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• If you are looking for hills, rivers, castles... or pretty much anything other than the "places" where people live and lived, you need to look in our collection of Historical Gazetteers. This contains the complete text of three gazetteers published in the late 19th century — over 90,000 entries. Although there are no descriptive gazetteer entries for placenames exactly matching your search term (other than those already linked to "places"), the following entries mention "WALTHAM FOREST":

  Place name	County	Entry	Source
  CHICHESTER	Sussex	Waltham, and East Wittering; the vicarages of Aldingbourne, Bosham, Boxgrove, Chidham, Compton, Donnington, Eartham, East Dean, Westhampnett, Hunston, East Marden, North Mundham, Oving, Sidlesham, Stoughton, Westbourne, West Dean, and West Wittering; and the p. curacies of Appledram, Up-Marden, Funtington, Midlavant, Lordington, and Stansted. The deanery of Chichester comprises the livings of Chichester city; and the rectories of Brede, Crowhurst, New Fishborne, and Rumbolds-Wyke. The deanery of Midhurst comprises the rectories of Barlavington, Bepton, Bignor, Bodecton or Burton, Coates, Duncton, Egdean, Elsted, Graffham, Hardham, Iping, Lurgasall, Lynch, North Chapel, Petworth, Selham, Stedham, Heyshot, Stopham, Sutton, Terwick, Tillington, Trotton, Woolbeding	Imperial
  Epping	Essex	Forest, 16 miles NE. of London, 5319 ac., pop. 2343; P.O., T.O., 1 Bank. Market-day, Friday ; has cattle fairs, and sends large quantities of dairy produce to the London market. Epping Forest (formerly Essex or Waltham	Bartholomew
  EPPING	Essex	forest in Essex. The town stands in the forest, on a rising-ground, near the source of the river Roding, 5½ miles-NNE of Loughton; has now a station on the Ongar railway; is irregularly built; comprises one long wide street; is a seat of petty sessions, and a polling-place; and has a head post office, ‡ a chief inn, a town hall of 1865, a church, and three dissenting chapels. It is well supplied with water from land-springs; it attracts visitors and residents, in the summer months, on account of its pleasant and healthy situation	Imperial
  ESSEX	Essex	Waltham-Abbey. The number of market-towns is 22. The chief seats are Navestock, Easton, Audley-End, Tirling, Mistley, Thorndon, Danbury, Hi-Hall, Dale-Hall, Be-House, Berechurch, Boreham, Hadleigh, Dagenham, Leytonstone, Felixstow, High Beach, Newton, Suttons, Walthamstow, Mesner-Hall, Roydon, Twinsted, Albyns, Belchamp, Birch-Hall, Bower-Hall, Bradwell, Colne-Park, Coopersale, Copped-Hall, Coptfold, Dewshall, Faulkbourn, Fitzwalter-Park, Forest	Imperial
  Hampshire, Hants, or Southampton	Hampshire	Forest, and in the SE. are the Forests of Bere and Waltham Chase. The Avon, Exe, Test, Itching, and Hamble	Bartholomew
  HIGH BEECH	Essex	Waltham Abbey parish, Essex; in Epping forest, 2 miles E of the boundary with Middlesex, and 3¼ SE of Waltham	Imperial
  KENT	Kent	KENT , a maritime county; bounded on the N, by the Thames and the German ocean; on the E, by the	Imperial
  LONDON	London London	LONDON , the metropolis of England. The centre of it is London city or London proper; the centre of that is	Imperial
  LOUGHTON	Essex	forest, and on the Stratford and Ongar railway, 1 mile W of the river Roding, and 4 SSW of Epping: consists chiefly of one long street; and has a station with telegraph on the railway, a post office under London NE, and a station of the metropolitan police. The parish comprises 3,170 acres. Real property, £7,971. Pop. in 1851,1,237; in 1861,1,527. Houses, 308. The property is much subdivided. The manor belonged to Waltham	Imperial
  PINNERS-GREEN	Essex	PINNERS-GREEN , a place in the S W of Essex; in Epping forest, 2 miles S E of Waltham-Abbey.	Imperial
  Waltham Forest		Waltham Forest , old name of Epping.	Bartholomew

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