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Шаблон:Use dmy dates Шаблон:Use British English Шаблон:Infobox UK place Epping Upland is a village and civil parish in the Epping Forest district of Essex, England.[1]

The village is situated on the B181 road, approximately Шаблон:Convert south of the town of Harlow, and Шаблон:Convert north-west of the town of Epping and the M11 motorway.

Epping Upland parish church is dedicated to All Saints, with the Epping Upland ecclesiastical parish part of the Diocese of Chelmsford.[2][3] The church dates to the 13th century and is Grade II* listed.[2]

Until the Dissolution of the Monasteries, All Saints was under the jurisdiction of Waltham Abbey. In the first half of the 19th century part of today's town of Epping was within the civil parish of Epping Upland and was part of the ecclesiastical parish centred on All Saints'. The south-eastern urban and market part of Epping Upland joined the hamlet of Epping Street to become the town of Epping.[4][5][6] In 1831 the village of Epping Upland had a population of 427 within 83 houses. At the time, eighty per cent of the village population, and forty per cent of the parish, were employed in agriculture.[7][8]

Файл:Epping Upland - Upland Road looking east towards Takeleys.jpg
Upland Road towards Takeleys

Among further listed Epping Upland village buildings is Takeleys, a Grade II timber-framed house, as part of a moated site, which dates to the 16th century (Pevsner: early 17th), with 18th-century alterations. It contains an "elaborately carved" chimney piece and, in an upper room, 17th-century brown and black wall paintings in floral style on plasterwork.[9][10]

On 8 September 1944, during the Second World War, the first German V-2 rocket to be launched landed at Epping Upland.[11]

The local primary school is Epping Upland C of E Primary School.

Epping Upland has bus services to Epping and Harlow. Шаблон:Clear left

Civil parish

Epping Upland civil parish stretches from the southern outskirts of Harlow in the north to the M25 motorway in the south, a distance of approximately Шаблон:Convert, and a distance of 3 miles west of Thornwood Common in the east. The village of Epping Green and the hamlets of Jacks Hatch and Rye Hill are situated just inside the northern edge of the civil parish.

In 2001 the population of Epping Upland Parish was 790,[12] increasing to 831 at the 2011 Census.[13]

The parish includes the earthwork remains of the scheduled Ambresbury Banks, an Iron Age hill fort.[1] Шаблон:Clear left

References

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External links

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  1. 1,0 1,1 Hagger, Nicholas; A View of Epping Forest, O Books (2012), p. 29. Шаблон:ISBN
  2. 2,0 2,1 Шаблон:NHLE
  3. Epping Upland: "All Saints, Epping Upland", Diocese of Chelmsford
  4. White, William; White's Directory of Essex 1848
  5. Lewis, Samuel (1840), A Topographical Dictionary of England: Comprising the Several Counties, Cities, Boroughs, Corporate & Market Towns..., p. 160. Reprint Nabu Press (2014). Шаблон:ISBN
  6. Gorton, John; A Topographical Dictionary of Great Britain and Ireland; Compiled from Local Information, and the Most Recent and Official Authorities (1833), p. 741. Reprint Nabu Press (2011). Шаблон:ISBN
  7. The Penny Cyclopædia of The Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge (1831) Vols 9-10, p. 21. Reprint Ulan Press (2012)
  8. Oxley, James Edwin (1965); Reformation in Essex to the Death of Mary, Manchester University Press, p. 159. Шаблон:ISBN
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  10. Pevsner, Nikolaus; Radcliffe, Enid; Essex (The Buildings of England), Penguin Books (1974) p. 175. Шаблон:ISBN
  11. "2754 people Killed in Enemy's Rocket Bomb Attacks", The Glasgow Herald, 27 April 1945, p. 4. Retrieved 9 March 2015
  12. "Epping Upland CP (Parish)", Office for National Statistics
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