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In 1870-72, John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales described Buckhurst Hill like this:
BUCKHURST, a chapelry in Chigwell and Loughton parishes, Essex; on the Eastern Counties railway, adjacent to Epping forest, 9¾ miles NE of Bishopsgate, London. It has a station, of the name of BuckhurstHill, on the railway, and a post office, of the name of Buckhurst under Woodford, London, N. E. It was constituted in 1838. Pop., 902. Houses, 147. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Rochester. Value, £300.* Patron, the Vicar of Chigwell. The church is modern and neat; and there is an Independent chapel.
Buckhurst Hill is now part of EPPING FOREST District. Click here for graphs and data of how EPPING FOREST has changed over two centuries. For statistics about Buckhurst Hill itself, go to Statistics.
How to reference this page:
GB Historical GIS / University of Portsmouth, History of Buckhurst Hill, in Epping Forest and Essex | Map and description, A Vision of Britain through Time.
URL: https://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/place/1029
Date accessed: 08th April 2026
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