Lambourne
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| Lambourne | |
  Lambourne shown within Essex |
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| Population | 1828 |
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| OS grid reference | |
| Parish | Lambourne |
| District | Epping Forest |
| Shire county | Essex |
| Region | East |
| Constituent country | England |
| Sovereign state | United Kingdom |
| Post town | ROMFORD |
| Postcode district | RM4 |
| Dialling code | 020 |
| 01992 | |
| Police | Essex |
| Fire | Essex |
| Ambulance | East of England |
| European Parliament | East of England |
| UK Parliament | Brentwood and Ongar |
| List of places: UK • England • Essex | |
Lambourne is a civil parish in the Epping Forest district of Essex. It is located approximately 7 km (4.5 miles) S of Epping and 8 km (5 miles) NW of Romford and is situated entirely within the M25. It covers an area of 1048 hectares and had a population of 1828 in 2001[1]
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[edit] Geography
The parish is mostly rural and agricultural, and lies in the valley of the River Roding which forms the northern boundary of the parish. The parish is mostly hilly, rising to above 100 metres in its centre.
There is no actual village called Lambourne, however the principal settlement is the village of Abridge in the far north west of the parish, with the other main concentration of houses at the hamlet of Lambourne End to the south. A scattering of farms and houses is found throughout the rest of the parish.
Stapleford Aerodrome is located in the east of the parish. Another aviation connection is its status as the location of LAM [2], a VOR navigational beacon which anchors the North East (NE) Arrival Stack for London Heathrow Airport (ICAO: EGLL / IATA: LHR), which along with Biggin Hill, Kent (BIG - SE Arrivals), Bovingdon, Hertfordshire (BNN - NW Arrivals) and Ockham, Surrey (OCK - SW Arrivals) are London's main holds.
[edit] History
Like much of the neighbouring area, Lambourne was thickly wooded in the Middle Ages with forest gradually being cleared for agriculture. A few remnants of the historic Hainault Forest are found in the southern fringe of the parish, and now form part of a country park.
Its population was 505 in 1801 rising to 904 by 1841, remaining at about that level for the next century.[3]
Historically Lambourne was included in the hundred of Ongar. It formed part of the Epping and Ongar Rural District from 1894 until that authority was absorbed into Epping Forest District in 1974.
[edit] Places of Interest
The mediaeval parish church of St Mary is in an isolated location next to the Hall, as is typical for Essex, rather than near a centre of population. It has an unusual Georgian internal remodelling.[4]
Hainault Forest Country Park, managed by the Woodland Trust.
[edit] References
- ^ .Epping Forest District Council – Lambourne Parish Profile
- ^ LAM VOR
- ^ Lambourne: Introduction, A History of the County of Essex: Volume 4: Ongar Hundred (1956), pp. 72-6. URL: http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.asp?compid=15567. Date accessed: 20 August 2007.
- ^ Jenkins, Simon (1999) England's Thousand Best Churches Allen Lane, ISBN 0-7139-9281-6
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