in Epping Lindsey and Thornwood ward, as does Thornwood in the adjacent parish of North Weald Bassett. Both wards elect three councillors each.
As well as the county and district councils Epping has a town council consisting of 12 councillors, six each elected from Epping Hemnall and Epping Lindsey wards.

Schools

★ St John's School, the only secondary school in Epping, is now designated as a specialist Engineering College. The school has an active charity fundraising group led by a Student Executive team. In 2006 two students were awarded the Rotary Prize for 'Service to School' by the local Epping Rotary Club.

References

★ Key Facts: 2001 Census, Epping Forest District Council, , , , 2005,

★ Epping Town Guide, , , , Plus Publishing Services (on behalf of Epping Town Council, 2002,

★ Churchill, , , Jenkins, Macmillan, 2001, ISBN 0-330-48805-8

★ Parish Profile: Epping - information about Epping from the 2001 census (PDF file)

External links

★ Epping Town Council

★ Epping Forest District Council

★ Essex County Council

★ Royal British Legion, Epping and District branch

★ Epping Forest - information about the forest, owned and managed by the Corporation of London

★ Epping Weather Weather records from an Epping Weather station

★ Epping - White's Directory of Essex, 1848

★ Epping in Google maps

★ Epping to Ongar tube line

Other Links

★ Epping Forest Pipe Band

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