Woodford Green
Woodford Green is an affluent district of north-east London, England. Historically part of Essex, it lies mainly within the London Borough of Redbridge, with a small part in the London Borough of Waltham Forest.
Woodford Green adjoins South Woodford to the south, Woodford Bridge to the east, Buckhurst Hill to the north and Highams Park to the west. Epping Forest is nearby, as are the areas of Walthamstow and Chigwell and the major retail hubs of Ilford and Stratford.
Politics
Woodford Green is part of the Parliamentary Constituency of Chingford and Woodford Green, represented since its creation in 1997 by Iain Duncan Smith, leader of the Conservative Party from 2001 to 2003. He was Secretary of State for Work and Pensions from 2010 to 2016. Duncan Smith is a successor of Sir Winston Churchill, who was also MP for this area and is commemorated by a statue on Woodford Green erected in 1959. It is one of very few statues sometimes, such as in local public transport, named a memorial yet erected in the subject's lifetime.In the 1920s and 1930s, Clement Attlee, later Labour Prime Minister from 1945 to 1951, lived in Woodford Green, the seat of his political adversary, Winston Churchill. A Blue Plaque records the fact on a house in Monkhams Avenue.
Sylvia Pankhurst lived in Woodford Green from 1924 to 1956, originally in the High Road, and from 1933 in Charteris Road. In 1935, Pankhurst commissioned and dedicated a memorial in Woodford High Road to the victims of Italian aerial bombing in Ethiopia, known as the Anti-Air War Memorial.
Sports teams
Cricket
Woodford Green Cricket Club was founded in 1735 and is the oldest cricket club in the world that still plays on the original ground alongside the High Road. The club has teams for all age groups with the senior teams playing in the Shepherd Neame Essex League.Athletics
is one of the leading British athletics clubs and is based at Ashton Fields. The club topped Division 1 of the British Athletics League for the first time in 2005.Outdoor fitness
Woodford Green is surrounded by forests, lakes, country parks and open spaces. This help make Woodford Green a great place to enjoy various outdoor fitness activities. There are ; , and .Education
Primary schools
- Avon House School
- Churchfields Junior School
- Bancroft's Preparatory School
- Ray Lodge Primary School
- St Antony's Catholic Primary School
- St Aubyn's School
- Woodford Green Preparatory School
- Wells Primary School
- St. Joseph's Convent School
- Roding Primary School
Secondary schools
- Bancroft's School, Woodford Green,
- Trinity Catholic High School
- Woodbridge High School
- Woodford County High School for Girls
Special needs schools
- Hatton School
Notable people
- Clement Attlee, Labour Prime Minister
- Nick Browne, cricketer
- Philip Burnell, cricketer
- Winston Churchill, Prime Minister
- Harris Dickinson, actor.
- James Hilton, author
- Alfred Horsley Hinton, photographer
- Stuart Kuttner, managing editor of the News of the World
- Barry Lamb, experimental musician, composer
- Louisa Leaman, author
- Michael Norgrove, boxer
- Kele Okereke, Bloc Party musician
- Sylvia Pankhurst, suffragette
- Tony Robinson, actor and TV personality
- Alan Thurlow, organist
- Kate Williams, actress, Woodford resident during the making of the TV series Love Thy Neighbour
Transport and locale
The A104 runs through Woodford Green and forms its High Street while Chigwell Road, the A113, runs along the east side with Broadmead Road connecting the two. Woodford Green is served by Woodford tube station.
Various London Buses routes also connect Woodford Green with nearby major towns:
Route Number | Route | Serving in Woodford Green | Operator |
20 | Walthamstow Central station to Debden tube station via Whipps Cross, Loughton | Woodford New Road, High Road | Go-Ahead London |
179 | Chingford Station to Ilford High Road via South Woodford | Whitehall Road, High Road, High Road Woodford Green | Stagecoach London |
275 | St James Street railway station to Barkingside Tesco via Highams Park, Woodford | Chingford Lane, Broadmead Road, Woodford Station | Stagecoach London |
397 | South Chingford Sainsbury's to Debden Broadway via Chingford, Loughton | Whitehall Road | CT Plus |
W13 | Woodford Wells Horse & Well to Leytonstone station via Wanstead | High Road, High Road Woodford Green | CT Plus |
N55 Night Bus | Woodford Wells Horse & Well to Oxford Circus via Leytonstone | High Road, High Road Woodford Green | Stagecoach London |
;Nearest places
- Chingford
- South Woodford
- Woodford Bridge
- Woodford Wells
- Wanstead
- Loughton
- Leytonstone
- Roding Valley
- Barkingside
- Chigwell
- Buckhurst Hill
- Walthamstow
- Highams Park
- Clayhall